Sophia Galko won two individual events and was a member of a winning relay to lead Scranton Prep to an 86-80 win over Abington Heights on Thursday night at the University of Scranton in a battle of Lackawanna League girls swimming unbeatens.<\/p>\n
Galko won the 100-yard butterfly and the 100 backstroke, and teamed with Eva Kaszuba, Ella Schofield and Anna Millett to win the 200 medley relay for the Classics (7-0).<\/p>\n
The meet featured several exciting finishes with both teams having All-Region swimmers.<\/p>\n
Galko edged Abington Heights senior Gianna Vachino to win the 100 fly. Rebecca Oakes, last season\u2019s Times-Tribune Female Swimmer of the Year, touched ahead of Abington Heights\u2019 Katie Giermanski and teammate Kaszuba to win the 50 free, and added a win in the 100 free.<\/p>\n
Kaszuba and Schofield finished 1-2 in the 100 breaststroke for Scranton Prep.<\/p>\n
Hadley Pallman won the 200 free and 500 free for Abington Heights (6-1). She was also the anchor swimmer for the Lady Comets\u2019 thrilling wins in the 200 free relay and 400 free relay.<\/p>\n
Pallman joined Vachino, Kacey Johnson, and Giermanski to win the 200 free relay with a time of 1:45.70. The Lady Comets finished ahead of Scranton Prep\u2019s team of Kaszuba, Myla Kopa, Schoefield and Oakes (1:45.87).<\/p>\n
In the final race of the night, Vachino, Johnson, Reese Azar and Pallman won the 400 free relay in 3:59.66. Abington Heights touched the wall just ahead of Scranton Prep\u2019s team of Millett, Kopa, Galko, and Oakes (4:00.91).<\/p>\n
200 Medley Relay:\u00a0Scranton Prep (Galko, Kaszuba, Schofield, Millett) 1:59.57, AH, SP;\u00a0200 Free:\u00a0Hadley Pallman (AH) 2:13.10, Azar (AH), Kokosovsky (SP);\u00a0200 IM:\u00a0Ella Schofield (SP) 2:21.28, Vachino (AH), Johnson (AH);\u00a050 Free: Rebecca Oakes (SP) 25.71, Giermanski (AH), Kazuba (SP);\u00a0100 Fly:\u00a0Sophia Galko (SP) 1:05.14, Vachino (AH), Millett (SP); 100 Free:\u00a0Rebecca Oakes (SP) 56.92, Azar (AH), Kopa (SP); 500 Free:\u00a0Hadley Pallman (AH) 5:35.69, Millett (SP), Shursky (SP); 200 Free Relay: Abington Heights (Vachino, Bannon, Giermanski, Pallman) 1:45.70, SP, AH; 100 Back: Sophia Galko (SP) 1:06.37, Johnson (AH), Kolosovsky (SP); 100 Breast: Eva Kaszuba (SP) 1:07.87, Schofield (SP), Giermanski (AH); 400 Free Relay: Abington Heights (Vachino, Johnson, Azar, Pallman) 3:59.66; Records: SP 7-0, AH 6-1.<\/p>\n
Elk Lake 101, Holy Cross 8:\u00a0Brynn Warriner and Chelsea Grosvenor each won two individual events and were part of two winning relay teams to lead Elk Lake to a win.<\/p>\n
Allison Long added two wins, McKenna Puterbaugh won the 500 freestyle and was part of two winning relays, and Avery Kerr won the 100 butterfly for the Lady Warriors.<\/p>\n
