The Cardinals end the 2-year rein of Bishop O'Connell, winning the girls' NoVa Catholic meet in its third year.
Senior Kelly Palmer anchored the final girls relay and held off an O’Connell challenge to give the Cardinals a 265-259 win over the second-place Knights in the 8-team Northern Virginia Catholic Regional swim championships at George Mason University’s Freedom Center in Manassas on Saturday. The Knights easily outpointed second place Bishop Ireton in the boys meet 372-265 to win the 7-team boys meet.
It was a great day for both squads as both boys and girls continued to qualify swimmers in both individual and relays for state and Catholic National meets. Both teams scored well in the three relay events and both piled up points in the grueling 500 yard freestyle race, the boys a whopping 38 team points, the girls 30!
Sophomore Ben Gorski won the 500 free event in 5:04.15 while senior Emi Quinn captured the 100 free in a time of :57.29. The girls 200 freestyle relay team of Quinn, junior Catherine Kennedy, freshman Clara Boggs, and Palmer captured a first place for the champions.
The boys scored points in every event as did the girls enroute to their win. It was the 500 however, where the depth of the teams came to the fore in a major way. In addition to Gorski’s win, Michael Morrison finished 4th (5:54.34), Sam Price was 6th (6:13.46) and Carlos Chiriboga was 9th (6:37.87) The girls were led by Palmer’s second in 5:41.03, Boggs was 6th, Julianna Sampaio 8th, and Kaitlin Nguyen 10th.
Ireton divers were busy as well, sophomores Michael Curry, Stephanie Frazier, and Emma Peterson finished 4th, 3rd, and 6th respectively in the one meter diving event.
TEAM RESULTS
BOYS GIRLS
1) Bishop O’Connell 372 1) Bishop Ireton 265
2) Bishop Ireton 265 2) Bishop O’Connell 259
3) Seton School 191 3) Paul VI Catholic 221
4) John Paul the Great 169 4) St Gertrude 218
5) Paul VI Catholic 126 5) Seton School 163
6) St Michael 109 6)Oakcrest 96
7) Benedictine 102 7) John Paul the Great 92
8) St Michael the Archangel 55
Bishop Ireton individual scoring finishes:
50 freestyle:
Boys: 4th Kevin Grant :23.56, 7th Scott Schwartz :24.40
Girls: 3rd Catherine Kennedy :27.66
100 Backstroke:
Boys: 3rd AJ Salvatori :58.55
Girls: 4th Anna Fracasso 1:10.00
100 Breaststroke:
Boys: 11th Giovanni Salvatori 1:20.45
Girls: 4th Catherine Kennedy 1:16.43 8th Virginia Beineke 1:19.86
100 Butterfly:
Boys: Andrew Selby 4th 1:04.89 Carl Searman 6th 1:05.81
Girls: Anna Fracasso 3rd 1:06.89 Kailea Rouin 7th 1:16.47
100 Freestyle:
Boys: Kevin Grant 3rd :53.31 Jimmy Grant 8th :57.07
Girls: Emi Quinn 1st :57.29
200 Freestyle:
Boys: Michael Morrison 2d 2:04.88 Sam Price 3rd 2:06.96
Girls: Kelly Palmer 3rd 2:09.95 Clara Boggs 4th 2:12.44
200 IM:
Boys: Ben Gorski 2d 2:06.39 AJ Salvatori 4th 2:16.40
Girls: Emi Quinn 2d 2:27.61 Virginia Beineke 2:36.17
Bishop Ireton relay scoring finishes:
200 Medley:
Boys: 3rd 1:50.72 Jimmy Grant, Ben Gorski, Andrew Selby, Scott Schwartz
Girls: 4th 2:03.19 Eileen Louison, Emi Quinn, Anna Fracasso, Catherine Kennedy
200 Freestyle:
Boys: 2d 1:33.28 Kevin Grant Scott Schwartz, AJ Salvatori, Ben Gorski
Girls: 1st 1:50.36 Emi Quinn, Catherine Kennedy, Clara Boggs, Kelly Palmer
400 Freestyle:
Boys: 3rd 3:39.27 Kevin Grant, Jimmy Grant, AJ Salvatori, Sam Price
Girls: 2d 4:00.87 Anna Fracasso, Virginia Beineke, Clara Boggs, Kelly Palmer
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