There were fast swims all around at the 2016 Massachusetts High School State Championships (Division II). The Marbelhead women swam ahead of the competition to take home the title with a total of 271.5 points, while second went to Weston and their 199 points. Longmeadow finished third with 188 points.<\/p>\n
The meet kicked off with a fierce battle in the 200 Medley relay with Marblehead and Duxbury finishing a within half a second of each other. Marblehead’s\u00a0Ellie Ronan,\u00a0<\/strong>Amanda Wager, Meagan Hathaway<\/strong>, and\u00a0Kylie Cronin<\/strong> posted a combined time of 1:48.31 for first over Duxbury’s 1:48.83.<\/p>\n Longmeadow’s\u00a0Jerrica Li\u00a0<\/strong>outlasted the competition in the 200 free posting a final time of 1:50.95. Second in the event went to Hathaway (1:54.76), while Longmeadow’s\u00a0Sydney Joyce<\/strong> was third with a 1:56.23.<\/p>\n Li nabbed her second win of the meet in the 100 free with a final time of 50.27. Second in the event was Duxbury’s\u00a0Grace Ali<\/strong> with a time of 52.71, while third went to Marblehead’s\u00a0Ellie Ronan<\/strong> (53.50).<\/p>\n Julia Klier\u00a0<\/strong>of Cohasset took home the gold in the 200 IM with a final time of 2:05.83, while Marblehead’s\u00a0Grace Maguire\u00a0<\/strong>was second with a 2:07.90. Third was Duxbury’s\u00a0Mary Buckley<\/strong> (2:08.70).<\/p>\n Cronin flirted with a sub-24 in the 50 free, but stopped just shy with a final time of 24.05 for first. Bishop Stang’s\u00a0Jeannette King<\/strong> grabbed second with a 24.42, while third went to Weston’s\u00a0Katrina Angelucci<\/strong> (24.71).<\/p>\n Cronin and\u00a0Grace Ali\u00a0<\/strong>of Duxbury battled for first in the 100 fly finishing .35 seconds apart. Cronin got her hand to the wall first to stop the clock at 55.57 over Ali’s 55.92. Weston’s\u00a0Christina Chiocca\u00a0<\/strong>rounded out the top three with a 59.97 to be the only other swimmer under the one-minute mark.<\/p>\n The relay teams of Longmeadow and Weston dueled for first in the 200 free relay posting final times within .05 seconds of one another. Longmeadow’s Li,\u00a0Casey Barrett<\/strong>,\u00a0Sydney Joyce<\/strong>, and\u00a0Monika Nowak<\/strong> finished first with a final time of 1:39.28, while Weston’s Angelucci,\u00a0Katerina Georgakopoulos, Jackie Joseph<\/strong>, and\u00a0Meg Peacher\u00a0<\/strong>were a close second with 1:39.33.<\/p>\n On the men’s side it was Weston that took home the state title with an accumulated 215 points. Wayland finished as a close second with 206 points, while third went to Norwell with 202 points.<\/p>\n Matthew Quinney\u00a0<\/strong>of Belchertown and\u00a0Will Rinne<\/strong> of Norwell kept a close race in the 200 IM, finishing within .96 seconds of each other. Despite faster splits in the back half of the race from Rinne, Quinney finished first with a time of 1:56.02 over Rinne’s 1:56.98.<\/p>\n Nat Davenport\u00a0<\/strong>of Duxbury delivered a swift 21.14 to win the 50 free. Ashland’s\u00a0Roger Gu\u00a0<\/strong>was second with a 21.36, while third went to last year’s event winner\u00a0Christian Kinnon<\/strong> of Mystic Valley (21.61).<\/p>\n Davenport added a win in the 100 free with a time of 46.34. Norwell’s\u00a0Auston Ramsay\u00a0<\/strong>was second with a time of 46.86, with Gu rounding out the top three with a 46.99.<\/p>\n Johnny Williams<\/strong> of Northampton claimed a new meet record in the 100 fly with a final time of 49.03, lowering the former record of 50.11 set by Jackson Perry<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The 200 free \u00a0relay team from Duxbury, led by Davenport (21.49) turned in a first place finish with a combined time of 1:28.42. Davenport was joined by\u00a0Kevin Coghlan<\/strong> (23.08),\u00a0Brad Backlund<\/strong> (22.81), and\u00a0Michael O’Neal\u00a0<\/strong>(21.04).<\/p>\n Northampton’s\u00a0Nick Whitcomb<\/strong> and Ramsay went stroke-for-stroke in the 100 back, posting final times a slim .03 seconds apart. Whitcomb got his hand to the wall with a final time of 51.71 over Ramsay’s 51.74.<\/p>\n Other Winners:<\/p>\n There were fast swims all around at the 2016 Massachusetts High School State Championships (Division II). The Marbelhead women swam ahead of the competition to take home the title with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":48890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[67166],"class_list":["post-187681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school","tag-massachusetts-high-school-swimming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n\n