The boys’ swimming state standard for the 400-yard freestyle relay is 3:18.87.

The Newburgh Free Academy Goldbacks’ team of Jackson Gerbes, Jackson Cooper, Peyton Tuttle and Jack Mummery swam a 3:18.94, good enough for second place behind the Warwick Wildcats, but just missing qualifying for the New York State Public High School Athletic Association championship meet.

“That’s tough, but that’s the sport,” Newburgh coach Zach Williams said. “There are cut times and you either do it, or you don’t do it. Point-oh-seven is as close as you could get, but all four guys dropped time, so, in our world, that’s really all you can ask for.”

The best part for the Goldbacks is that three of the four swimmers in that relay will be back next season as Gerbes is the only senior on the relay, and only one of three on the team. Cooper, Tuttle and Mummery are all sophomores.

“Sometimes (not making it) is not (always a bad thing),” Williams said. “We’d rather be going, but offseason motivation can help the three out of the four of them that get to come back. I’m sure they will bring it up a lot in a good way.”

Overall, the Goldbacks finished second at Saturday’s Section 9 boys’ swimming and diving championship at Valley Central High School with 258.333 points. The Monroe-Woodbury Crusaders won the event with 293 points.

“We swam really well, Thursday and today, I think we swam very well,” Williams said. “We moved up a lot of spots. We’re still a pretty young team trying to figure out championship swimming. For our divers, two of them it’s the first time experiencing this and they did very well. We swam how a Newburgh team should swim. They were just a little better.”

Mummery was one of the Goldbacks’ top finishers, taking third in the 200-yard freestyle and fourth in the 100-yard freestyle.

Tuttle was fifth in the 500-yard freestyle and Jackson Gerbes was ninth. Vicente Velasquez was 13th and Conor Mummery was 15th. Tuttle also took fifth in the 100-yard backstroke.

Aiden Domanico was sixth in the 100-yard butterfly, and Cooper took seventh in the 100-yard freestyle. Angelo Reade was 11th.

Gerbes finished eighth in the 50-yard freestyle and Angelo Reade took ninth.

Cole Mullarkey was eighth in diving with an 11-dive score of 334.90, and Akhiir McNeil and Ayden Ortega finished 13th and 14th.

Cooper was ninth in the 200-yard individual medley, and Aiden Domanico was 11th.

Vicente Velasquez was 10th in the 200-yard freestyle, and Conor Mummery was 16th.

Domanico, Gerbes, Read and Jack Mummery were third in the 200-yard freestyle, while Tuttle, Cooper, Domanico and Reade were fifth in the 200-yard medley relay.

“Everything is learning,” Williams said. “I think they learned it’s cool to drop a lot of time on Thursday, but the focus and the maturity of the racing on Saturday is the win or the loss. I think they felt that they were in it. Whether they were successful or not successful, they learned from that, so I think this makes us better. To get second place without a state cut shows how deep they are.”

Section 9 Swimming and Diving Championships
Team results: 1. Monroe-Woodbury - 293; 2. Newburgh - 258.333.
200-yard medley relay: 1. Monroe-Woodbury (Nicholas Bruno, Ariel Koyfman, Dylan Cobb, Anthony Kaminskiy) - 1:38.06; 5. Newburgh (Peyton Tuttle, Jackson Cooper, Aiden Domanico, Angelo Reade) - 1:42.30.
200-yard freestyle: 1. Jesse Abramson (Warwick) - 1:43.07; 3. Jack Mummery (NFA) - 1:47.93; 10. Vicente Velasquez (NFA) - 1:53.35; 16. Conor Mummery (NFA) - 2:01.36.

200-yard individual medley: 1. Finn Quested (Rhinebeck) - 1:54.48; 9. Jackson Cooper (NFA) - 2:05.14; 11. Aiden Domanico (NFA) - 2:08.47; 22. Sebastian Burgarelli (NFA) - 2:17.89. 25. Jax Pagano (NFA) - 2:20.53.
50-yard freestyle: 1. Josh Johnson (Marlboro) - 21.98; 8. Jackson Gerbes (NFA) - 23.01; 9. Angelo Reade (NFA) - 23.15; 26. Miles Davis (NFA) - 24.70; 28. Dardan Cenalia (NFA) - 24.86.
Diving: 1. Luke Albanese (Goshen) - 566.00; 8. Cole Mullarkey (NFA) - 334.90; 13. Akhiir McNeil (NFA) - 221.35; 14. Ayden Ortega (NFA) - 220.75.
100-yard butterfly: 1. Josh Johnson (Marlboro) - 52.03; 6. Aiden Domanico (NFA) - 54.96; 19. Sebastian Burgarelli (NFA) - 1:00.84.
100-yard freestyle: 1. Tomek Oakes (PB) - 47.94; 4. Jack Mummery (NFA) - 49.21; 7. Jackson Cooper (NFA) - 11. Angelo Reade (NFA) - 51.18; 28. Miles Davis (NFA) - 55.07.
500-yard freestyle: 1. Jesse Abramson (Warwick) - 4:47.41; 5. Peyton Tuttle (NFA) - 5:01.08; 9. Jackson Gerbes (NFA) - 5:02.45; 13. Vicente Velasquez (NFA) - 5:21.75; 15. Conor Mummery (NFA) - 5:37.42.
200-yard freestyle: 1. Warwick (Jesse Abramson, Youssef Moustafa, Michael Kelly, Connor Holland) - 1:30.01; 3. Newburgh (Aiden Domanico, Jackson Gerbes, Angelo Reade, Jack Mummery) - 1:31.23.
100-yard backstroke: 1. Finn Quested (Rhinebeck) - 50.10; 5. Peyton Tuttle (NFA) - 55.66.
100-yard breaststroke: 1. Andrew Sammons (Kingston) - 59.33; 21. Jax Pagano (NFA) - 1:11.28.
400-yard freestyle relay: 1. Warwick (Jesse Abramson, Youssef Moustafa, Michael Kelly, Connor Holland) - 3:17.12; 2. Newburgh (Jackson Gerbes, Jackson Cooper, Peyton Tuttle, Jack Mummery) - 3:18.94.