Delaware Swim Team had a phenomenal day three at the Speedo Sectionals in Christiansburg. They lead the girl’s, boy’s, and combined team score with one day remaining.<\/p>\n
757 Swim’s\u00a0Joelle Vereb\u00a0<\/strong>(25.48),\u00a0Colby Hurt\u00a0<\/strong>(29.90),\u00a0Sofia Long\u00a0<\/strong>(25.03), and\u00a0Abigail Larson\u00a0<\/strong>(22.26) won the girl’s 200 medley relay in 1:42.67. Golden Ram took second in 1:43.72 and Nation’s Capital’s\u00a0took third in 1:45.36.<\/p>\n Delaware’s\u00a0Jacob Johnson\u00a0<\/strong>(23.09),\u00a0Matthew Otto\u00a0<\/strong>(25.64),\u00a0Connor Sweeney\u00a0<\/strong>(22.59),\u00a0Alec Menzer\u00a0<\/strong>(20.81) won the boy’s 200 medley relay in 1:32.13. Egg Harbor finished second in 1:33.22 and Lancaster finished third in 1:34.61.<\/p>\n Radnor’s\u00a0Morgan Liberto\u00a0<\/strong>dropped over two seconds to win the girl’s 200 fly in 2:01.16. Nation’s Capital’s\u00a0Madeline Laporte\u00a0<\/strong>took second in 2:01.92 and Peters Township’s\u00a0Abigail Hay\u00a0<\/strong>finished third in 2:02.68.<\/p>\n Delaware’s\u00a0Jacob Johnson\u00a0<\/strong>dominated the boy’s 200 fly, winning by nearly four seconds in 1:46.78. His teammate\u00a0Connor Sweeney\u00a0<\/strong>swam to second in 1:50.35 and Golden Ram’s\u00a0Matthew Magness\u00a0<\/strong>finished third in 1:50.79.<\/p>\n Nation’s Capital’s\u00a0Katelyn Mack\u00a0<\/strong>swam to first place in the girl’s 50 free, touching the wall in 22.77. Swimming unattached for Virginia Tech,\u00a0Maggie Gruber\u00a0<\/strong>took second in 22.86 and 757 Swim’s\u00a0Abigail Larson\u00a0<\/strong>took third in 23.05.<\/p>\n Ti-Hampton’s\u00a0David Curtiss\u00a0<\/strong>won gold in the boy’s 50 free, stopping the clock in 20.60. Coast Guard Blue’s\u00a0Parker Harp\u00a0<\/strong>finished second in 21.03 and Egga Harbor’s\u00a0Justin Liu\u00a0<\/strong>completed the top three in 21.14.<\/p>\n Fox Chapel’s\u00a0Bailey Bonnett\u00a0<\/strong>cruised to first in the girl’s 200 breast in 2:12.62, three seconds ahead of the field. Delaware’s\u00a0Olivia Paoletti\u00a0<\/strong>took second in 2:15.28 and Golden Ram’s\u00a0Heather Maccausland\u00a0<\/strong>rounded out the top three in 2:15.41.<\/p>\n Delaware’s\u00a0Matthew Otto\u00a0<\/strong>was the only swimmer under the two-minute barrier in the boy’s 200 breast, winning by nearly six seconds in 1:59.06. Severna Park’s\u00a0Jackson Schultz\u00a0<\/strong>swam to second in 2:04.93 and Egg Harbor’s\u00a0Brian McGroarty\u00a0<\/strong>finished third in 2:05.25.<\/p>\n Liberto won her second event of the evening, this time taking gold in the girl’s 100 back with a 54.90. 757 Swim’s\u00a0Joelle Vereb\u00a0<\/strong>took second in 55.10 and Columbia’s\u00a0Alyssa Vannetta\u00a0<\/strong>took third in 55.78.<\/p>\n Johnson also won his second race of the night, just out-touching the runner-up in the boy’s 100 back in 49.58. Egg Harbor’s\u00a0Cristian Bell\u00a0<\/strong>finished a close second in 49.72 and Coast Guard Blue’s\u00a0Connor Killion\u00a0<\/strong>took third in 50.28.<\/p>\n After her win in the mile yesterday, Egg Harbor’s\u00a0Maggie Wallace\u00a0<\/strong>won the girl’s 500 free tonight in 4:49.56. Radnor’s\u00a0Anna Kalandadze\u00a0<\/strong>finished second in 4:51.10 and Egg Harbor’s\u00a0Amanda Nunan\u00a0<\/strong>rounded out the top three in 4:52.52.<\/p>\n Also following up his mile win rom last night, Lancaster’s\u00a0Arthur Markley\u00a0<\/strong>won the boy’s 500 free in 4:29.42.\u00a0Colin Murphy\u00a0<\/strong>took second in 4:31.03 and Magness took third in 4:34.00.<\/p>\n Golden Ram’s\u00a0Erika Martin\u00a0<\/strong>(54.06),\u00a0Ann Carozza\u00a0<\/strong>(51.33),\u00a0Camryn Carter\u00a0<\/strong>(51.48), and Maccausland (48.96) won a very close girl’s 400 free relay in 3:25.83. 757 Swim took a close second in 3:25.90 and Nation’s Capital took third in 3:28.29.<\/p>\n Delaware’s Johnson (46.18),\u00a0Emils Gustav Jurcik\u00a0<\/strong>(46.29),\u00a0Jeb Darhower\u00a0<\/strong>(45.62), and\u00a0Alex Menzer\u00a0<\/strong>(46.08) cruised to first in the boy’s 400 free relay in 3:04.17. Nation’s Capital finished second in 3:06.86 and Lancaster swam to third in 3:07.93.<\/p>\n All results can be found on Meet Mobile-2017 EZ Southern Region Speedo Champs Series.<\/p>\n Tomorrow’s events will include the 200 free relay, 200 back, 100 free, 200 IM, 400 medley relay, boy’s 1650, and girl’s 1000 free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Delaware Swim Team had a phenomenal day three at the Speedo Sectionals in Christiansburg. 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