Fairfax Frogs Eat Up Fly, Defeat Gators

Sometimes an omen isn't all it seems.  Friday night before the Gators went to Fairfax pool to swim the Frogs, we spotted a huge frog in our backyard.  Our dog Luna spotted it too, grabbed it, and ran off with it.  We gave chase, but Luna was harder to catch than greased lightning.  The dog ate the frog.  We thought it was a good omen, but, as Freud might say, sometimes a dog eating a frog is just a dog eating a frog.

First ever gif on the Blog!  Great work by David Anderson.

The Gators had an eight point lead after the breaststroke events, but the Frogs, who eat flies, crushed it in butterfly, an opening up a 20 point lead and cruising home by winning seven of the twelve relays.  The final score was Fairfax 225, MVP 195.

Maddy churning through on freestyle

The Gators led 47-43 after freestyle, but the Frogs stormed back to win backstroke by eight points (41 MVP/49 Fairfax).  A healthy 51-39 Gator in breaststroke has MVP up 139-131 after the third event, but fly went to the Frogs by 28 points for a 170-190 deficit.  After a promising start by taking five of the first seven relays, the Gators fell back as the Frogs hopped off five straight relay victories.

A fabulous Baker boy -- great to have them back

at Mt. Vernon Park!  (Especially if they keep

scoring points!)

The Gators had four sweeps.  The 11-12 girls freestyle started it off with a Emma Jones, Claudia Theriot, and Sheridan Phalen first/second/third place respectively.  The 9-10 boys, keyed by Andrei Zaitsev's swim lowering his own team record, swept the backstroke, as Andrew Baker and Kenny Krogh joined Andrei in the sweep.  Then, three other 9-10 boys got into the act, sweeping breaststroke, as Parker Blondin, Will Friedman, and TJ Heck took first/second/third.  The 13-14 boys got the final sweep in breaststroke, as Ian Baker, Sam McBroom, and Carl Questad took the top three spots.

Liam motoring on the backstroke

The Gator Race of the Week was swum by Kevin Adams-Mardi in the 15-18 boys backstroke.  He won the race by 0.35 seconds over his Fairfax opponent.  (The Gator Race of the Week is based solely on a number -- whoever wins over their opponent by the narrowest margin).

When Colby wins by 3.65 seconds, no one

else is even in the picture!

Gator Heroes for the Week were 12 year old Jack Brunton (13-14 free and 15-18 fly), 13 year old Dom Heratsch (15-18 free), 13 year old Ian Neal (15-18 back), 13 year old Liam Orr (15-18 breaststroke), and 11 year old Brian McNamara (13-14 fly).  All of these guys swam up an age group, filling lanes for MVP and getting added A Meet experience.

Juliana grabs some air, and some points.

Double Gator winners were Cage Theriot (free and breaststroke), Andrei Zaitsev (free and back), and Emma Jones (free and fly).

See Kenny Go!

Individual Gator winners were James Piland (free), Julianna Skopp-Cardillo (free), Emily Makin (back), Gus Leyden (back), Kevin Adams-Mardi (back), Sara Bertram (back), Colby Webber (breaststroke), Parker Blondin (breaststroke), Ian Baker (breaststroke), Cyrus Adams-Mardi (breaststroke), and Cameron Morey (fly).

Emily!

Second place points were earned by Claudia Theriot (free and back), Gus Leyden (free), Mollie Passacantando (free), Cyrus Adams-Mardi (free), Maddy Bolger (free), Andrew Baker (back), Jessie Bricker (back and fly), Caroline Baker (breaststroke), Will Friedman (breaststroke), Juliana Skopp-Cardillo (breaststroke), Sean Jansen (breaststroke), Lily Penn (breaststroke), Sam McBroom (breaststroke), James Piland (fly), Emily Makin (fly), Mac Brotherton (fly), Ian Baker (fly), and Sara Bertram (fly).

Double winners like Emma can make faces if they want!

Third place points were garnered by Colby Webber (free), Andrew Baker (free), Abigail Dittman (free and back), Nick Dupuis (free), Sheridan Phalen (free and breaststroke), Cameron Morey (free), Elaina Phalen (free), Joseph Humphreys (back), Lily Palmerino (back), Kenny Krogh (back), Taylor Makin (back), Kaila Stein (back and breaststroke), Torie Bolger (back and breaststroke), Jack Klopson (breaststroke), TJ Heck (breaststroke), Olivia Blondin (breaststroke and fly), Carl Questad (breaststroke), Austin Neal (breaststroke), Katya Zaitsev (fly), and Parker Blondin (fly).

"I love the smell of relays in the morning.  It

smells like victory!" James and Lucas celebrate.

On Saturday, the Gators will host Vienna Woods, who won Division 3 two years ago.  The Woods lost in week one, so one of these two teams will come out with a win (unless the score ends up 210-210!).

A new team record earns a photo!

(from left to right): Collin, Cole, Sean, and Nick