Kingston places 3rd at OCIAA meet
Kingston High’s young girls swimming and diving team placed third Saturday at the Orange County Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Division I championship meet.
The Tigers totaled 368 points with only champion MonroeWoodbury (435) and runner-up Pine Bush (368) ahead of them.
Senior Kelly Manley and freshman Alexandra Mitchell led Kingston. Manley took third (1:01.82) in the butterfly and fifth (1:04.34) in the backstroke. Mitchell was third (2:29.37) in the individual medley and fourth (5:36.80) in the 500-yard freestyle.
Eleanora Meyer, an eighthgrader, and sophomore Isabella Amaro also big days for the Tigers. Meyer took fourth (57.66) in the 100-free, while Amaro was sixth (58.46) in the 100-free and eighth (1:05.77) in the backstroke.
Meyer, Mitchell teamed with sophomore Mackenzie Quinn and eighth-grader Emily McCord to take third in the 200-free relay with a 1:46.79. Another eighthgrader, Angelina Vertuallo, joined Amaro, Manley and Quinn for fourth (1:59.17) in the 200-medley relay. Team scores: Winners & How Kingston Athletes Fared: Monroe-Woodbury (MW) 435, Pine Bush (PB) 368, Kingston (K) 302, Valley Central (VC) 272.5, Washingtonville (Wash) 243, Newburgh (NFA)
(NFA) 196.5, Minisink Valley (MV) 195, Middletown 91. 200 medley relay: 1. Pine Bush; 4. Kingston (Isabella Amaro, Angelina Vertullo, Kelly Manley, Mackenzie Quinn) 1:59.17 200 free: 1. Allison Armistead (VC) 1:59.68; 8. Alexa Peck (K) 2:07.33; 20. Parker Ball (K) 2:11.92 200 IM: 1. Lauren Beneat (MW) 2:17.38; 3. Alexandra Mitchell (K) 2:29.37; 10. Angelina Vertullo (K) 2:27.03; 18. Emily Constance (K) 2:32.60; 23. Abigail Mitchell 9K) 2:38.11 50 free: 1. Abigail Gibbons (MV) 25.03; 6. Mackenzie Quinn (K) 26.78; 12. Helen Wunderlich (K) 27.33; 15. Emily Hakim (K) 27.51; 17. Emily McCord (K) 27.71; 32. Lauren Hoetger (K) 31.78 Diving: 1. Danielle Scarano (NFA) 482.90; 11. Julia Stinemire (K) 237.60, 12. Sabrina Browning (K) 331.60; 22. Evangilia Demosthenes (K) 281.60 100 fly: 1. Allie Vela (NFA) 59.76; 3. Kelly Manley (K) 1:01.82; 8. Alexa Peck (K) 1:05.79; 18. Parker Ball (K) 1:11.33 100 free: 1. Paige Bacigal (Wash) 55.10; 4. Eleanora Meyer (K) 57.66; 6. Isabella Amaro (K) 58.46; 9. Mackenzie Quinn (K) 59.07; 12. Emily Hakim (K) 59.71; 18. Emily McCord (K) 1:00.87 500 free: 1. Mackenzie Tuttle (MW) 5:16.83; 4. Alexandra Mitchell (K) 5:36.80; 20. Caroline Steeves (K) 6:11.02; 22. Abigail Olenski (K) 6:22.18
200 free relay: 1. Monroe-Woodbury 1:42.06; 3. Kingston (Mackenzie Quinn, Eleanora Meyer, Emily McCord, Alexandra Mitchell) 1:46.79
100 back: 1. Deanna Caceres (PB) 1:00.05; 5. Kelly Manley (K) 1:04.34; 8. Isabella Amaro (K) 1:05.77; 25. Gillian Cornelison (K) 1:14.72; 31. Lauren Hoetger (K) 1:20.25
100 breast: 1. Abigail Gibbons (MV) 1:06.48; 2. 7. Angelina Vertullo (K) 1:15.36; 8. Emily Constance (K) 1:16.37; 20. Jeanine Ohene Agye (K) 1:19.60; 21. Abigail Mitchell (K) 1:19.77; 30. Jenna Markel (K) 1:27.95
400 free relay: 1. Monroe-Woodbury 3:43.22; 5. Kingston (Eleanora Meyer, Emily McCord, Alexa Peck, Alexandra Mitchell) 3:53.37