Manhattan High girls\u2019 swimming captured the team title Friday at the Marion Invitational, finishing with 361 points in a tightly contested meet.<\/p>\n
The Indians edged Garden City (339) and host Marion (338), flipping the script from an earlier loss to Garden City this season to secure the victory against a strong field.<\/p>\n
Manhattan opened the meet with a fourth-place finish in the 200-yard medley relay, as the group of Delaney Saucier, Caris Goering, Ava McKee and Ashtan Hansen touched in 2:14.49.<\/p>\n
Individually, the Indians were paced by strong finishes in the individual medley, where McKee placed third at 2:38.53 and Saucier followed in fifth. Kami Spencer added a seventh-place finish to give Manhattan three scorers in the event.<\/p>\n
In the sprint events, Aubrey Niedermayer led the way with a seventh-place finish in the 50 freestyle, while Hansen followed in eighth and Ellie Lund added a 10th-place finish.<\/p>\n
Saucier highlighted Manhattan\u2019s effort in the butterfly with a fourth-place finish, while Lund placed sixth and Kieryn Copp added a ninth-place showing.<\/p>\n
Hansen paced the Indians in the 100 freestyle with an eighth-place finish, while Niedermayer and Mary Brighton also scored.<\/p>\n
In the distance events, Goering delivered one of Manhattan\u2019s top swims of the meet, placing second in the 500 freestyle at 6:14.83. McKee followed in fourth, and Brady Inman added an eighth-place finish.<\/p>\n
The Indians added another key relay performance in the 200 freestyle relay, placing fourth behind the team of Niedermayer, Madilyn Powell, Brighton and Saucier.<\/p>\n
In the backstroke, Lyla Buser led Manhattan with a sixth-place finish, followed by Makenna Dobson in ninth and Mallory Pecenka in 10th.<\/p>\n
Goering, Spencer and Powell added three scoring swims in the 100 breaststroke.<\/p>\n
Manhattan closed the meet with a win in the 400 freestyle relay, as the team of Niedermayer, Hansen, McKee and Goering placed first in 4:20.77 to seal the team title.<\/p>\n
Manhattan is now off from meet competition for the next two weeks as it prepares for the Centennial League meet on May 14.<\/p>\n
Manhattan results<\/p>\n
200 medley relay: 4. Saucier, Goering, McKee, Hansen 2:14.49<\/p>\n
200 free: 8. Gray 2:34.70; 11. Sanneman 2:42.22; 12. Villoria 2:42.90<\/p>\n
200 IM: 3. McKee 2:38.53; 5. Saucier 2:47.62; 7. Spencer 2:50.87<\/p>\n
50 free: 7. Niedermayer 29.31; 8. Hansen 29.40; 10. Lund 30.31<\/p>\n
100 butterfly: 4. Saucier 1:17.37; 6. Lund 1:20.53; 9. Copp 1:26.15<\/p>\n
100 free: 8. Hansen 1:04.78; 10. Niedermayer 1:07.36; 11. Brighton 1:08.01<\/p>\n
500 free: 2. Goering 6:14.83; 4. McKee 6:21.79; 8. Inman 7:21.07<\/p>\n
200 free relay: 4. Niedermayer, Powell, Brighton, Saucier 2:02.25<\/p>\n
100 backstroke: 6. Buser 1:22.40; 9. Dobson 1:25.72; 10. Pecenka 1:26.44<\/p>\n
100 breaststroke: 6. Goering 1:23.93; 7. Spencer 1:26.03; 9. Powell 1:28.21<\/p>\n
400 free relay: 1. Niedermayer, Hansen, McKee, Goering 4:20.77<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manhattan High girls\u2019 swimming captured the team title Friday at the Marion Invitational, finishing with 361 points in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[32556,32555,25601,83199,26039,75,84,83,32551,9,24,63,32558,9225,4886,32552,32553,11472,32557,32554],"class_list":["post-210184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-aquatics","tag-athletic-sports","tag-competition","tag-freestyle-swimming","tag-individual-sports","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-medley-swimming","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-outdoor-recreation-techniques","tag-outdoor-sports","tag-racing","tag-relay-race","tag-solo-activities","tag-swimming","tag-swimming-styles","tag-water-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}