Lukas Iannone had a school-record-setting morning, and the Scranton Prep girls are in position to have a heavy medal haul at the PIAA Class 2A Swimming and Diving Championships.<\/p>\n
Iannone, a senior at Scranton Prep who is committed to The College of the Holy Cross, had the second-fastest swim in the preliminary races for the 200-yard individual medley on Thursday. He clocked at 1 minute, 54.31 seconds to better his District 2 Class 2A winning time of 1:54.81 at Bucknell University\u2019s Kinney Natatorium.<\/p>\n
Northgate senior Sam Cavanaugh had the top time in the qualifying with a 1:50.90.<\/p>\n
The top eight times from the preliminary session advanced to the championship final. The second group of eight reached the B final. The boys\u2019 finals and consolation races are at 4:30 p.m. The girls race at 7:05 p.m.<\/p>\n
While Iannone had the best individual performance in the morning races among Lackawanna League swimmers, the Scranton Prep girls\u2019 team stood out across the entire session.<\/p>\n
Rebecca Oakes posted a qualifying time of 58.31 to advance with the fourth-best effort in the 100 butterfly, while North Pocono freshman Alexandra Johnson advanced to the B final of the 100 fly with the 14th-best time of 1:00. 53. Hampton senior Lainey Sheets had the best time of 54.39.<\/p>\n
Ella Schofield had a major drop in time in the 200 individual medley with a 2:11.47 to qualify fifth for the championship final. She crushed her District 2 time of 2:11.47.<\/p>\n
Dallas freshman Locklynn Bienkowski, the District 2 champion, qualified with the second-best time of 2:08.27. Shady Side Academy junior Ava Jochims had the top time of 2:01.76.<\/p>\n
Scranton Prep\u2019s 200 medley relay team had the second-fastest time of 1:48.91. Shady Side Academy was just ahead with a time of 1:48.20. Scranton Prep\u2019s 200 free relay team had the fifth-best qualifying time of 1:41.08. Franklin Regional clocked the fastest time of 1:38.74.<\/p>\n
Overall, it was a successful morning for District 2 athletes.<\/p>\n
Tunkhannock senior Jaden Baltrusaitis also qualified for the final in the 50 freestyle with the second-best time of 21.16. His teammate Kyle Kozloski is also in the final with the fourth-best time of 21.25. Donegal junior Colton Houck had a time of 20.98.<\/p>\n
Tunkhannock\u2019s 200 free relay had the fastest qualifying time of 1:26.07, and its 200 medley relay had the sixth-best time of 1:38.84.<\/p>\n
Scranton Prep\u2019s team reached the B final with a time of 1:41.87, which was the 15th-best of the preliminary heats.<\/p>\n
Holy Cross sophomore Leo Cholish finished 18th in the 100 fly with a time of 53.80 that improved on his District 2 time of 54.28.<\/p>\n
Scranton Prep\u2019s Ben Kessler finished 19th in the 200 free with a time of 1:48.62, Dallas\u2019 Chase Kresge was 25th (1:49.60), and Tunkhannock\u2019s Braydon Christopher was 31st (1:52.49).<\/p>\n
Dallas senior Nico Wilk finished 28th in the 200 IM with a time of 2:05.66 and 32nd in the 100 fly (57.83).<\/p>\n
Holy Cross senior Simon Madore finished 19th in the 50 free (22.19).<\/p>\n
Dallas finished 17th (1:31.38), and Lake-Lehman was 19th (1:31.61) in the 200 free relay. Scranton Prep\u2019s team was disqualified.<\/p>\n
Girls<\/p>\n
Dallas freshman Macie Stauffer advanced into the championship final of the 200 free with the eighth-best time of 1:56.75. Schuylkill Valley junior Mabel Walborn had the top time of 1:52.77.<\/p>\n
The Dallas 200 medley relay team is in the B final with a 1:51.27 that was 10th-best in qualifying.<\/p>\n
Elk Lake senior Brynn Warriner had a time of 24.98 in the 50 free and finished 18th overall. Scranton Prep\u2019s Sophia Galko was 31st (25.77).<\/p>\n
Elk Lake\u2019s 200 free relay team finished 17th, just missing the B final with a time of 1:44.54.<\/p>\n
Dallas\u2019 Maria-Lucia Priore finished 31st in the 100 fly (1:03.44).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lukas Iannone had a school-record-setting morning, and the Scranton Prep girls are in position to have a heavy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-137587","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\/137587","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=137587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}