Chelsea Piers Aquatic Club had a strong second day of the 2018 Speedo Sectionals Championship Series in Ithaca, NY. They currently lead the team scores with 380 points, followed by Crimson (192), Seacoast (152), Nys Aquatics (138) and Schenectady-Saratoga (137).<\/p>\n
Full results can be found on Meet Mobile \u2013 2018 EZ North Speedo Short Course Sectionals.<\/p>\n
Chelsea Piers\u2019 Bridget Semenuk <\/strong>won the women\u2019s 200 free by over two seconds, stopping the clock in 1:47.05. Fourteen-year-old Natalie Mannion <\/strong>of Commonwealth took second in 1:49.28 and Chelsea Piers\u2019 Alexandra Truwit <\/strong>was third in 1:49.70.<\/p>\n Chelsea Piers\u2019 Cole Pierce <\/strong>won a close men\u2019s 200 free battle, getting his hand to the wall first in 1:40.63. North Shore\u2019s Jared Daigle <\/strong>(1:40.81) was close behind in second and Pioneer Valley\u2019s Eric Eastham <\/strong>(1:40.87) finished third.<\/p>\n A close women\u2019s 100 breast race went to Schenectady-Saratoga\u2019s Olivia Jack, <\/strong>who is committed to swim at Penn State, with a quick 1:00.58. Chelsea Piers\u2019 Katherine Douglass <\/strong>was right behind in 1:00.62 for second and her teammate Mary Christensen <\/strong>took third in 1:00.65.<\/p>\n Crimson\u2019s Mitchell Gariepy, <\/strong>who will swim at South Carolina this fall, cruised to first in the men\u2019s 100 breast after touching the wall in 55.20. Second went to Seacoast\u2019s Marc Bourgeois <\/strong>(56.43) and third went to Adirondack Bluefins\u2019\u00a0Ryan Board <\/strong>(56.44).<\/p>\n Not too long after taking second in the women\u2019s 100 breast, Douglass found herself on top of the podium after winning the 100 fly in 53.97. Victor\u2019s Megan Deuel <\/strong>swam to second in 54.03 and Crimson\u2019s Andrea Wei <\/strong>wound up third in 54.13.<\/p>\n New York Sharks\u2019 Chauncey Nicholas <\/strong>was the only swimmer to crack 50-seconds in the men\u2019s 100 fly, doing so in a winning time of 49.92. Chelsea Piers\u2019 Tyler Sicignano <\/strong>was second in 50.03 and Stingrays’\u00a0Jake McBride <\/strong>was third in 50.16.<\/p>\n Blue Devil\u2019s Miku Takabayashi, <\/strong>who will soon swim at Brown, earned the gold in the women\u2019s 400 IM after dropping over five seconds from her entry time to post a final time of 4:19.24. Seacoast\u2019s Emma Whall <\/strong>grabbed the silver in 4:24.22 and bronze went to Crimson\u2019s Alexandra Robertson <\/strong>in 4:26.21.<\/p>\n After taking second in the men\u2019s 200 free earlier tonight, future Michigan Wolverine Daigle won the men\u2019s 400 IM in 3:56.64. New York Sharks\u2019 Matthew Styczen <\/strong>finished second in 3:57.83 and Weston\u2019s Nathan Katz <\/strong>took third in 3:59.67 as the only swimmers under the four-minute barrier.<\/p>\n Schenectady-Saratoga\u2019s Olivia Jack <\/strong>(1:53.40), Elaine Lipkin <\/strong>(1:54.20), Mary Conway <\/strong>(1:51.98) and Yunfan Dong <\/strong>(1:55.06) won the women\u2019s 4×200 free relay in 7:34.64. Crimson finished second in 7:38.49 and Commonwealth was third in 7:39.83.<\/p>\n Adirondack Bluefins\u2019 Liam Picozzi <\/strong>(1:42.52), Timothy Maggs <\/strong>(1:43.16), Zachary Boekeloo <\/strong>(1:45.56) and Everett McNair <\/strong>(1:43.30) won the men\u2019s 4×200 free relay in 6:54.54. Morris County was second in 6:56.21 and Eastern Express finished third in 6:57.60.<\/p>\n Prelims for the third day of competition begin tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. EST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chelsea Piers Aquatic Club had a strong second day of the 2018 Speedo Sectionals Championship Series in Ithaca, NY. They currently lead the team scores with 380 points, followed by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":296608,"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":[49268,49269,49262],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-meet-coverage","category-featured-slider","category-meet-recaps"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n