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Fairport 100, Webster 86

January 10, 2008

Fairport swimmers splash past Webster

By Craig Potter

With the meet on the line, and Webster needing to finish 1-2 in the 400 free relay last Thursday at Fairport, the Red Raiders held off the Lakers to prevail in the meet, 100-86.

After the first leg of the 400 free relay, the Lakers held the 1-2 positions, however Fairport’s second leg swimmer, Jake Robbins, overtook the second spot, and Brendan McLaughlin and Jim Beaudry secured the victory as the Raiders won the race in 3:26.47, and sealed the victory.

“Jake Robbins did a tremendous job,” said Fairport coach Mike Kennedy. “All our kids did. It's a great win for our program, but our ultimate goal is sectionals.

“It's always a great meet. We've got the utmost respect for Webster and Darrell Byerts, their head coach. We knew it was going to be a tough meet because he does a great job over the years. We swam extremely well. The kids did a great job.”

Fairport never trailed as the Raiders went 1-2 in the 200 medley relay to take early command.

The team of Peter Koenig, Connor Harrington, Jake Horowitz, and Brendan McLaughlin won in 1:44.83.

The Lakers rebounded with a 1-2 finish in the 200 free by the Wahl brothers, Zack and Matt. Zack Wahl’s time was 1:49.88.

Paul Garman won the 200 individual medley (2:07.07) for Webster, but the Raiders placed 2-3-4 by Koenig, Harrington, and Matt McGrath, respectively.

“There's always surprises in a big meet,” Kennedy said. “If we can make the surprises go more in our end, we'll be okay. Just take one event at a time.”

Taylor Ross of Webster won the 50 free (22.71), but Dylan Scheemaker, Jim Beaudry, and Robbins finished 2-3-4 to once again add to the Fairport lead.

FHS diver Dhruv Tyagi won with 270.35 points, but the Lakers divers went 2-3-4 as the visitors started to comeback.

Zack Wahl earned his second win in the 100 butterfly (55.21), and Webster pulled to within two (56-54) with a 1-3 finish in the 100 free. Ross captured his second win in 49.45.

The teams seesawed first in the remaining events as the Lakers stayed within striking distance.

Fairport’s Tyler Benson splashed to a win in the 500 free (5:02.68). Jon Steffen edged Webster’s Wade Piotrowski by .17 seconds for third place. Cody Grosser took second for the Lakers.

The Webster team of Ross, Matt Wahl, Garman, and Zack Wahl won the 200 free relay (1:30.65).

Fairport went 1-2 in the 100 back as Koenig placed first (56.95) with Tyagi second by .72 seconds ahead of Webster’s Ethan Mahony.

Garman won his second race in the 100 breast (1:06.81) for Webster, but Harrington and Kyle Mihaljevic placed 2-3 for the Raiders.

“Great competition brings out great swims,” Byerts said. “We had three things against going into the meet. We had to go to the Fairport pool, they were coming off a loss to Pittsford, and they wanted to avenge last year’s loss.

“The medley relay needed to split Fairport, but they split their relays and captured second by 1.4 seconds. The last relay we were down by eight and needed to go 1-2. We split our relay to try. The first relay was out-touched by .9 seconds and the second by 1.9 seconds.

“We had 22 life best times and qualified three more state times. Fairport has a quality program. I give my team credit because they never gave up after the opening relay.”
Pittsford meet

 

Originally published in the Perinton-Fairport Post

Tyler Benson wins the 500 freestyle. Photo by Craig Potter.

Fairport JVs swim to win

Coming off their first loss in two season, the Fairport junior varsity boys swimming and diving team had to face a tough Webster team. Wasting no time, the JV Raiders jumped out front with Ted Rakiewicz, Jim Rafoth, Zakk Vice, and Alex Newton taking first in the200 medley relay. Sean Keyes season best time(2:09:09) touched first in the 200 free, and Rafoth followed with a first place in the 200 IM.

Jonah King kicked to a first place finish in the 50 free as Raiders built on their lead. Divers Jeff Castellano and Steven Chan continued to show that hard work pays off with second and third place finishes. Diving coach Dave Salmon and his divers continue to amaze the spectators with the degree of difficulty in the dives.

With a first place finish in diving and the 500 free, Webster closed the gap on the Raiders. However, Fairport responded with Rafoth, Mike Lopes, Rakiewicz, and Keyes winning the 200 free relay, and Vice touched first in the 100 back with Ben Dengler taking fifth.

Final score: Fairport 99,Webster 80

Originally published in the Perinton-Fairport Post

2008

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