Elk Lake’s Adam Phillips heads to victory in the 100-yard breaststroke on Saturday. TIMES-SHAMROCK PHOTO/FRANK C. LAURI
Elk Lake’s Adam Phillips and picked up a gold medal at the District II Class AA finals at the Wilkes-Barre CYC on Friday and Saturday.
Phillips, a junior, took first in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:00.93, nearly one second ahead of Dallas’ Brandon Harding, who finished at 1:01.90.
“I knew I just had to swim my race,” said the top-sseded Phillips. “I knew I could swim a one (minute) flat. I was hoping that’d be enough and it ended up being enough.”
Elk Lake’s Chelsea Karabin took a second place finish in the 100 freestyle in 55.79 and a third place in the 50 freestyle at 25.21. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN WOODRUFF
Phillips qualified for the state championship taking place at Bucknell University from Mar. 16-19.
Phillips also grabbed a second place medal for the Warriors with a 2:03.54 finish in the 200 IM behind Holy Redeemer’s Connor Boyle, who was two-tenths of a second faster.
Elk Lake’s Chelsea Karabin took second place in the 100 freestyle at 55.79 while Holy Redeemer’s Elizabeth Finnegan took first at 55.53.
Warrior Abby Zdancewicz took second place in the 500 freestyle at 5:30.19, while Scranton Prep’s Maria Nonneneberg took first at 5:09.37. Zdancewicz also took a fifth place medal in the 200 freestyle at 2:04.26.
The Warrior 400 free relay team of Rina Nikolaidis, Emmie Gibson, Zdancewicz and Karabin took second place at 3:50.29, while Scranton Prep took first at 3:46.12.
Halloran also had a third place finish in the 200 freestyle with a time of 2:01.18 behind Holy Cross’ Megan Carey in first at 2:00.18.
Karabin took third place in the 50 freestyle at 25.21 while Scranton Prep’s Rebekah Campo took first at 24.05.
Elk Lake’s 400 free relay team of Cody Mowry, Brad Grosvenor, Alex Manzek and Adam Phillips took a fourth place medal as the team finished in 3:37.94.
Elk Lake’s 200 freestyle relay team of John Kreig, Cody Mowry, Brad Grosvenor and Adam Phillips takes the podium after finishing the event in sixth place. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN WOODRUFF
The Warrior 200 free relay team of Mowry, Grosvenor, John Kreig and Phillips medaled with a sixth place finish at 1:37.18.
Elk Lake’s boys’ 200 medley relay team (Codie Malloy, Alex Manzek, Grosvenor, Kreig) took eighth place at 2:04.28.
AA Boys Team Standings: 1-Dallas 343; 2-Holy Redeemer 218.5; 3. Valley View 154; 4-Scranton Prep 140; 5-Berwick 129; 6-Crestwood 98; 7-Elk Lake 93.5; 8-Hanover Area 73; 9-Wyoming Seminary 28; 10-West Scranton 17; 11-Lake-Lehman 9; 12-Meyers 5; 13-Wyoming Area 1.
AA Girls Team Standings: 1-Holy Redeemer 284; 2-Scranton Prep 262.5; 3-Dallas 146.5; 4-Tunkhannock 123; 5-Elk Lake 93; 6-Crestwood 73; 7-Berwick 71; 7-Valley View 71; 9-Pittston 67; 10-Wyoming Area 66; 11-Hanover 48; 12-Meyers 41; 13-Greater Nanticoke 9; 14-Lake-Lehman 2; 14-Wyoming Seminary 4; 16-Dunmore 2.
Also competing for Elk Lake’s boys’ team was Matt Sterner (200 free-13th, 100 fly-17th), Malloy (200 free-18th, 500 free-11th), Cody Mowry (50 free-11th, 100 free-14th), Alex Manzek (50 free-15th, 100 free-18th), Chris Hollenbeck (50free-26th, 100 free-21st), Grosvenor (100 fly-11th), John Kreig (100 free-11th)_
Also competing for Elk Lake’s girls was Rachel Grosvenor (200 free-22nd, 100 fly-23rd), Rina Nikolaidis (50 free-7th), Emmie Gibson (50 free-8th), Hannah
Elk Lake’s Rachel Grosvenor swims the 100 butterfly on Friday. She took 23rd overall. STAFF PHOTO/KEVIN WOODRUFF
Cave (500 free-21st)
Times-Shamrock writer Michael Cignoli contributed to this report.
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