Kingston fifth at OCIAA championships

WASHINGTONVILLE, N.Y. >> Freshman Ellie Meyer won the 100-yard breaststroke Saturday, leading Kingston High to a fifth place in the Orange County Interscholastic Athletic Association Division 1 girls swimming and diving championships.

Meyer won the breaststroke in 1:12.64, defeating Pine Bush’s Mackenzie Gula by five-hundreths of a second. Monroe-Woodbury’s Kelsey O’Brien was less than a quarter of a second behind Meyer, who slashed 3.38 seconds off her time to meet the Section 9 standard. Meyer also swam a season-best 56.57 for eighth in the 100-freestyle, which also met the sectional cut.

“I took a chance of putting Ellie in the breast. She had only did it once this year. I had been looking for events to put her in for sectionals,” said Kingston coach Chris Sammons, who also had Meyer swimming anchor for the 200and 400-free relays.

Both teams posted season bests with Mackenzie Quinn, Isabella Amaro, Emily McCord and Meyer doing 1:44.47 in the 200 and 3:49.14 in the 400 for fifth and fourth place respectively.

Amaro was fourth in the backstroke with a 1:02.86 and that also met the sectional standard. Sabrina Browning was sixth in the diving held Thursday with a PR of 367.50 points.

Also meeting sectional standards were Mallory Sullivan and Alexa Peck in the 200-free, McCord in the 50-free, Amaro and McCord in the 100-free and Sullivan in the 500-free.

“To get the amount for quality swims today was great,” Sammons said.

Shadowing the Tigers were Rondout Valley’s Alexandra Kassian and Abigail Chrorzempa. Kassian qualified for sectionals with a 1:04.02 in the backstroke and a 1:09.53 in the breaststroke, while Chrorzempa made it with a 30.64 in the 50-free.

How Kingston swimmers fared:

200 medley relay: 6. (Angelina Vertullo, Emily Constance, Alexa Peck, Jeanine Ohene Agyei) 2:04.15

200 free: 8. Mallory Sullivan 2:06.05; 14. Alexa Peck 2:09.97; 21. Caroline Steeves 2:14.53

200 IM: 10. Angelina Vertullo 2:32.39; 11. Emily Constance 2:33.54; 14. Jeanine Ohene Agyei 2:35.18; 18. Abigail Mitchell 2:45.26

50 free: 8. Mackenzie Quinn 26.32; 9. Emily McCord 26.34; 29. Carly Ford 29.60

Diving: 6. Sabrina Browning 367.50; 9. Emily Hakim 319.30

100 fly: 10. Alexa Peck 1:08.64; 15. Parker Ball 1:10.49; 18. Angelina Vertullo 1:12.64

100 free: 8. Eleanora Meyer 56.57; 9. Isabella Amaro 57.63; 12. Emily McCord 58.37; 36. Gillian Cornelison 1:04.86

500 free: 9. Mallory Sullivan 5:39.33; 21. Caroline Steeves 6:00.22; 27. Vivienne Airhart 6:39.75

200 free relay: 5. (Mackenzie Quinn, Isabella Amaro, Emily McCord, Eleanora Meyer) 1:44.47

100 back: 4. Isabella Amaro 1:02.86; 27. Parker Ball 1:10.76; 29. Gillian Cornelison 1:12.06

100 breast: 1. Eleanora Meyer 1:12.64; 7. Emily Constance 1:16.18; 14. Jeanine Ohene Agyei 1:19.07; 18. Carly Ford 1:20.62; 19. Abigail Mitchell 1:20.71; 24. Sierra Ramirez 1:23.20

400 free relay: 4. (Mackenzie Quinn, Isabella Amaro, Emily McCord, Eleanora Meyer) 3:49.14