The Sacred Heart girls swimming and diving team finished fourth in the NVL meet on Friday at Kennedy High School’s John Reardon Pool.
It was the best finish by a local team at the meet, which Seymour won handily with 819.5 points. Naugatuck (748) and Woodland Regional (699) were second and third, followed by Sacred Heart in fourth (658.5). St. Paul was eighth, Wilby took ninth and Kennedy finished in 10th out of 10 teams.
Sacred Heart junior Elizabeth Brown had the best individual night of any local swimmer. Brown took first in the 100-yard freestyle in 56.67 seconds. She was second in the backstroke and helped the 400 freestyle relay finish second. The relay was made up of Kylie McCue, Sarah Griffith, Ava Longo and Brown. The same quartet took third place in the 200 medley relay. Sacred Heart’s 200 freestyle relay of Nicole Molina, Kylee Dubroski, Trista Caron and Victoria Turrell placed fourth. Individually, McCue was second in the 500 freestyle, Longo placed third in the 100 breaststroke and Griffith had a pair of fourth place finishes (100 backstroke, tied in 200 freestyle).
St. Paul freshman Amelia Bradzioch had a solid NVL postseason debut with a third place finish in the 200 freestyle and a sixth place finish in the 500 freestyle.
Wilby’s 200 freestyle relay (Xarai Rivera, Katelyn Lambo, Alanna Lopes, Madeline Kosa) had the best finish, taking eighth place. The top finish for Kennedy was ninth in the 200 freestyle relay (Arianna Cruz, Isabella Gaspard, Stephanie Aquino, Himalay Torres).
Go to the Waterbury Republican-American website The Zone to see full results.
