Canton, Salem swim teams shine in spirited rivalry dual meet
Swimmers launch themselves from starting blocks during Thursday night’s Salem-at-Canton girls swim & dive meet.
In one of the Plymouth-Canton Educational Park’s longest and most-riveting sports rivalries, Canton’s girls swim & dive team started strong to outlast 50-years-plus campus neighbor Salem, 100-83, Thursday night.
With the victory, the Cobras wrapped up their third consecutive “Park” championship as they out-stroked Plymouth one week earlier.
Canton is also ranked 10th in Division 1 in the latest MISCA state rankings.
Canton added to its already-impressive list of state-qualifiers as its meet-opening medley relay quartet of Jasmine Pham, Tayla Smith, Hannah Gurgel and Amelia Pan registered a stellar early-season time of 1 minute, 53.21 seconds to touch six second ahead of Salem’s Madison Heiden, Reagan Kleinglass, Hannah Sullivan and Johanna Beyer.
Pan, a freshman, also qualified for the Division 1 state meet in the 200 individual medley (2:13.70) and Gurgel did the same in the 100 freestyle (53.53).
(To check out video highlights from Thursday’s meet, click here.)
Cobra standouts
Canton Head Coach Ed Weber was also pleased with the efforts of sophomore Mina Kennedy (2:03.53) and Ximena Murillo (2:09.88) in the 200 free; Tatijana Shockling (2:28.34) and Lucy Gavin (2:58.38) in the 200 IM; diver Addy Miller (163.40 points); Abigail McAskin (26.85) and Emily Craig (28.69) in the 50 free; Navya Rathor (1:36.43 in the 100 free); and Smith (1:11.41) and Amya Bosanko (1:30.07) in the 100 breaststroke.
Salem’s Bryn Petrosky (175.10 points) and Liliana Cipolla (166.50 points) swept the top two spots in the diving competition.
The Rocks also earned 13 points thanks to a 1-2-3 finish in the 100 breaststroke behind Kleinglass (1:12.89), Cindy Wang (1:24.21) and Jessica Jones (1:37.53).
Salem won the meet-concluding 400 freestyle relay which was powered by Ava Boccarossa, Julia Montgomery, Emilia Muncy and Emrie Gay.
Ed Wright can be reached at 734-664-4657 or edwright@socialhousenews.com.
