Wahconah Boys, Girls Top Pittsfield
PITTSFIELD, Mass. – Artois Sancho led the way with a pair of wins as the Wahconah boys and girls swim teams each beat Pittsfield at the Boys and Girls Club.
Sancho won the 200-yard freestyle and 100 free and swam the butterfly leg of the team’s winning medley relay quartet.
Kalen Spratt, Tim Kaley and Brayden Ryan each picked up a win for Wahconah in the 56-36 win.
In the girls meet, Wahconah edged Pittsfield, 52-42, behind Ella Reardon, who won the 500 free and swam the first leg in a pivotal 200 free relay win.
That victory helped Wahconah open up a 10-point advantage with three events left that Pittsfield was not able to dent.
Elizabeth Wheeler, Abby Kunzmann and Kayley Prew teamed with Reardon in Wahconah’s only relay win of the meet.
Victoria Lattizzori won the 200 free, and Emily Capogna touched the wall first in the 100 breaststroke for Wahconah, which piled up points with second- and third-place finishes throughout the meet to counter five first-place individual finishes and two relay wins for the Generals.
Depth was a factor in both Wahconah wins.
In the boys race, Wahconah swam unopposed in the 200 IM and the 400 relay.
“It’s very, very nice to fill every lane,” Wahconah coach Steve Kolis said. “In fact, I had too many swimmers. A lot of girls couldn’t swim four events. A lot of them only swam three. That’s a good problem to have. Most of them are young and new, and they’re not tops in the league, but we’ll second-, third and fourth them to death.”
Kolis said the program benefited from an infusion of new athletes this winter.
“I have six boys that never swam competitively before,” he said. “Now, they’re doing 200s and 500s. So that’s huge. And we have a couple of new girls. Everybody’s doing great.
“All they do is improve a little every meet. That’s all I ask them. We don’t expect to win everything. Just improve.”
Pittsfield had three double-winners on the day.
On the boys side, Joseph Kearns won the 500 free and 100 backstroke. For the girls, Taryn Griifin took the 200 IM and 100 butterfly, and Maggie Vittum won the 50 free and 100 back.
Photos from this event to come.
Girls
Wahconah 52, Pittsfield 42
Medley relay: 1. Pittsfield (Vittum, Wallace, Griffin, Maloy) 2:17.40; 2. Wahconah, 2:20.63; 3. Wahconah, 2:33.27.
200 free: 1. Victoria Lattizzori, W, 2:32.09; 2. Kayley Prew, W, 2:40.75; 3. Leah Maloy, P, 2:43.21.
200 IM: 1. Taryn Griffin, P, 2:50.81; 2. Anna Lamontagne, W, 2:56.27; 3. Emma Russell, W, 3:04.15.
50 free: 1. Maggie Vittum, P, 28.03; 2. Ella Reardon, W, 30.7; 3. Abby Kunzmann, W, 33.32.
100 fly: 1. Taryn Griffin, P, 1:17.87; 2. Callie Camille, W, 1:28.83; 3. Elizabeth Wheeler, W, 1:30.63.
100 free: 1. Leah Maloy, P, 1:10.33; 2. Anna Lamontagne, W, 1:10.60; 3. Emma Russell, W, 1:19.97.
500 free: 1. Ella Reardon, W, 6:40.93; 2. Ari Berard, P, 7:40.53; 3. Izzy Duquette, W, 7:54.91.
200 free relay: 1. Wahconah (Reardon, Wheeler, Kunzmann, Prew) 2:08.78; 2. Pittsfield, 1:14.76; 3. Wahconah, 2:17.19.
100 backstroke: 1. Maggie Vittum, P, 1:08.88; 2. Victoria Lattizori, W, 1:11.06; 3. Brianna Lucey, W, 1:24.14.
100 breaststroke: 1. Emily Capogna, W, 1:27.13; 2. Leah Wallace, P, 1:33.95; 3. Abby Kunzmann, W, 1:36.33.
400 free relay: 1. Pittsfield (Vittum, Maloy, Holcomb, Griffin) 4:44.04; 2. Wahconah, 4:53.95; 3. Wahconah, 5:38.03.
Boys
Wahconah 56, Pittsfield 36
Medley relay: 1. Wahconah (Spratt, Ryan, Sancho, Kaley) 2:10.38; 2. Pittsfield, 2:21.19; 3. Wahconah, 3:03.75.
200 free: 1. Artois Sancho, W, 2:27.33; 2. David Bernal, P, 2:31.25; A. Smith, 3:13.59.
200 IM: 1. Kalen Spratt, W, 3:01.09; 2. Jack Walton, W, 3:16.58.
50 free: 1. Tim Kaley, W, 28.00; 2. A. Tullock, P, 31.27; 3. A. Weiner, P, 33.63.
100 fly: 1. David Bernal, P, 1:24.27; 2. Tim Kaley, W, 1:25.71; 3. Jack Walton, W, 1:42.56.
100 free: 1. Artois Sancho, W, 1:04.82; 2. A. Tullock, P, 1:10.82; 3. A. Weiner, P, 1:20.47.
500 free: 1. Joseph Kearns, P, 5:41.12; 2. Brayden Ryan, W, 6:59.26; 3. Camdyn LaPointe, W, 8:45.28.
200 free relay: 1. Pittsfield (Kearns, Smith, Tullock, Bernal) 1:58.38; 2. Wahconah, 1:59.95; 3. Wahconah, 2:54.69.
100 backstroke: 1. Joseph Kearns, P, 1:06.99; 2. Kalen Spratt, W, 1:16.39; 3. Logan Kunde, W, 1:42.56.
100 breaststroke: 1. Brayden Ryan, W, 1:24.07; 2. A. Smith, P, 1:44.45; 3. Henry McCoy, W, 1:56.22.
400 free relay: 1. Wahconah (LaPointe, Kunde, Spratt, McCoy) 6:01.61; 2. Wahconah, 6:03.82.