200 Medley Relay: Elk Lake ( Puterbaugh, Bell, Grosvenor, Warriner) 2:18.31; EL; 200 Free: Warriner (EL) 2:21.23, Stang (EL);\u00a0 200 IM: Chelsea Grosvenor (EL) 2:36.91, Kerr (EL); 50 Free: Allison Long (EL) 30.91, C, Polishan (HC), Puterbaugh (EL); 100 Fly: Avery Kerr (EL) 1:19.65, Howell (EL); 100 Free: Brynn Warriner (EL) 1:01.66, Bell (EL); 500 Free: McKenna Puterbaugh (EL) 6:46.79, C. Polishan (HC); 200 Free Relay: Elk Lake (Grosvenor, Howell, Kerr, Stang) 2:01.19; 100 Back: Allison Long (EL) 1:22.27, Howell (EL); 100 Breast: Chelsea Grosvenor (EL) 1:26.1; 400 Free Relay: Elk Lake (Long, Bell, Puterbaugh, Warriner) 4:48.91; Records: EL 4-3, HC 1-6.<\/p>\n
Boys swimming<\/p>\n
Jason Casper and Derek Williams won a pair of individual events and were part of two winning relay teams to lead undefeated Abington Heights to a 119-45 win over Scranton Prep in the Lackawanna League.<\/p>\n
Lukas Iannone won the 200 IM and 100 back to lead Scranton Prep, which suffered its first loss of the season.<\/p>\n
200 Medley Relay:\u00a0Abington Heights (Stanton, Williams, Voytek, Azar) 1:44.06, SP, AH;\u00a0200 Free:\u00a0Jason Casper (AH) 1:49.67, J. Donnelly (AH), Baker (AH);\u00a0200 IM:\u00a0Lukas Iannone (SP) 2:02.70, Stanton (AH), A. Allspaugh (AH);\u00a050 Free: Derek Williams (AH) 21.97, Kessler (SP), O\u2019Malley (SP);\u00a0100 Fly:\u00a0Jason Casper (AH) 53.49, DeVitto (SP), Lin (AH);\u00a0100 Free:\u00a0Judah Donnelly (AH) 53.95, Azar, A. Allspaugh (AH); 500 Free: Charles Voytek (AH) 5:24.07, R. Donnelly (AH) Goldberg (AH);\u00a0200 Free Relay:\u00a0Abington Heights (Casper, Stanton, J. Donnelly, Williams) 1:34.54, AH, SP;\u00a0100 Back: Lukas Iannone (SP) 52.73, Stanton (AH), Kessler (SP);\u00a0100 Breast:\u00a0Derek Williams (AH) 1:04.54, Azar (AH), Voytek (AH);\u00a0400 Free Relay:\u00a0Abington Heights (Voytek, Baker, J. Donnelly, Casper) 3:34.31, SP, AH;\u00a0Records:\u00a0AH 7-0, SP 6-1.<\/p>\n
Elk Lake 70, Holy Cross 48: Nico Christian won two individual events and was part of two winning relay teams to lead Elk Lake.<\/p>\n
Isaac Dilmore and Isaiah Jones each won an individual event and were part of two winning relays.<\/p>\n
Leo Cholish won the 200 IM and 100 back and Simon Madore won the 100 fly and 500 free for Holy Cross.<\/p>\n
200 Medley Relay: No Contest; 200 Free: Isaac Dilmore (EL) 2:13.41, Ball (EL), Monroe (HC); 200 IM: Leo Cholish (HC) 2:20.23; Jones (EL); 50 Free: Nico Christian (EL) 27.05, Ball (EL), Monroe (HC); 100 Fly: Simon Madore (HC) 1:00.89, Dilmore (EL); 100 Free: Nico Christian (EL) 1:01.9, Hollister (EL), Kennedy (HC); 500 Free: Simon Madore (HC) 6:40.54, Bernard (EL); 200 Free Relay: Elk Lake (Jones, Dilmore, Christian, Ball) 1:49.29, HC 1:50.8; 100 Back: Leo Cholish (HC) 1:19.39, Bernard (EL); 100 Breast: Isaiah Jones (EL) 1:24.76, Snedeker (HC); 400 Free Relay: Elk Lake (Ball, Christian, Dilmore, Jones) 4:08.04, HC;\u00a0Records:\u00a0EL 3-4, HC 2-5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sophia Galko won two individual events and was a member of a winning relay to lead Scranton Prep…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-100456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-high-school-sports","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}