ST. JOHN, New Brunswick

The Long Reach Swim Club of the Bath Area YMCA, Casco Bay YMCA of Freeport and the Wiscasset Unsinkables competed recently in the Maine Swimming Long Course Championships, held at the Canada Games Aquatics Center in St. John, New Brunswick.

Long Reach won the overall title with 4,061 points, followed by Coastal Maine Aquatics (2,387), Portland Porpoise Swim Club (2,182), Down East Family YMCA (1,663) and the Hurricane Swim Club (1,403).

Casco Bay was 11th out of 21 teams with 593 points, while Wiscasset (89) was 18th.

The Long Reach girls won their division with 2,348 points, followed by Coastal Maine (1,166), Portland Porpoise (1,153), Down East (756) and Kvy Stingray (677), with Casco Bay (470) eighth and Wiscasset (89) 17th.

The Long Reach boys also won their division with 1,713 points, followed by Coastal Maine (1,221), Portland (1,029), Down East (907) and Hurricane (737), with Casco Bay 14th (123).

For Long Reach, Erik Linseisen placed fourth overall in 10-and-under boys.

In 11-12 boys, Dominic Marco was eighth and Jacob Stafford third.

In 13-14 girls, Ann Tolan was eighth overall.

For the LRSC senior girls, Hope Logan was eighth, Sonia Lin sixth, Lynsie Russell fifth and Jessica Russell first.

For Senior boys, Nate Samson finished seventh.

Picking up first-place finishes for the girls relays included the 10-and-under freestyle foursome of Emily Galen, Lizzy Ober, Grace Bingham and Eleanor Stafford (2:52.03), the 14U 200 free (Sophia Kruse, Brittany Kaler, Caitlin Tycz, Ann Tolan, team record 2:02.36; old record 2:04.18, set by Russell, Tessa Lindsley, Hope Logan, Heidi Ziegra in 2009), the Senior 200 free (Celia Ouellette, Emily Buczkowski, Jessica Russell, Sonia Lin, 1:57.64), the 12U medley (Hailey Harper, Olivia Harper, Alexandra Morse, Ella Tycz (6:32.11), the 14U medley (Kruse, Hannah Escoe, Tolan, Sophia Stafford, 5:21.76), 14U 200 medley (Kruse, Escoe, Caitlin Tycz, Tolan, teamrecord 2:23.28, old record 2:24.57 set by Tessa Lindsley, Audrey Thames, Heidi Ziegra, Jessica Russell in 2009) and the Senior 200 medley (Buczkowski, Lin, Russell, Ouellette, 2:10.81).

Also, the 10U 200 medley (Stafford, Bingham, Galen, Ober, 3:18.71), 14U 800 free (Kruse, Stafford, Kaler, Escoe), 10:50.81), 10U 400 free (Galen, Bingham, Ober, Stafford, 6:22.45), 14U 400 free (Kruse, Tolan, Tycz, Stafford, 4:30.92) and Senior 400 free (Russell, Buczkowski, Lin Ouellette, 4:17.91).

Individually, first places went to Lin in 15U 100 breaststroke (1:20.35), Russell in the Senior 200 free (2:11.89), 200 IM (team record 2:29.55, breaking Abbie King’s mark of 2:35.47 set in 2004), 400 free (4:44.37), 200 back (2:32.41) and 100 free (team record 1:01.03, breaking her own mark of 1:01.27), Tolan in 13-14 50 free (28.68) and 100 free (1:02.91), and Ouellette in Senior 50 free (28.04).

Also, Lynsie Russell set a team record in the 1,500 free with a 19:09.87 (breaking Petra Janney’s time of 19:24.30) and a new mark in the 400 IM (5:33.82; old mark of 5:36.12 set by Rachel Clegg in 2009).

For the LRSC boys, first places in relays came from the 12U 200 free (Erik Linseisen, Dominic Marco, Jacob Stafford, Robby Hyde, 2:20.42), 14U 200 free (Aaron Hyde, Brian Hess, Andrew Samson, Patrick McKenna, 2:05.75), 12U 400 medley (Robby Hyde, Linseisen, Stafford, Marco, 6:07.04), 14U 400 medley (Samson, Hess, McKenna, Aaron Hyde, 5:19.96), 14U 200 medley (Samson, Hess, McKenna, Aaron Hyde, 2:21.70), 14U 800 free (Samson, McKenna, Hess, Aaron Hyde, 10:36.33) and 14U free (Samson, McKenna, Hess, Aaron Hyde, 4:45,62).

Boys capturing first places included Stafford in the 11-12 backstroke (36.73), 100 fly (team record 1:19.85; old mark 1:36.60 set by Tucker Banger) and 50 fly (team record 32.96; old mark of 33.05 set by Samson in 2012).

“LRSC put on another impressive championship meet,” said Long Reach coach Jay Morissette. “Our team balance and depth was unmatched by any team. We had a number of first-time 50- meter pool swimmers and they did not seem to be bothered by the extra distances.

“A majority of our 13-andolder swimmers camped out for the meet, having fun and good times and getting a little wet, but that just adds to our good times.

“After the meet the swimmers were able to take advantage of the pool’s water park and that was a trip highlight for all ages! I am very proud of this team and what it continues to accomplish. Our parents group did a great job working the meet, as did assistant coach Guerin Morissette in her first meet effort as an assistant.”