By Mike Zummo
The Pine Bush boys’ swimming team started 2023 by winning nine of 12 events in a 103-74 win over the Minisink Valley Warriors on Thursday at Pine Bush High School.
Joshua Gallagher (50-yard freestyle, 500-yard freestyle) won two events for the Bushmen.
Dominic Licardi (200-yard individual medley), Kaeden Fisher (diving), Bryce Sloley (100-yard butterfly), Tomek Oakes (100-yard backstroke), and Anthony Giannini (100-yard breaststroke) each picked up one win each for the Bushmen.
Pine Bush won the 200-yard medley and freestyle relays, and only swam exhibition in the 400-yard freestyle relay.
Jackson Hujus (200-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle) won two events for the Warriors.
Pine Bush 103, Minisink Valley 74
200-yard medley relay: 1. Pine Bush (Oakes, Giannini, Vero, Sloley) - 1:56.28; 2. Pine Bush (Vuksanovich, Gallagher, Devlin, Dodson) - 1:57.72; 3. Pine Bush (Hufcut, Healy, Schultz, Eagan) - 2:11.66.
200-yard freestyle: 1. Jackson Hujus (MV) - 2:03.41; 2. Liam Blackwell (PB) - 2:09.03; 3. Jayden McCord (PB) - 2:13.60; 5. Alejandro Fernandez (PB) - 2:34.70.
200-yard individual medley: 1. Dominic Licardi (PB) - 2:24.84; 2. Blaze Devlin (PB) - 2:28.91; 3. Matthew Webster (PB) - 2:29.75.
50-yard freestyle: 1. Joshua Gallagher (PB) - 25.65; 3. Jack Vuksanovich (PB) - 25.73; 4. Chase Dodson (PB) - 26.15.
Diving: 1. Kaeden Fisher (PB) - 263.95.
100-yard butterfly: 1. Bryce Sloley (PB) - 55.38; 3. Jack Vero (PB) - 1:14.89; 4. Jackson Schultz (PB) - 1:15.18.
100-yard freestyle: 1. Jackson Hujus (MV) - 54.05; 2. Jack Vuksanovich (PB) - 56.43; 3. Dominic Licardi (PB) - 57.42; 5. Matthew Webster (PB) - 1:00.40.
500-yard freestyle: 1. Joshua Gallagher (PB) - 5:39.82; 2. Liam Blackwell (PB) - 6:05.17.
200-yard freestyle relay: 1. Pine Bush (Sloley, Devlin, Blackwell, Gallagher) - 1:40.40; 2. Pine Bush (Oakes, Licardi, Vuksanovich, Webster) - 1:42.32; 4. Pine Bush (Cedeno, Eagan, Gandolfini, Schultz) - 2:06.08.
100-yard backstroke: 1. Tomek Oakes (PB)- 1:00.95.
100-yard breaststroke: 1. Anthony Giannini (PB) - 1:15.30.
400-yard freestyle relay: 1. Minisink Valley (Ivanov, Filip, Cucuzza, Hujus) - 4:12.81.