ONONDAGA COUNTY – Though a new home facility is soon on the way, the Cicero-North Syracuse girls siwm team will, for now, continue to commute to all of its practices and meets.
Calling Nottingham High School its home base, the Northstars would travel to Baldwinsville for the Sept. 1 opener and needed its depth to overcome fine Bees individual efforts in a 55-39 victory.
Kate Gucciardi and Cassidy Svoboda each won a pair of individual races. Gucciardi went two minute, 13.08 seconds in the 200-yard freestyle before going 59.77 seconds to win the 100 freestyle.
Svoboda won, 27.17 seconds to 27.34, over B’ville’s Mia Rinko in the 50 freestyle, and then took the 100 breaststroke in 1:20.98 as Leah Benedict won the 100 butterfly in 1:11.14.
In the 200 medley relay, Gucciardi, Svoboda, Benedict and Kaitlyn Carroll prevailed in 2:01.60 before a 200 freestyle relay where that same quartet finished in 1:50.53. B’ville standout Eva Smith won the 200 individual medley 2:17.93 and tore through the 100 backstroke in 1:04.24.
Skaneateles visited Nottingham to face the Northstars exactly a week later, and it proved a close meet, but the Northstars fell to the Lakers 94-91.
Gucciardi took first in the 100 butterfly in 1:06.79 and was second in the 200 IM, while Benedict won the 500 freestyle in 6:10.94 to go with a second in the 200 freestyle, and Lawrence claimed the 100 backstroke in 1:09.34.
Pairing up in the 200 freestyle relay, Svoboda, Gucciardi, Benedict and Rose Coleman got the victory in 1:48.35 after Carroll picked up 262.00 points in diving.
However, Skaneateles got wins from Alice Spaulding in the 100 freestyle (55.76 seconds) and 100 breaststroke (1:14.12) and claimed the last race, the 400 freestyle relay, in 4:09.40.
Coleman took second in the 50 and 100 freestyle, while in the 200 medley relay Carroll, Benedict, Gucciardi and Svoboda were a close second in 2:01.50 to the Lakers’ 2:00.21.
