WASHINGTONVILLE — If the Pine Bush swim team is Batman, then the rest of Section 9 has been playing the part of Robin for the last five years.
Well, it’s a long story, but for more on how Pine Bush’s swim team was inspired to a fifth straight OCIAA meet title by the latest Batman movie, check out Sunday’s Times Herald-Record and Varsity845.com.
Check out the video above for some highlights from the meet, including interviews with Jared Charleston (Monroe-Woodbury), Connor McCarty (Cornwall) and Tyler Alexander and Stephen Lowe of Pine Bush.
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STATE QUALIFIERS
There were no new state meet qualifiers in any of the individual events on Saturday, but three 200 medley relay teams punched their tickets to the state finals at Rochester-area Webster Schroeder High School on March 1-2.
New Paltz (Hudson Carroll, Jackson Beveridge, Aodhan Fogarty, Emile Kuyl), Minisink Valley (Zach Vreeland, James Crumm, Nicholas Rosario, Doug Prokopchak) and Pine Bush (Tyler Alexander, Brendin Thompson, Jake Borkowski, Padraic Thompson) are all headed to states.
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2013 OCIAA swimming championships
Team scores: 1. Pine Bush (PB) 371; 2. Minisink Valley (MV) 291; 3. New Paltz (NP) 263; 4. Warwick (War.) 219.5; 5. Kingston (K) 211; 6. Cornwall (C ) and Monroe-Woodbury (M-W) 206 – tie; 8. Newburgh Free Academy (NFA) 164.5; 9. Washingtonville (Wash.) 147; 10. Valley Central (VC) 88; 11. Middletown (Midd.) 65; 12. Rhinebeck (Rhine.) 28; 13. Roosevelt (FDR) 27; 14. Marlboro (Marl.) 20.
Individual results: 200 medley relay: 1. New Paltz (Hudson Carroll, Jackson Beveridge, Aodhan Fogarty, Emily Kuyl) 1:39.81; 200 freestyle: 1. Stephen Lowe (PB) 1:51.97; 200 IM: 1. Jared Charleston (M-W) 2:01.23; 50 freestyle: 1. Dylan Burns (C ) 22.49; diving: 1. Nick Rusek (War.) 541.95; 100 butterfly: 1. Jared Charleston (M-W) 52.89; 100 freestyle: 1. James Crumm (MV) 48.09; 500 freestyle: 1. Zach Vreeland (MV) 5:02.40; 200 freestyle relay: 1. Cornwall (Dylan Burns, Matthew Scholl, Christian Vizethann, Connor McCarty) 1:30.47; 100 backstroke: 1. Hudson Carroll (NP) 54.51; 100 breaststroke: 1. James Crumm (MV) 1:01.76; 400 freestyle relay: 1. Pine Bush (Padraic Thompson, Jake Borkowski, Brendin Thompson, Stephen Lowe) 3:22.28.
Pine Bush swimmers cheer on their athletes during a heat of the 50 Yard Freestyle at the Boys OCIAA Swimming Championships at Washingtonville High School on Saturday, February 2, 2013. (CHET GORDON photo/Times Herald-Record)
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For full results from the meet, check out Section9Swim.com.
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What are you looking forward to about the Section 9 meet coming up in two weeks? Any swimmers on the verge of qualifying for the state meet? Any other interesting stories? Let me know on Twitter: @THR_Montgomery.
