At Saturday’s CIF-San Joaquin Section meet Rio Americano scored 251 points to win the boys meet, 20 ahead of Granite Bay with 231. Oak Ridge swept the relay titles. St. Francis totaled 254 points for a girls team victory while Del Oro was runner up with 206 points.\u00a0Four girls’ Section records came down while two boys’ marks fell.<\/p>\n
Oak Ridge’s sophomore\u00a0Colby Mefford\u00a0<\/strong>won the 200 freestyle in 1:37.57, picking up where his older brother\u00a0Bryce\u00a0<\/strong>left off last year, when he won the event in Section record time (1:34.93). Jesuit’s\u00a0Hayden Johnson\u00a0<\/strong>was also under 1:40, in 1:39.98.<\/p>\n Mefford’s freshman teammate\u00a0Ben Dillard\u00a0<\/strong>added to the golds with a 1:48.05 200 IM, only .04 faster than Jesuit’s\u00a0Will Roberts\u00a0<\/strong>in 1:48.09. Dillard posted a 54.31 to win the 100 breaststroke ahead of\u00a0Andrew Britton\u00a0<\/strong>of Joseph A Gregori in 54.82.<\/p>\n Bella Vista’s\u00a0Finn O’Haimhirgin\u00a0<\/strong>won the 50 freestyle in 20.59, a tenth faster than\u00a0Tim Lee\u00a0<\/strong>(20.69) of Vanden. O’Haimhirgin and Lee went one-two in the 100 free as well in times of 44.49 and 44.67.<\/p>\n Pioneer’s\u00a0Connor Daniels\u00a0<\/strong>got to the wall in 4:26.48 for the 500 freestyle title. Johnson was second (4:30.37).<\/p>\n C.K. McClatchy’s\u00a0Luca Urlando\u00a0<\/strong>set a section record in the 100 fly. The sophomore touched in 47.14, sneaking under the 47.19 set by\u00a0Bryce Mefford in 2017. Urlando also slashed seven tenths off his own 100 back section record, finishing in 46.83. Mefford was runner up (49.03). Urlando also posted two noteworthy relay leadoff splits (a 20.43 in the 200 freestyle relay and a 44.47 on the 400 freestyle relay- both of those times would have won the individual events).<\/p>\n Dillard,\u00a0Seth Konig<\/strong>,\u00a0Jonathan Chu<\/strong>, and\u00a0Evan McCormick\u00a0<\/strong>won the 400 freestyle relay for Oak Ridge in 3:05.68. In the 200 medley relay the team used Mefford, Dillard, Konig, and\u00a0Terry Chen\u00a0<\/strong>to power to victory in 1:32.39. Mefford, Lee, Chen, and McCormick were a 1:24.56 for 200 fresstyle relay gold.<\/p>\n Davis High School was well ahead of the competition as\u00a0Zoe Cosgrove<\/strong>,\u00a0Natalie Bercutt<\/strong>,\u00a0Mia Motekaitis<\/strong>, and\u00a0Cody Hargadon\u00a0<\/strong>swam a 1:40.99 to win the 200 medley relay. That time destroyed the section record of 1:43.06 set by Rio Americano last year.<\/p>\n Motekaitis then won the 200 freestyle in 1:48.25, just edging\u00a0Halladay Kinsey\u00a0<\/strong>of Rio Americano in 1:48.69. Kinsey prevailed in the 100 fly, finishing in 53.59 to Motekaitis’ 54.99. Kinsey was just .08 shy of the Section record. Kinsey’s teammate\u00a0Lizzie Menzmer\u00a0<\/strong>finished third (55.11).<\/p>\n Granite Bay’s\u00a0Chloe Clark\u00a0<\/strong>broke two minutes to win the 200 IM in 1:58.29, lowering her own Section record set last year. She also won the 100 back with a 53.21, .02 faster than her own Section record..<\/p>\n Country Day’s\u00a0Amalie Fackenthal\u00a0<\/strong>sprinted ahead of the competition with a 22.89 50 freestyle. She was also first to the wall in the 100 free (49.13).<\/p>\n Davis’ Cosgrove showed her versatility, going from relay backstroker to 500 free champion with a time of 4:55.37. Cosgrove was runner up in the 100 back (54.35).<\/p>\n Fackenthal,\u00a0Rebecca Waterson<\/strong>,\u00a0Sydney Turner<\/strong>, and\u00a0Athena Lin\u00a0<\/strong>won a close 200 freestyle relay for Country Day in 1:35.33, just .01 away from the Section record, set by Rio Americano in 2013. Rio Americano was second in 1:35.55.<\/p>\n Lodi’s\u00a0Gianni Pitto\u00a0<\/strong>knocked nearly two seconds off her prelims time to out touch Christian Brothers’\u00a0Kristina Murphy\u00a0<\/strong>to win the 100 breaststroke, 1:01.66 to 1:01.85. Pitto took down Murphy’s section record, a 1:01.83 set in 2017.<\/p>\n In the 400 freestyle relay Rio Americano got to the wall four seconds ahead of the next best team as\u00a0Kailee Nabeta<\/strong>, Kinsey, Menzmer, and\u00a0Tina Reuter\u00a0<\/strong>posted a 3:25.42.<\/p>\n Full results available on Meet Mobile: 2018 CIF SAC-JOAQUIN SECTION.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At Saturday’s CIF-San Joaquin Section meet Rio Americano scored 251 points to win the boys meet, 20 ahead of Granite Bay with 231. Oak Ridge swept the relay titles. 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