The MVP Gators marched on toward next Saturday's battle of the undefeated Division 4 teams by taking a bite out of the Pinecrest Piranhas by a 253-167 score. The Gators move to 3-0 and will host the 3-0 Hunt Valley Stingrays in the biggest swim sporting event of the year (with the possible exception of the London Olympics).
Once again, the Gators won all four strokes, posting a 57-33 win in freestyle. MVP topped that with a 60-30 win in backstroke to push the lead to 117-63 after the two strokes. Breaststroke was much closer at 49-41, but still MVP took the stroke. The closest stroke was butterfly, a 47-43 win for the Gators. At that point, the score was 213-147, and MVP had already won the meet (it takes 211 points to win -- 210 is a tie and 209 is a loss).
The Gators won nine out of twelve relays, and looked ready for the Divisional Relays this Wednesday night at Mosby Woods.
MVP had an amazing seven sweeps (great, more for me to type!). The 9-10 boys got the party started in freestyle with a sweep by Nick Dupuis, Andrei Zaitsev, Clark Bayer. The same age group swept back, led by Andrei, and joined by Joseph Ienzi and Nicky McBroom. The girls started sweeps with the 15-18 backstroke, led by Anna Fracasso and joined by Julia Benson and Kaila Stein. Anna is 14 and Kaila is 13, so it was a swim-up sweep. The 9-10 boys swept breaststroke too, led by Parker Blondin, Joseph Ienzi, and Ben Rutherford.
The 8 & under boys swept butterfly, thanks to Connor Dunn, Kenny Krogh, and Boede Offringa. The 9-10 boys swept fly thanks to Nick Dupuis, Parker Blondin, and Clark Bayer. The 15-18 girls closed out the final sweep on the final individual event of the day, as Sara Bertram, Emily Walzl, and Leigh Orleans did the honors (Emily was also swimming up).
For those reading closely, the 9-10 boys won every point possible -- 36 out of 36 in individual events, plus another 5 in the relay -- for a total of 41 points from that group. Pretty darn impressive.
Gator heroes who swam up were plentiful on Saturday -- 12 year old Dom Heratsch swam 13-14 free, 14 year old Sarah Jones in 15-18 free, 12 year old Liam Orr in 13-14 backstroke, 14 year old Anna Fracasso and 13 year old Kaila Stein in 15-18 back, 12 year old Noah Hannam in 13-14 breaststroke and 13-14 fly, 10 year old Nicky McBroom in 11-12 fly, 12 year old Ian Neal in 13-14 fly, and 14 year old Emily Walzl in 15-18 fly. Juliette Fore also gets hero nod -- she had been throwing up on Friday after being sick most of the week, but insisted on swimming, and took first in breaststroke.
The race of the week was turned in by Jessie Bricker. She took first in 50 freestyle by just 0.08 seconds ahead of the Pinecrest swimmer. (Race of the week is determined by the closest MVP win over an opposing swimmer.) Three other freestyle races were close -- Cage Theriot, Holly Jansen, and Kevin Adams-Mardi all held off their opposition by 0.35 seconds.
Double Gator winners were Nick Dupuis (free and fly), Cameron Morey (free and back), Holly Jansen (free and breaststroke), Sara Bertram (free and fly), and Cassidy Bayer (back and fly).
Single Gator winners were James Piland (free), Cage Theriot (free), Kevin Adams-Mardi (free), Jessie Bricker (free), Kenny Krogh (back), Andrei Zaitsev (back), Mac Brotherton (back), Torie Bolger (back), Anna Fracasso (back), Charlie Ruppe (breaststroke), the aforementioned Juliette Fore (breaststroke), Parker Blondin (breaststroke), Sarah Jones (breaststroke), Jayne Orleans (breaststroke), Connor Dunn (fly), and Emily Makin (fly). Overall, Gators won 26 out of 40 races.
Second place points were scored by Charlie Ruppe (free), Andrei Zaitsev (free), Sheridan Phalen (free), Sarah Jones (free), Connor Dunn (back), Emily Makin (back), Joseph Ienzi (back and breaststroke), Kevin Adams-Mardi (back), Molly Cabral (back), Cyrus Adams-Mardi (back), Julia Benson (back), Will Friedman (breaststroke), Lily Penn (breaststroke), Kaila Stein (breaststroke), Leigh Orleans (breaststroke), Kenny Krogh (fly), Parker Blondin (fly), Olivia Blondin (fly), Anna Fracasso (fly), and Emily Walzl (fly). The Gators earned second place points in 21 out of 40 races.
Third place points were earned by Clark Bayer (free and fly), Mac Brotherton (free), Sean Jansen (free and breaststroke), Mollie Passacantando (free), Cyrus Adams-Mardi (free), Cage Theriot (back), Nicky McBroom (back), Taylor Makin (back), Kaila Stein (back), Ben Rutherford (breaststroke), Sheridan Phalen (breaststroke), Josh Stein (breaststroke), Boede Offringa (fly), Abigail Dittman (fly), Liam Orr (fly), Emma Jones (fly), Mollie Passacantando (fly), and Leigh Orleans (fly). Overall, MVPers took 20 out of 40 third place points.
Next on the agenda -- the battle of the undefeateds.
No comments:
Post a Comment