BALDWINSVILLE – It might prove very difficult for the Baldwinsville boys swim team to top what it did last winter, claiming the program’s first-ever Section III Class A championship.

This is especially the case since so many of the Bees’ top swimmers who made that feat possible, including Mikey White, Matt Lange and Lucas Clay, have graduated.

Yet B’ville is already in the win column for the 2024-25 season, getting there last Wednesday night when it put together a 49-44 victory over Fulton at the Baker High School pool.

One key swimmer that has returned is Alex Nicita, and he started his campaign going one minute 54.11 seconds to win the 200-yard freestyle.

Mason Stever swept the sprints, first going 22.43 seconds in the 50 freestyle as Owen Nizar was third in 25.56 to go with a second (1:03.97) in the 100 backstgroke.

Then Stever claimed the 100 freestyle in 51.69, more than five seconds quicker than any of his challengers. Not only that, but Stever joined Nicita, Nizar and Brayden Anders to go 1:41.70 and win the 200 freestyle relay

Marco VanCour was first in the 500 freestyle in 5:37.48, while Adrian Clay got the victory in the 100 breaststroke in 1:03.55, with Nicita second (1:08.55) exactly five seconds behind.
Clay also took second in the 200 individual medley in 2:16.31, while Alex Atherton, in the 100 butterfly, was a close second in 59.94 seconds to Fulton’s Aidan Caples in 59.59.

Closing out the meet, Clay, Nicita, VanCour and Atherton won the 400 freestyle relay in a quick 3:41.09 to Fulton’s 3:45.80. In the 200 medley relay Atherton, Clay, Nizar and VanCour went 1:50.03 behind the Red Dragons’ 1:48.25.

A big test awaits B’ville this Wednesday when it takes on Jamesville-DeWitt/CBA at 5 p.m.