By Mike Zummo
The Newburgh Free Academy girls’ swim team’s season got off to a slow start last Wednesday as the Goldbacks lost their season-opening meet, 102-72, to the New Paltz Huguenots in their home pool.
Ella Gerbes won two events for the Goldbacks. She won the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 25.87 and the 100-yard freestyle in 56.97. Seventh-grader Arabella Tantono was the only competitor in the 1-meter diving event, finishing with a six-dive score of 140.60.
The Goldbacks’ 400-meter relay team of Jordyn Bryant, Vivian Piscitella, AnnMarie Martin and Gerbes picked up a victory with a time of 4:06.61. The Huguenots only swam exhibition in that event.
The Goldbacks outscored New Paltz in both the diving and the 100-yard freestyle. Despite Gerbes’ win the 50-yard freestyle, the Huguenots took second, third and fourth in the event to outscore the Goldbacks, 9-7.
Brooke Vos (100-yard butterfly, 200-yard individual medley) won two events for the Huguenots. Becca Lucchesi (200-yard freestyle), Maya Pizzarello (500-yard freestyle), Charlee Domitrovits (100-yard backstroke) and Alaura Sheeley (100-yard breaststroke) all picked up wins for Newburgh.
New Paltz also won the 200-yard medley relay and the 200-yard freestyle relay.
New Paltz 102, Newburgh 72
200-yard medley relay: 1. New Paltz (Laurie, Sheeley, Vos, Suchowiecki) - 2:01.11; 2. Newburgh (Bryant, Piscitella, Gerbes, Martin) - 2:06.33; 5. Newburgh (Walker, Ozkovalak, Cao, VanDalinda) - 2:25.39.
200-yard freestyle: 1. Becca Lucchesi (NP) - 2:10.11; 2. Jordyn Bryant (NFA) - 2:12.44; 4. Leah Walsh (NFA) - 2:23.53; 5. Julia Steiner (NFA) - 2:25.88.
200-yard individual medley: 1. Brooke Vos (NP) - 2:17.06; 3. Vivian Piscitella (NFA) - 2:36.61; 4. Lara Ozkovalak (NFA) - 2:55.26.
50-yard freestyle: 1. Ella Gerbes (NFA) - 25.87; 5. AnnMarie Martin (NFA) - 28.72; 7. Chloe Walker (NFA) - 32.63.
Diving: 1. Arabella Tantono (NFA) - 140.60
100-yard butterfly: 1. Brooke Vos (NP) - 1:03.66; 3. Lauren Cao (NFA) - 1:23.72; 4. Lara Ozkovalak (NFA) - 1:25.11.
100-yard freestyle: 1. Ella Gerbes (NFA) - 56.97; 4. Julia Steiner (NFA) - 1:08.15; 5. Vivian Piscitella (NFA) - 6:1728.
500-yard freestyle: 1. Maya Pizzarello (NP) - 5:36.47; 3. AnnMarie Martin (NFA) - 6:11.06; 4. Leah Walsh (NFA) - 6:14.64; 5. Vivian Piscitella (NFA) - 6:17.28.
200-yard freestyle relay: 1. New Paltz (Suchowiecki, Sheeley, Lucchesi, Pizzarello) - 1:51.66; 3. Newburgh (VanDalinda, Ozkovalak, Walsh, Steiner) - 2:07.03; 4. Newburgh (Cao, Hicks, Piscitella, Smith) - 2:13.67; 6. Newburgh (Santiago, LY, Arias, Tantono) - 2:44.27.
100-yard backstroke: 1. Charlee Domitrovits (NP) - 1:08.31; 2. Jordyn Bryant (NFA) - 1:08.52; 4. Chloe Walker (NFA) - 1:17.56; 6. Daylena Vera (NFA) - 1:36.23/
100-yard breaststroke: 1. Alaura Sheeley (NP) - 1:13.17; 4. Lena Piscitella (NFA) - 1:33.80; 5. Karli Smith (NFA) - 1:39.58.
400-yard freestyle relay: 1. Newburgh (Bryant, Piscitella, Martin, Gerbes) - 4:06.61; 2. Newburgh (Walsh, Cao, VanDalinda, Steiner) - 4:43.85.