A complete of 11 space groups traveled to Woodhaven on Saturday for the 2023 Downriver Traditional.
Becoming a member of the host and defending meet champion Warriors have been fellow Downriver League groups Allen Park, Dearborn Edsel Ford, Lincoln Park-Southgate, Gibraltar Carlson, Trenton and Wyandotte Roosevelt.
Allen Park Cabrini, Flat Rock, Riverview and New Boston Huron-Taylor additionally joined the competitors.
They wanted all 12 occasions Saturday to determine the winner, however ultimately, Trenton held on to win its first Downriver Traditional title since 2020.
He was caught close to the highest of the leaderboard all day. Trenton completed with a 260 to complete forward of runner-up Riverview (254) and Woodhaven (222) for third place Roosevelt (210). These 4 faculties made up 10 of the 12 first-place faculties on the meet.
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Dominic Fraley swims for Riverview throughout Saturday’s Downriver Traditional in Woodhaven. Fraley and the Pirates completed second, simply six factors behind Trenton. (Alex Muller – for MediaNews Group)
Rounding out the remainder of the crew standings have been Allen Park (130) fifth, Flat Rock (91) sixth, Edsel Ford (83) seventh, Carlson (58) eighth, Lincoln Park-Southgate (38) ninth, Cabrini (22) tenth, Huron -Taylor (8) is eleventh.
Trenton led Riverview by 26 factors in 10 occasions, however the latter’s sturdy efficiency lower the Trojans’ result in 4, 234-230, going into the ultimate occasion of the day, the 400 free relay.
Woodhaven’s crew of Ian Wolney, James Talbott, Parker Shope and Justin Slumski completed first within the race with a time of three minutes and 27 seconds. Trenton’s Zach Schoen, Ethan Dorey, Sean Laney and Enrique Alcantar (3:29.64) narrowly edged out Riverview’s Nathan Crout, Wyatt Pirtle, Nathan Johnson and Gavin Ziliak (3:29.66) for second place. . A primary place end would win the meet for Riverview.
With their respective occasions within the last relay of the day, each Trenton and Riverview certified for the state finals in that occasion. These have been two of 16 cases the place the state’s cutoff time was met in the course of the day; The Pirates and Trojans mixed for 11 of these.
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Isaac Perez swims within the house pool in the course of the 2023 Downriver Traditional on Saturday. Perez and the Warriors completed the day in third place. (Alex Muller – for MediaNews Group)
The runner-up time within the 400 free relay was one in all two runner-up finishes for Trenton. The Trojans completed within the prime three on the day seven occasions, together with three gold medals, second solely to Woodhaven’s 4 first-place finishes.
Schoen, a freshman, was chargeable for two first-place finishes for Trento on Saturday, one within the 200 freestyle (1:52) and later within the 500 freestyle (5:00).
Riverview’s Crout (1:52) and Woodhaven’s Wolney (1:53) completed second and third, respectively, within the 200 freestyle. In the meantime, within the 500 freestyle, Riverview’s Pirtle (5:07) and Trenton’s Ryan Bradburn (5:19) rounded out the highest three there, edging out Schoen.
The opposite particular person gold medal for Trenton went to Enrique Alcantara (55.21) within the butterfly. Edsel Ford’s Blaise Kane (56.81) and Roosevelt’s Caden Sauve (58.66) additionally completed within the prime three in that race. A runner-up end by Kane was the Thunderbirds’ solely top-three end on the day.
Elsewhere for Alcantar, he completed second general within the 200 IM (2:04). Allen Park’s Zach Pauley (2:03) finally received the occasion, with Roosevelt’s Emerson Miciura (2:06) third.
Pauley was chargeable for each of Allen Park’s gold medals on Saturday. She additionally completed first within the backstroke (56.20) behind Roosevelt’s Inexperienced (59.49) and Riverview’s Ziliak (59.63).
Regardless of profitable only one occasion, Riverview had extra top-three finishes (9) than some other crew on Saturday, together with 5 third-place finishes.
The Pirates’ lone gold medal got here within the 200 medley relay by Ziliak, Ewan Todd, Dominic and Ben Shaw (1:44.45). Roosevelt’s foursome of Miciura, Riley Greene, Jose Hinojosa and Chris Gervasi (1:44.74) completed second, with Trenton’s Dorey, Laney, Aaron Glass and Mitchell Caldwell (1:49) third.
Along with her contributions within the 400 free relay, Shope gave Woodhaven a pair of gold medals with particular person efforts in each the 50 freestyle (22.12) and 100 freestyle (49.62).
Within the 50 freestyle, Shope’s Warrior teammate Wolney completed third (23.91), adopted by Allen Park’s Cole Paquette (23.03). Then Roosevelt’s Inexperienced (50.78) and Riverview’s Todd (51.55) rounded out the highest three within the 100 free.
Woodhaven’s different first-place end got here within the diving finals. John Martin (491.90) dominated the 10-diving discipline. Allen Park’s Matthew Mizzi (288.60) and Roosevelt’s Eli Shimko (282.65) rounded out the highest three.
For Roosevelt, Miciura helped the crew to 2 first-place finishes on Saturday. He first teamed with Greene, Hinojosa and Sauve to win the 200 free relay (1:32.89), edging out the Woodhaven quartet of Wolney, Slumski, Shope and Isaac Perez (1:32.96). Riverview’s Todd, Shaw, Fraley and Crout (1:34.99) completed third right here.
Two occasions later, Miciura discovered herself in one other shut battle, this time within the breaststroke (1:02.30), as she narrowly edged out Riverview’s Fraley (1:02.35) for first place. Fraley, Todd (1:04.64) and Timothy Cruz (1:08) completed 2-3-4 to provide the Pirates an opportunity to win Saturday’s last race.
5 of the 11 faculties — Flat Rock, Carlson, Lincoln Park-Southgate, Cabrini and Huron-Taylor — didn’t place within the prime three in Saturday’s Traditional.
Flat Rock completed fourth within the 400-yard freestyle relay with its crew of (Carter Aicher, Vaughn Tanner, Jake Stanislawski and Alexander Dropiewski (3:47)), the highest end of any occasion within the squad.
Lincoln Park-Southgate completed effectively for fifth place general, beating Freddy Kelly on the again (1:01).
Carlson completed sixth twice, within the diving because of Christian Fort (237.45) after which within the 200-yard freestyle relay with Max Fersdon, Dean Mantei, Andrew Fisher and Nate Reeves (1:44).
Cabrini’s greatest end on the day was ninth place twice. First up was the 200-meter freestyle relay behind the crew of Chris Russelburgh, Taylor Bonar, Grace Kendziuk and Marin Genaw (2:04). Then Russellburg, Genaw, Peter Farris and Colin Bonar teamed up within the 400-meter freestyle relay (4:43).
The Huron-Taylor pair took eleventh place. Within the 200-yard medley relay, it was Cory Swift, Nolan Taylor, Joshua Stewart and Thomas Williams becoming a member of forces. It was virtually the identical 4 within the 200-yard freestyle relay with Darrius Larson changing Swift.
