By Rich Palzewic
Sports editor
Photos by Murray Gleffe
SUAMICO – The Bay Port girls’ swimming and diving team has won its fifth consecutive Fox River Classic Conference title.
The Pirates outdistanced De Pere by a 527.5 to 351 margin at the Lineville Community Pool Oct. 27 to win the title.
De Pere finished second for the first time ever, while Green Bay United placed third and Ashwaubenon fourth.
Bay Port took the top two spots in the 1-meter diving competition, with Sasha Sasha Sliwinski (373.05) and Elle Thibert (358.55) having strong showings.
Other Bay Port winners include Emma Lasecki in the 200 IM (2:05.27) and the 100 butterfly (57.22), Sydney Aird in the 100 breaststroke (1:08.37) and the 400 freestyle relay team of Riley Melendy, Emily Calaway, Lacy Geurts and Lasecki (3:43.25).
Lasecki set pool records in her two victories.
De Pere’s Bri Zablocki, who recently committed to swim at UW-Milwaukee, was victorious in the 100 freestyle (54.31), while Lauren Finstad swam to a winning time of 1:58.61 in the 200 freestyle.
Ashwaubenon’s Hallory Domnick was the lone winner for the Jaguars in the 500 freestyle (5:15.72).
The swimming and diving sectionals will take place Nov. 2-3, with the WIAA state meet in Madison Nov. 9-10.
Bay Port and De Pere will compete at the D1 sectional meet in Neenah, while Ashwaubenon will host its D2 sectional.
FRCC team results – Oct. 27
1 Bay Port 527.50, 2 De Pere 351, 3 Green Bay United 325, 4 Ashwaubenon 306, 5 Sheboygan North 228, 6 Manitowoc Lincoln 210, 7 Pulaski 206.50, 8 Sheboygan South 21.
FRCC top five individual results
200-yard freestyle relay: 1, GBU, 1:52.11 (Ella Sieber, Brigitta Neverman, Violet Anderson, Annabelle Metzler); 2, BP, 1:52.23 (Riley Melendy, Sydney Aird, Emma Lasecki, Adie Tooley); 3, ASH, 1:56.73 (Sydney Popp, Jocelyn McNicoll, Hallory Domnick, Evelyn Geurts); 4, PUL, 1:57.30 (Rachel Stumpf, Sam Van Donsel, Jenna Binkowski, Grace Behnke); 5, SN, 1:57.54 (Lauren Hayon, Kierra Perez, Gigi Gotzmer, Taylor Gutschow).
200 freestyle: 1, Lauren Finstad, DP, 1:58.61; 2, Domnick, ASH, 1:59.82; 3, Sieber, GBU, 2:02.03; 4, Popp, ASH, 2:02.90; 5, Emily Calaway, BP, 2:03.29.
200 individual medley: 1, Lasecki, BP, 2:05.27; 2, Neverman, GBU, 2:08.08; 3, Melendy, BP, 2:13.67; 4, Tooley, BP, 2:17.59; 5, Stumpf, PUL, 2:19.58.
50 freestyle: 1, Metzler, GBU, 24.64; 2, L. Finstad, DP, 24.87; 3, Anderson, GBU, 25.28; 4, Lacy Geurts, BP, 25.59; 5, Binkowski, PUL, 25.82.
100 butterfly: 1, Lasecki, BP, 57.22; 2, Anderson, GBU, 1:00.86; 3, Mia Strazny, ML, 1:02.97; 4, Bailey Venden, DP, 1:04.24; 5, Gotzmer, SN, 1:04.44.
100 freestyle: 1, B. Zablocki, 54.31; 2, Geurts, BP, 55.28; 3, Metzler, GBU, 55.76; 4 Binkowski, PUL, 56.47; 5, L. Finstad, DP, 58.72.
500 freestyle: 1, Domnick, ASH, 5:15.72; 2, Calaway, BP, 5:20.31; 3, Sieber, GBU, 5:25.50; 4, Popp, ASH, 5:30.06; 5, Perez, SN, 5:34.12.
200 freestyle relay: 1, GBU, 1:40.65 (Metlzer, Anderson, Sieber, Neverman); 2, DP, 1:42.51 (Jenna Finstad, L. Finstad, Venden, B. Zablocki); 3, BP, 1:45.52 (Tooley, Emily Zimmer, Calaway, Geurts); 4, ML, 1:45.66 (Kalina Kinzel, Rayna Georgenson, Morgan Meyer, Mia Strazny); 5, SN, 1:47.80 (Hayon, Gutschow, Perez, Gotzmer).
100 backstroke: 1, Neverman, GBU, 58.60; 2, Melendy, BP, 58.75; 3, Strazny, ML, 1:03.42; 4 Liz Ely, BP, 1:04.36; 5, Behnke, PUL, 1:05.07.
100 breaststroke: 1, Aird, BP, 1:08.37, 2, B. Zablocki, DP, 1:08.84; 3, McNicoll, ASH, 1:11.05; 4 Tooley, BP, 1:12.05; 5, Jennifer Peng, GBU, 1:13.29.
400 freestyle relay: 1, BP, 3:43.25 (Melendy, Calaway, Geurts, Lasecki); 2, DP, 3:44.13 (Venden, L. Finstad, Danika Zablocki, B. Zablocki); 3, ASH, 3:51.78 (Geurts, McNicoll, Popp, Domnick); 4, ML, 3:53.29 (Meyer, Georgenson, Kalina Kinzel, Strazny); 5, PUL, 3:55.22 (Stumpf, Van Donsel, Behnke, Binkowski).
