Winona pulls out their hardest fought dual meet of the year. The teams’ scores were within a few points throughout the meet. The Winhawks started out in the lead, had it taken away in the 200 IM and regained it right away with a strong 1-2-4 finish in the 50 Freestyle. From that point on the Winhawks had the lead but couldn’t pull away. Each event that extended their lead was followed by a Rochester showing that reigned them back in. Then the second to the last event was the final straw. Sr. Santino LaPorta, 8th Gr. Cal Dretske and Sr. Jonathan Birdsall pulled off a 1-2-3 finish respectfully putting away the meet for good.
The The Winona Winhawks opened the meet with a win in the 200 Medley Relay. The team of Sr. Captain Ryan Whalen, Sr. Santino LaPorta, 8th Gr. Roger Brosnahan and Jr. Louie LaPorta swam a solid time a few hundreths off their best of the year for the win and 8 points. The “B” relay team of So. Avery Prondzinski, 8th Gr Cal Dretske, Jr. Matt Bagshaw and Sr. Jonathan Birdsall, dropping 2 seconds since their winning swim against Owatonna, saw a great neck and neck race. Swimming side-by-side the entire race, they just touched out JM for 2nd place and maximum points.
Score Winona 12 Rochester JM 2
The 200 Freestyle saw JM recover some of their 10 point deficit with a 1-2 finish. Sr. Co-Captain Josh Danzinger brought home 3rd. Jr. Gio Borsari scored finishing 5th in his best time of the season.
Score Winona 16 Rochester JM 14
The 200 IM gave JM their only lead of the night. Their 1-3-5 finnish was broken up by a 2nd place finish by 8th Gr. Cal Dretske and a 4th by Jr. Matt Bagshaw who bettered his time for the 5th consecutive meet!
Score Winona 22 Rochester JM 24
The 50 Freestyle was a statement by the Winhawks that the pool belonged to them .Sr. Co-Captain Ryan Whalen won in 22.78 with 8th Gr Roger Brosnahan right behind him in 2nd and a season’s best 24.11. Sr. Jonathan Birdsall added points also swimming his season low of 25.19.
Score Winona 34 Rochester JM 28
The 1 Meter Diving proved to be a battle as predicted. JM was able to reign in the Winhawk point total scoring 1-2. The Winhawk divers, Jr. Justin Bublitz, Jr. Stan Petkov and So. Dan Karnick finished 3-4-5.
Score Winona 40 Rochester JM 38
The 100 Butterfly propped the Winhawks right back up with 8th Gr, Roger Brosnahan winning 1st with room to spare. Swimming his second sesaon best time of the night, Jr. Matt Bagshaw brought home 2nd place.
Score Winona 50 Rochester JM 44
The 100 Freestyle was a fun race to watch where Rochester’s Tanner Nimke gave Winhawk Sr. Co-Captain Ryan Whalen as close a race as he has had all year. In the end Ryan pulled away for the win in 50.83. Jr. Louie LaPorta brought home points with his best 100 of the season and So. Joey Kleinow touched out JM for a much needed point in 5th. In the JV Event, the newest Winhawks So. Alex Kline, Jr. Eric Mueller and Fr. Mic Borsari ALL swam seasons best times.
Score Winona 59 Rochester JM 51
The 500 Freestyle turned out to me the side-by-side match up that was predicted. Winhawk Sr. Co-Captain Josh Danzinger battled JM’s Nick Cox in the longest event of the evening. While Cox led at the 50, Josh took it away by the 100. They spent the next 250 with Josh just head a shoulders ahead turning together at both ends. About the 40 mark the KM swimmer kicked it down to slide by Josh. At the finish Josh touched 2nd in 5:29.83 fractions off his season best. Scoring varsity points and dropping nearly 30 seconds to a season’s best was 8th Gr Alex Vaslow.
Score Winona 64 Rochester JM 62
The 200 Free Relay of Louie LaPorta, Jonathon Birdsall., Ryan Whalen, Roger Brosnahan swam their best of the Season to touch out JM for 1st. The “B” relay of Joey Kleinow Gio Borsari, Cal Dretske and Josh Danzinger swam a solid 3rd place for some much needed additional points.
Score Winona 74 Rochester JM 66
The 100 Backstroke, which has been an achilles heel in prior meets, saw Jr. Avery Prondzinski step up and drop 4 seconds to a new season low and 2nd place. Equally inspired, Winhawk Jr. Gio Borsari swam his season best as well to score 4th place points to help keep the Winhawks in the lead.
Score Winona 80 Rochester JM 76
The 100 Breaststroke proved to be the trumpet call for the Winhawks. Sr. Santino LaPorta, 8th Gr Cal Dretske and Sr. Jonathan Birdsall followed each other up and down the pool. With the crowd going crazy the three swimmers brought the Winhawks a 1-2-3 sweep of the event and put the meet away for Winona.
Score Winona 93 Rochester JM 79
The 400 Free Relay was time for some fun. With, the win in the bag, both relays could be disqualified and the Winhawks could still win. That being said, the “A” relay of Avery P., Joey K., Louie L., Josh D weren’t through yet. In spite of Avery swimming his season’s best split and Joey swimming a solid leg, JM lead off with their two best sprinters and opened up a 14 second lead. With JM half way up the pool as he left the blocks, Winhawk Jr. Louis LaPorta put in his fastest split of the season making up half the deficit. Now leaving the block with JM only body lengths ahead, Sr. Co-Captain Josh Danzinger swam like it was his last dual of his career making up the defict, overtaking JM at the 80 yard mark and puling out the win and setting up the Winhawks for their run at the Big 9 Conference meet.
Final Score Winona 101 Rochester JM 85
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