Lady Spartans Sweep Second Swim Meet of Season

For the second meet in a row, the Amity girls swim team splashed its way to an easy Southern Connecticut Conference victory. Last week, the Lady Spartans trounced West Haven 103-74. On Monday, they submerged Hamden 100-78 at the Orange Community Pool. Amity not only won each of the first seven events, it swept two events and claimed both first and second place in the other five races—with a different swimmer winning  each race.

The meet began with Amity sweeping the 2000-yard medley relay (Shannon Early, Katherine Holden, Dana Grindall, and Anna Lu) with "A" relay coming in first with a time of 1 minute, 56.72 seconds. The "C" relay (Colby Champagne, Stephanie Antonellis, Rachel Holden, and Marina Shatskikh) posted a second place 2:04.73. The "B" relay (Mollee Lasto. Lydia Pokluda, Morgan Turner, and Amanda Rossi) added a third place 2:05.27.

Madeline Snow and Morton went 1-2 in the 200 freestyle with respective times of 2:06.46 and 2:09.83. It was the same story in the 200 individual medley as Dana Chung came in first (2:19.14) and Jessica Kochiss was right behind with her 2:21.28.  Pokluda (27.33) and Turner (28.18) dominated the 50 free.

Craig claimed the diving competition as she recorded 197.10 points. Gabrielle Syrop was runner-up with 169.55 points. Grindall breezed to a 57.09 victory in the 100 butterfly and Rachel Holden was second at 1:05.82. The Lady Spartans’ second sweep of the meet came in the 100 free as Lu (56.77), Antonellis (1:00.23), and Samantha Austin (1:02.35) went 1, 2, 3.

Hamden’s first victory came in the 500 free with Julia Alberti winning with a time of 5:40.74. Amity bounced right back to take the top two slots in the 200 free relay. Turner, Kochiss, Morton, and Lu rang up a first place 1:49.39. Emma Feldman, Rachel Holden, Wendy Kenyon, and Grindall added a second place 1:51.37.

With Amity going exhibition, the Green Dragons were credited with sweeps in the 100 backstroke, 100 breaststroke, and the 400 free relay.

The 2-0 Lady Spartans are back in action on Wednesday when they host Foran in a 7:30 p.m. meet at the Orange Community Pool.