LIVERPOOL – Only the Jamesville-DeWitt girls swim team was able to put together a perfect mark within the Salt City Athletic Conference, capping off this run with its three most important victories.
After knocking Fayetteville-Manlius from the unbeaten ranks and topping Christian Brothers Academy as a follow-up, the Red Rams completed this trifecta Wednesday night by going to Liverpool and defeating the Warriors 98-83.
As they had done all season, the quartet of Thearyn Wales, Evelyn Jones, Cora Bright and Maggie Lister provided leadership for J-D and, between them, combining to win seven of the eight individual races.
Wales went two minutes 23.65 seconds to prevail in the 200-yard individual medley, with Lister (2:29.48) edging Brielle Bryant’s 2:29.72 to make it 1-2 for the Rams. Then in the 100 backstroke Wales again stood out, going 1:02.34, with Bryant second in 1:08.75 edging Emma Paul’s 1:09.40 in third place.
Jones continued her sprint success in two duels with Liverpool’s Arianna Kuznia. The 50 freestyle went 26.36 seconds for Jones to 26.61 for Kuznia and the 100 freestyle was even closer, Jones needing 58.03 to top Kuznia (58.10) by seven-hundredths of a second.
Bright pulled out the 200 freestyle 2:10.10 to the 2:10.19 from Elizabeth Manley and, in the 500 freestyle, led a top-three J-D sweep, winning in 6:01.42 as Sofia Koenig (6:12.62) and Marley Taylor (6:23.26) followed.
Lister went 1:14.22 to win a tight 100 breaststroke over Ruby Brown (1:16.27) and, with Jones, Paul and Maria Fisher, was victorious in the 200 medley relay breaking the two-minute mark at 1:59.83.
Jones, Wales, Nora Barnello and Lila Schroth paired to take the 200 freestyle relay in 1:49 flat, with Barnello third in the 200 freestyle and Schroth third in the 50 freestyle as Mary Jane Scott got third in the 100 butterfly.
Fisher was second (1:08.84) to Natalie Thompson (1:06.84) in the 100 butterfly as Kayla McQuaid earned 266.55 points in diving but was edged by June Piorkowski’s 270.25, reversing the order of the Oct. 19 Burgos Invitational that McQuaid won with 457.90 points to Piorkowski’s 447.55.
