Valley Central’s boys’ swimming team ended its dual meet season last week with three meets, winning one and losing to two, to finish 4-7 overall.

The Vikings opened the week Monday, Jan. 17, at home against Minisink and lost 98-83. Sean Zupko won the 200-freestyle and 500-freestyle, and Dan Harrington won the diving competition. Nick Suchy won the 100-freestyle, and he, Zupko, Luke Roberts and Tom Geiselhart swam on Valley Central’s winning 400-freestyle relay team.

The next day was the Vikings’ final home meet, a time when teams honor their seniors. But Valley Central does not have any seniors, and the young Vikings went out and edged Warwick 95-90.

Zupko, again, won the 200 and 500-freestyle. Suchy won the 50-freestyle and 100-freestyle, and Luke Roberts won the 100-butterfly by nearly four seconds with a time of 1:03.30.

Jacob Smith won the 100-backstroke, and the Vikings won the 200-medley and 400-freestyle relays. Harrington, and Jakob Holtje went 1-2 in diving during the Vikings’ final victory of the season.

The week ended in Pine Bush Thursday, and the Bushmen won easily 107-79. Colin Lang won the diving competition for Pine Bush, and talented Bushman, the section’s top diver, also swam on the winning 200-medley and 200-freestyle relay teams and was second in the 50-freestyle.

Valley Central’s Zupko won the 200-freestyle and the 100-backstroke. Roberts won the 200-individual medley. Nathaniel Stroraska won the 500-freestyle for the Vikings, which also won the 400-freestyle relay.

“We’ve got kids swimming all over the place right now,” said Scott Warner, Valley Central’s coach. “(Zupko) is a distance 500-(freestyle) kid, but he’s come on in the backstroke.”

Now the Vikings get ready for the postseason, which begins next week in Washingtonville during the OCIAA championships Feb. 2. The diving competition will be conducted in Cornwall, Jan. 31, and Harrington, a junior, is the section’s 4th ranked diver.

Zupko, a sophomore, is ranked 5th in section in the 500-freestyle, 10th in the 100-backstroke, and 13th in the 200-freestyle. Suchy, a sophomore, is 16th in the 50-freestyle. In the 100-freestyle, Zupko is ranked 21st, and Suchy is ranked 22nd.

The Section 9 championships will be conducted at Valley Central Feb. 14-16.