ONONDAGA COUNTY – Each of the area’s three high school girls swim teams were at or near the top of their respective league standings heading into the month of October, with Fayetteville-Manlius and Jamesville-DeWitt set to meet Tuesday night at the Red Rams’ pool.
J-D was 5-0 and had seen its top diver, Kayla McQuaid, win the Burgos Dive Invitational Sept. 30 at Nottingham with a score of 456.55 points that automatically qualified her for the state championship meet for the second year in a row.
And the Red Rams followed it up by taking on Skaneateles last Tuesday night and rolling its way to a 95-81 victory over the Lakers led by the likes of Thearyn Wales.
In two minutes, 5.60 seconds, Wales beat the field in the 200-yard freestyle and, in the 100 backstroke, gained another first-place finish in 1:05.73 right after helping Evelyn Jones, Margaret Lister and Mary Jane Scott win the 200 freestyle relay in 1:51.89.
On her own, Jones took the 100 freestyle in 57.47 seconds to Lister’s 1:00.23, though it was Lister winning the 50 freestyle in 27.56. Leah Abrams was second in the 500 freestyle in 5:57.40 and helped the Rams win the 400 freestyle relay in 4:21.59.
For Christian Brothers Academy, whose lone blemish was a Sept. 12 defeat to F-M, things continued to hum last Tuesday in a 93-49 victory over Syracuse City at Le Moyne College.
Anna Fuller led the way, winning the shortest and longest events on the card. Fuller swam the 50 freestyle in 27.59 seconds to Zoe Thayer’s 27.74 and then, in the 500 freestyle, prevailed in 5:56.82.
Thayer would get her title in the 100 freestyle, going 1:00.26 to beat out Jenna Filhan’s 1:01.90, while in the 200 IM it was Filhan, in 2:27.81, pulling away from Kayla Ceclia’s 2:40.97.
Ella Zaryski was victorious in the 200 freestyle in 2:06.62, with Madison Ceclia second in 2:18.40. Myli Petrocci earned 194.85 points in diving after her sixth-place finish (319.6 points) in the Burgos event that beat every other local diver except McQuaid.
F-M, coming off its big Sept. 27 win over Liverpool in a first-place SCAC Metro division showdown, saw Saturday’s meet with West Genesee canceled and would have a long rest period before Tuesday’s showdown with J-D.
