North Bay swimmers make a splash at league championship meet – The Press Democrat

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As the top of the spring prep sports activities season nears, the highway to a potential state title turns into clearer for native opponents.

And for swimmers within the North Bay League, that highway started with this weekend’s league championship meet at Santa Rosa Junior College. Preliminary heats passed off Friday, main into Saturday’s finals on a busy day at SRJC’s Quinn Swim Center.

It was a depressing, overcast morning in Santa Rosa, however the Maria Carrillo swimmers shined brightest by successful each the girls and boys workforce titles. The Pumas had 497 factors on the boys’ facet and 454 for the women.

In truth, the highest three workforce scores had been the identical for each girls and boys: Maria Carrillo at No. 1, adopted by Cardinal Newman after which Analy.

Plenty of people had stellar days as effectively, together with Analy’s Travis Black. A double winner in his closing league championship meet as he eyes a return journey to the state championships subsequent month, Black gained the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:42.74 and the 100 backstroke with a time of 51.53. His backstroke time mechanically certified Black for the North Coast Section championships, whereas the freestyle mark is an NCS consideration time.

“It definitely felt like I picked it up as the day went on,” Black mentioned. “I felt my 100 back was a bit better than my 200 free.”

Cardinal Newman’s Sienna Menconi, like Black additionally a returning state qualifier, was a triple winner Saturday. She began off with the 200-yard medley relay workforce as they gained with a time of 1:53.87, simply lacking out on an NCS computerized qualification time however effectively throughout the consideration ranks.

She then dominated the 100-yard freestyle, together with her time of 51.94 beating the second-place finisher by practically three seconds. That’s practically a second forward of the NCS qualification threshold.

Then, to cap her off her day, Menconi took care of enterprise within the 100 backstroke. In one of the anticipated races of the day — that includes two 2025 state qualifiers in Menconi and Healdsburg’s Layla Greaves (who earlier gained the 200-yard particular person medley), the Newman senior led begin to end with a time of 57.15, whereas Greaves completed with a 59.57.

“The races were pretty close together, so there was a point where I had to decide when I wanted to do my warmup,” Menconi mentioned. “I just kept calm and focused and had to work around it. I think today went pretty good overall.”

Carrillo’s groups had a plethora of multiple-race winners inside their ranks, together with Emmerson Lee, Lucas Wang, Samuel Kiehl and Delanie Wangler. All 4 helped their 200-yard freestyle relay groups set private bests, with the women at 1:48.59 and the boys at 1:27.36.

One of one of the best tales of the day got here from Sidney Ross of Piner. Ross took first place within the 100-yard butterfly to turn out to be Piner’s first particular person women league champion in additional than 20 years.

“It’s incredible,” Ross mentioned. “I was a little nervous because I didn’t do to well yesterday (in the preliminary round), but I wanted to win and I did it. I can’t believe that I’m on top!”

Cardinal Newman’s James Gannon, after setting the meet document within the boys’ 100-yard breaststroke a day earlier, broke it once more Saturday with a 58.31. Gannon was a double winner on the day as effectively.

Newman’s 400-yard freestyle relay workforce additionally saved its greatest for final. The workforce of Jose Becerra, Luke Farquhar, Fisher Brophy and Gannon set a brand new workforce greatest and a faculty document with a 3:19.72. That shattered a mark that had stood for 26 years by greater than 4 seconds.

Swimmers will now have a few weeks to arrange earlier than the NCS championships May 8 and 9 at College of Marin’s Indian Valley campus.