Liverpool boys swimming defeats C-NS, 105-77

By PHIL BLACKWELL

Now the Liverpool and Cicero-North Syracuse boys swim teams are concentrating on their practices leading up to the Section III Class A championships that take place Feb. 15 at Nottingham.

To kick off the last week of the regular season, these two rivals met each other at Liverpool, where the Warriors pulled away to win 105-77 helped by having a far deeper roster on hand.

Yet it was the Northstars who pulled away in the first race, the 200-yard medley relay. Jacob Griffin, Caden Grifin, Joey Swenton and Anthony Gabrielli went one minute, 41.26 seconds, less than a second from the state qualifying standard of 1:40.67.

Then Jacob Griffin won two races of his own, going 22.44 seconds to edge Jack Cavallerano (22.58) in the 50 freestyle and, in the 100 backstroke, pulled away to take the top spot in 55.39 to the 1:01.49 from Liverpool’s James Hayden.

Joey Swenton also won two races for C-NS, holding off the Warriors’ Joe Lisi, 2:05.51 to