Nauset Girls Crowned Conference Champions, Nantucket Boys Rule Pool

BRIDGEWATER — In a complete reversal from their swim meet two days ago, the Nauset Regional girls and the Nantucket boys swim teams were crowned conference champions yesterday at Bridgewater State University in the 20th Annual Bay Colony Conference Championships.

Barnstable High School turned in seven first place finishes yesterday at the 20th Annual Bay Colony Conference Swimming Championships at Bridgewater State University. Nantucket and Nauset took home the team conference titles. Sean Walsh/capecod.com sports

Barnstable High School turned in seven first place finishes yesterday at the 20th Annual Bay Colony Conference Swimming Championships at Bridgewater State University. Nantucket and Nauset took home the team conference titles.
Sean Walsh/capecod.com sports

The Nantucket girls defeated the Nauset girls two days ago but yesterday it was Nauset’s team that came out on top with a score of 369 points. The Nauset boys defeated Nantucket two days ago but yesterday it was the Nantucket team that went home victorious with a 291-point score. Barnstable’s girls’ team came in third place (191), the Sandwich girls came in 5th place (93 pts.), St. John Paul II’s girls came in 7th (67 pts.) and Martha’s Vineyard came in 8th place (57).

The Barnstable boys also came in third place behind champion Nantucket and runner-up Nauset, while the Sandwich Blue Knights came in fifth place (155), Martha’s Vineyard came in sixth place (117) and St. John Paul II’s boys came in 7th place (24).

With both girls’ and boys’ team scores combined, Nauset came out on top of all teams that participated yesterday with an overall score of 656 points while Nantucket came in a close second place with 636 points. Barnstable, again, came in third place with 425 points.

All totaled, though, Barnstable had seven (7) individual event first place finishes. Nauset and Sandwich each had five (5) first place finishes, Bridgewater-Raynham had four (4) and Nantucket had three (3). Each team is allotted a different number of points for each event and each individual or relay team in that event, thus, the reason why Nantucket’s girls’ team and Nauset’s boys’ team each captured the title.

Barnstable’s seven first-place finishes included its boys 200-yard medley relay team (Stephen Yezukevicz, Liam Russo, Alex Damiecki and Connor Rogan/1:49.05), Liam Russo in the boys 200-yard freestyle (1:56.39) and Caroline Ells in the girls’ 50-yard freestyle. Ells turned in a time of 25.37 just a hair ahead of Nauset’s Hannah Johnson who came in at 25.55. Both girls are juniors and a total of 84 girls competed in that event. Ells also finished first in the girls’ 100-yard freestyle with a time of 55.78, nearly three seconds ahead of Nantucket freshman Claudia Hofford who came in at 58.11 and third place finisher Whitney Knowlton-Wardle from Nauset at 58.14.

Barnstable’s Damiecki, a junior Red Raider captain, took first place in the boys’ 500-yard freestyle with a time of 5:24.94, far ahead of Nauset’s Nicholas Smith, a senior. Smith turned in a time of 5:53.10. The Red Raiders’ boys’ 200-yard freestyle relay team also took a first place finish, coming in at 1:37.79. Russo, Rogan, Yezukevicz and Damiecki comprised that squad as well. Russo took another first place in the boys’ 100-yard backstroke, coming in at 58.68, just two-tenths of one second ahead of Bridgewater-Raynham’s Nate Kramer who came in at 58.70 and Nauset’s Jack Johnson who came in third place at 58.75.

Nauset’s five first place finishers included Knowlton-Wardle in the girls’ 200-yard freestyle (2:06.05), the girls’ 200-yard freestyle relay team of Kara Smith, Brooke Linnell, Knowlton-Wardle and Hannah Johnson (1:46.96), Hannah Johnson in the girls’ 100-yard backstroke (1:00.56), the girls’ 400-yard freestyle relay team comprised of Katie Walters, Hannah Walsh, Knowlton-Wardle and Hannah Johnson (3:52.30), and the boys’ 400-yard freestyle relay team comprised of Jack Johnson, Coleman Norton, Kevin Johnson, and Jake Avery (3:33.01).

St. John Paul II varsity swimmers Kerry and Chris Bresnahan helped lead the Lions to a fine showing in yesterday's 20th Annual Bay Colony Conference Championships at Bridgewater State University. Chris took a 2nd place finish, the school's highest mark. Sean Walsh/capecod.com sports

St. John Paul II varsity swimmers Kerry and Chris Bresnahan helped lead the Lions to a fine showing in yesterday’s 20th Annual Bay Colony Conference Championships at Bridgewater State University. Chris took a 2nd place finish, the school’s highest mark.
Sean Walsh/capecod.com sports

Sandwich’s five first-place finishers included: Brian Cundiff in the boys’ 50-yard freestyle (23.26) and boys’ 100-yard freestyle (51.74) and Kaitlyn Scott in the girls’ 100-yard butterfly (1:03.49) and girls’ 100-yard breastroke (1:12.62). Scott’s 100-yard breastroke first-place finish just edged out Nantucket’s Frances Steadman who turned in a 1:12.68 mark. Blue Knights’ junior Megan Forrester set a new conference championship record with her girls’ 1-meter dive score of 265.65.

St. John Paul II’s Kerry Bresnahan, a freshman, came in fifth place in the girls’ 100-yard butterfly (1:07.06) and sixth place in the girls’ 200-yard IM with a time of 2:34.82 while senior Kristen Hayes came in fifth place in the girls’ 50-yard freestyle with a time of 27.47. Lions’ freshman Chris Bresnahan turned in a second place finish in the boys’ 100-yard butterfly (1:03.76), just behind Nantucket’s Henry Blackwell (1st place/1:03.54) and a 12th place finish in the boys’ 50-yard freestyle with a time of 25.89. Lions’ senior Sarah Dorman took 15th place in the girls’ 100-yard freestyle. St. John Paul II’s girls’ 200-yard freestyle relay team of Dorman, Bresnahan, Gabrielle Vaillancourt and Hayes took an 8th place finish.

Here’s how all the individual swimmers, relay squads and overall team scores and places shaped up:

2015 Bay Colony Conference Swimming Championships

— Sean Walsh is the sports editor for www.capecod.com. His email is [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @coachwalshccbm

 

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