ONONDAGA COUNTY – Two weeks after it last competed, the Fayetteville-Manlius girls swim team returned to action Tuesday night, hosting Cicero-North Syracuse at Cazenovia College and honoring its seniors.
Prior to that, though, the other area teams had meets, including Jamesville-DeWitt, who went down to the final race in last Tuesday’s battle with Liverpool before falling 97-89 to the Warriors.
The Red Rams won each of the first three races, starting with a 200-yard medley relay where Claire Huyck, Sofia Bebla, Olivia Ogata and Bianca Wales went two minutes, 4.02 seconds to edge Liverpool’s 2:04.73.
Huyck went from there to taking the 200 individual medley in 2:30.39, this after Gwen Lister went to the front in the 200 freestyle in 2:04.10.
Later in the meet, Lister beat Ogata, 1:05.23 to 1:09.42, in a 1-2 J-D finish in the 100 butterfly as that pair joined Wales and Marianna Lorenzo in a 200 freestyle relay where the Rams and Warriors both finished in 1:51.29, a rare dead heat.
Huyck prevailed again in the 100 backstroke in 1:07.03, right before Lucy Heflin, in 1:17.47, topped Margaret Lister (1:21.15) in the 100 breaststroke.
Despite all this success, Liverpool hung enough second and third-place finishes to go with Aija McIntyre (218.10 points) holding off Abby McGuire (212.55) and Grace Evans (199.50) in diving, and then won the last race, the 400 freestyle relay, despite Heflin, Huyck and the Lister sisters posting 4:06.49.
Competing again Thursday at New Hartford, J-D lost again, the Spartans prevailing 101-82 led by Emma Burke, who took the 200 IM (2:16.84) and 100 butterfly (59.86 seconds) while also helping her side win the 200 medley relay.
But in the 200 freestyle relay, J-D had Heflin, Ogata, Huyck and Gwen Lister go 1:49.38 to edge New Hartford’s 1:49.52, this after Lister had finished first in the 50 freestyle in 26.29 seconds.
In the 100 breaststroke, Lister prevailed in 1:11 flat, while Huyck won the 100 backstroke in 1;08.70. McGuire picked up 218.50 points in diving, going 1-2 with Evans (184.70) as Bebla was second in the 100 freestyle in 1:00.80.
That same night, Christian Brothers Academy went to Baldwinsville and, earning its first victory of the season, topped the Bees 54-38.
At the outset, Claire Krueger, Jenna Filhan, Madison Cecilia and Josie Lachut paired up for the Brothers to take the 200 medley relay in 2:14.13.
From there, Krueger went on to win the 100 freestyle in 1:02.88, while Filhan claimed the 500 freestyle in 6:10.43 ahead of Cecilia’s 6:18.78.
Lachut beat the field in the 50 freestyle in 28.59 seconds and Mia Ludington was first in the 100 backstroke in 1:15.75 and Sophia Cicerek won the 200 freestyle in 2;18.14 . In the 200 freestyle relay, Lachut, Krueger, Cicerek and Zoe Thayer prevailed in 1:56.54.
