ONONDAGA COUNTY – One more week of regular-season action remains for area high school girls swim teams before they focus their energies on the Section III championships.
During last Tuesday’s meet, Fayetteville-Manlius prevailed again, topping Oswego/Mexico 97-89 in a contest that featured plenty of strong individual talent.
On the Hornets’ side, Georgia Langan was victorious in the 100-yard freestyle in 56.73 seconds, while Elise Wratney sped to first in the 500 freestyle in 5:30.39 before she won the 100 breaststroke in 1:12.19 ahead of Lily Fowler’s 1:18.70.
Wratney had started the meet helping Cecilia Cao, Gabby Dardis and Kate Millson go 2:00.32 in the 200 medley relay. Cao went on to take second in the 50 freestyle in 26.43 seconds to the 26.21 from Oswego/Mexico’s Joscelyn Coniski, with Dardis second in the 100 backstroke in 1:07.61.
Oswego/Mexico kept things close thanks to a top-three sweep in diving, a 200 freestyle win in a quick 1:45.87 and Alexa von Holtz going 59.83 seconds in the 100 backstroke and 2:10.51 to dominate the 200 individual medley.
In fact, F-M only led by two, 79-77, before Wratney and Fowler’s 1-2 in the 100 breaststroke. And the Hornets would get the second (4:07.98) and third (4:16.64) spots in the closing 400 freestyle relay for the clinching points, though von Holtz helped Oswego/Mexico win in 3:55.69.
Meanwhile, Christian Brothers Academy went up against Skaneateles and lost, 96-90, to the Lakers, though Ella Zaryski was able to win a pair of events.
Zaryski swam the 50 freestyle in 26.08 seconds to beat Skaneateles’ Elizabeth Springer (26.56), while also taking the 100 backstroke in 1:06.31 to Springer’s 1:08.59.
Claire Krueger added a 100 breaststroke title in 1:16.39, edging the 1:16.81 from the Lakers’ Kaitlin Comer, as Sofia Kassab earned 201.52 points for first place in diving.
Elsewhere, Jenna Filhan was second in both the 200 IM (2:29.12) and 100 butterfly (1:06.65), with Zoe Thayer the runner-up in the 200 freestyle (2:15.85) and 500 freestyle (5:53.61), Krueger got second in the 100 freestyle in 1:00.22.
In the 200 medley relay, Zaryski, Krueger, Anna Fuller and Josie Lachut went 2:03.61, second to the 2:02.24 from the Lakers, and the 200 freestyle relay was even closer as Krueger, Filhan, Lachut and Madison Cecilia finished in 1:51.62, less than a second behind Skaneateles’ 1:50.84.
Two days later, CBA lost, 104-80, to Liverpool, despite a handful of individual race titles.
Filhan was first in the 200 IM in 2:27.22 to Emerson Gellert’s 2:31.25, while Krueger, in 1:16.58, held off Kerry Hunter (1:19.34) in the 100 breaststroke. In the opening 200 medley relay,
Krueger, Lachut, Anna Fuller and Sofia Ciereck got first place in 2:06.98. Filhan got second in the 100 butterfly, with Krueger second in the 100 freestyle and Fuller second in the 100 backstroke.
Jamesville-DeWitt prevailed 46-43 over Baldwinsville last Thursday led by Margaret Lister, who took first in the 200 freestyle in 2:13.64 and added a 100 freestyle victory in 1:01.77.
Thearyn Wales also prevailed twice, going 2:34.21 in the 200 IM and 1:10.52 in the 100 backstroke as Gwen Lister swam the 500 freestyle in 5:29.95. Lister, Wales, Olivia Ogata and Lila Schroth went 2:03.13 in the 200 medley relay.
Before this, the Red Rams had seen top diver Kayla McQuaid finish second in the Oct. 15 Salt City Diving Invitational at Nottingham.
Earning 402.40 points, McQuaid was only topped by the 457.90 from Cicero-North Syracuse’s Kaitlyn Carroll. Zoe McCarthy finished 15th, with Kaia Etuale 17th and CBA’s Sophia Osvoldik in 20th place.
Then, at last weekend’s Burgos Invitational, McQuaid improved to 427.85 points – and still finished second to Caroll, who won with 471.40. CBA’s Sophia Osvoldik was sixth with 316.05 and J-D’s Zoe McCarthy was ninth with 284.10, two spots ahead of teammate Kaia Etuale.
