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Goldback Boys Win First Swim Meet of the Season


Story and photos provided by the Mid Hudson Times.

It was the first meet of the 2022-23 season and the Newburgh Free Academy boys’ swimming and diving team is off to a good start, winning a three-way meet against the Minisink Valley Warriors and Red Hook Raiders and qualifying eight swimmers for February’s Section 9 championship meet.

The Goldbacks won the meet with 529 total points. The Warriors were second and Raiders were third.

Jack Mummery (200-yard freestyle, 500-yard freestyle), Vicente Velasquez (200-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle), Conor Mummery (200-yard freestyle, 500-yard freestyle), Peyton Tuttle (200-yard individual medley, 100-yard backstroke), Jackson Cooper (200-yard individual medley, 100-yard breaststroke), Angelo Reade (50-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle), Jackson Gerbes (50-yard freestyle, 100-yard butterfly) and Aiden Domanico (100-yard butterfly, 100-yard backstroke) all qualified for sectionals in two events.

Angelo Reade had the best finish for the Goldbacks when he won the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 23.99. Gerbes finished third.

Jack Mummery won the 500-yard freestyle, with Conor Mummery finishing 24 seconds behind him.

Velasquez, Gerbes, Reade and Jack Mummery led the 200-yard freestyle relay team to a victory in 1:39 with their second team of Jackson Cooper, Sebastian Burgarelli, Conor Mummery and Jax Pagano.

The Goldbacks opened the meet with second- and third-place finishes in the 200-yard medley relay.

Mummery and Velasquez finished second and third respectively in the 200-yard freestyle, while Conor Mummery took fifth. Tuttle was second in the 200-yard individual medley, while Cooper and Pagano were third and fourth respectively.

Cole Mullarkey was second in diving with a six-dive score of 168.05. Akhiir McNeil and Ayden Ortega were fourth and fifth.

Gerbes and Domanico were second and third in the 100-yard butterfly with Sebastian Burgarelli coming in fourth. Velasquez and Reade were second and third in the 100-yard freestyle with Miles Davis coming in fifth.

Tuttle and Domanico were second and third in the 100-yard backstroke with Markus Constancio coming in fourth.

Cooper was second in the 100-yard breaststroke and Pagano and Burgarelli took third and fourth respectively.

Velasquez, Tuttle, Reade and Jack Mummery led the 400-yard freestyle relay to a second-place finish, while the Goldbacks’ second team took fourth.

Team results: 1. Newburgh - 529; 2. Minisink Valley - 302; 3. Red Hook - 285.
200-yard medley relay: 1. Red Hook (Owen Daniels, Samuel Button, Kiezo Chen-Suzuki, Edmund Wilson) - 1:46.96; 2. Newburgh (Peyton Tuttle, Jackson Cooper, Aiden Domanico, Jackson Gerbes) - 1:51.29; 3. Newburgh (Markus Constancio, Jax Pagano, Sebastian Burgarelli, Miles Davis) - 1:59.25.

200-yard freestyle: 1. Owen Daniels (RH) - 1:53.51; 2. Jack Mummery (NFA) - 1:55.48; 3. Vicente Velasquez (NFA) - 2:00.75; 5. Conor Mummery (NFA) - 2:05.57; 7. Liam Baxter (NFA) - 2:25.67.
200-yard individual medley: 1. Edmund Wilson (RH) - 2:06.54; 2. Peyton Tuttle (NFA) - 2:15.12; 3. Jackson Cooper (NFA) - 2:22.93; 4. Jax Pagano (NFA) - 2:30.39.
50-yard freestyle: 1. Angelo Reade (NFA) - 23.99; 3. Jackson Gerbes (NFA) - 24.57; 8. Nikolas Buchholz (NFA) - 29.64; 10. Kaleb McNeil (NFA) - 31.84.
Diving: 1. Harold Lockowitcz (MV) - 188.65; 2. Cole Mullarkey (NFA) - 168.05; 4. Akhiir McNeil (NFA) - 107.61; 5. Ayden Ortega (NFA) - 101.45.
100-yard butterfly: 1. Jackson Hujus (MV) - 58.05; 2. Jackson Gerbes (NFA) - 59.47; 3. Aiden Domanico (NFA) - 1:00.39; 4. Sebastian Burgarelli (NFA) - 1:07.27; 6. Jesse Pagano (NFA) - 1:26.36.

100-yard freestyle: 1. Edmund Wilson (RH) - 50.93; 2. Vicente Velasquez (NFA) - 52.84; 3. Angelo Reade (NFA) - 56.09; 5. Miles Davis (NFA) - 59.35; 6. Akhiir McNeil (NFA) - 59.41.
500-yard freestyle: 1. Jack Mummery (NFA) - 5:20.95; 2. Conor Mummery (NFA) - 5:44.66; 4. Liam Baxter (NFA) - 6:26.54; 5. Ryder Tuttle (NFA) - 6:55.76.
200-yard freestyle relay: 1. Newburgh (Vicente Velasquez, Jackson Gerbes, Angelo Reade, Jack Mummery) - 1:39.00; 2. Newburgh (Jackson Cooper, Sebastian Burgarelli, Conor Mummery, Jax Pagano) - 1:39.00.
100-yard backstroke: 1. Owen Daniels (RH) - 55.56; 2. Peyton Tuttle (NFA) - 59.38; 3. Aiden Domanico (NFA) - 1:06.57; 4. Markus Constancio (NFA) - 1:13.01; 7. Drake Burns (NFA) - 1:24.21.
100-yard breaststroke: 1. Samuel Button (RH) - 1:06.97; 2. Jackson Cooper (NFA) - 1:12.94; 3. Jax Pagano (NFA) - 1:16.31; 4. Sebastian Burgarelli (NFA) - 1:18.75; 7. Jesse Pagano (NFA) - 1:33.85.

400-yard freestyle relay: 1. Red Hook (Martin Heidebrecht, Samuel Button, Owen Daniels, Edmund Wilson) - 3:34.97; 2. Newburgh (Vicente Velasquez, Peyton Tuttle, Angelo Reade, Jack Mummery) - 3:37.51; 4. Newburgh (Conor Mummery, Liam Baxter, Miles Davis, Aiden Domanico) - 4:06.71.


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Newburgh’s Peyton Tuttle swims the butterfly leg of the 200-yard individual medley during a boys’ swimming meet on Dec. 5 at Newburgh Free Academy’s Main Campus.
Newburgh’s Akhiir McNeil dives during a boys’ swimming meet on Dec. 5 at Newburgh Free Academy’s Main Campus.




Date: 2022-12-19 10:07:19 AM





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