SYRACUSE – Another big challenge awaited the Liverpool girls swim team as it traveled to Le Moyne College Tuesday night to face Christian Brothers Academy.
It proved a close, exciting meet, the issue in doubt until the final race when the Warriors won it, only to have the Brothers hang on and prevail by a score of 94-92.
Twice, Kaitlyn Thompson prevailed, swimming the 50-yard freestyle in 26.42 seconds and then taking the 100 backstroke in 1:04.92 to beat out the 1:06.59 from CBA’s Anna Fuller.
Thompson also helped in two victorious relays, pairing with Arianna Kuznia, Sarah Colwell and Elizabeth Manley to go 1:49.56 in the 200 freestyle relay and, with that same trio, beatng the Brothers’ 4:04.51 with 4:00.50 in the 400 freestyle relay.
Colwell was first in the 500 freestyle in 5:49.23 and swam the 200 freestyle in 2:09.84, a close second to Zoe Thayer’s 2:07.83. Kuznia, in 58.02 seconds, held off Thayer (58.51) in the 100 freestyle and June Pioroeski won in diving with 243.9 points.
Still, CBA getting enough top finishes to go with wins from Jenna Filhan (200 individual medley, 2:25.79), Kayla Ceclia (100 butterfly, 1:06.83) and Josie Lachut (100 breaststroke, 1:19.11) while seeing Filhan and Fuller join Madison Ceclia and Alison Sullivan to win th 200 medley relay in 2:03.05.
As this went on, Cicero-North Syracuse met Syracuse City at the Nottingham High School facility both sides call home, and the Northstars rolled to a 100-56 victory to move its record to 3-1 overall.
Leah Benedict, Kate Gucciardi, Molly Gucciardi and Cassidy Payrot each won two races. Benedict went 2:08.97 to prevail in the 200 freestyle and, later in the meet, beat the field in the 100 backstroke in 1:08.81.
As for Kate Gucciardi, she went from taking the shortest race, the 50 freestyle, in 27.30 seconds to winning the longest race, the 500 freestyle, with a clocking of 6:14.26.
Molly Gucciardi prevailed went 1:10.93 in the 100 butterfly, claimed the 100 breaststroke in 1:23.25 to Mariah Stewart’s 1:23.49 and also helped Benedict, Miranda Lenning and Addison Vavra swim the 400 freestyle relay in 4:39.04.
Payrot completed this quartet, first by earning the 200 individual medley in 2:44.09 and then by going 1:04.90 in the 100 freestyle. Sophia Sugrue earned 212.15 points on the diving board.
The meet began with Vavra, Kate Gucciardi, Bella Petralia and Adelaide Holcomb going 2:18.74 in the 200 medley relay as, in the 200 freestyle relay, Holcomb, Rose Coleman, Kate Gucciardi and Haley Swenton went 2:01.80 to the 2:02.29 from Benedict, Payrot, Petralia and Ana’Liyah Williams.
C-NS visits Skaneateles next Tuesday as Liverpool is back home to face West Genesee, each of these meets marking the regular-season finale for the Northstars and Warriors.
