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Pingry Swimmers Get Best of Ridge at Meet

Pingry boys team remains undefeated at 7-0.

 
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Kristen Julian swimming the butterfly for Ridge.
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The Ridge High School boys and girls swim teams traveled to neighboring Pingry School for a meet Thursday afternoon. The Ridge team faced tough competition against highly-ranked Pingry, and trailed Pingry's total score.

GIRLS

Ridge 59, Pingry 111

Records: Ridge 1-7; Pingry 2-5
200 Medley Relay 2. Ridge (Sarah Valente, Kate Bradley, Brianna Thompson, Kristina Cheung) 2:187.46
200 Freestyle
1 Christina Ou (P) 2:19.95
200 IM
3. Kate Bradley (R) 2:43.10
50 Freestyle
1. Morgan Burke (P) 28.27
100 Butterfly
2. Brianna Thompson (R) 1:17.25
100 Freestyle
3. Sarah Valente (R) 1:05.61
400 Freestyle
2. Kelsey McKeon (R) 5:26.97
200 Freestyle Relay
1. Pingry (Christina Ou, Margaret Ding, Cailee Cassidy, Sara Gagnon) 2:04.03
100 Backstroke
2. Sarah Valente (R) 1:13.44
100 Breaststroke
1. Margaret Ding (P) 1:21.04
400 Freestyle Relay 2. Ridge (Brianna Thompson, Haley Margulis, Sarah Valente, Stephanie Ruderman) 4:43.95

BOYS

Ridge 51.5, Pingry 118.5

Records: Ridge 2-5; Pingry 7-0
200 Medley Relay 1. Ridge (Bradley Wachenfeld, Matt Glockenmeier, Asron Schlemovitz, Jackson Crewe) 1:58.10
200 Freestyle
1. Sebastian Lutz (P) 2:06.55
200 IM
2. Aaron Schlemovitz (R) 2:26.67
50 Freestyle
1. Will Costa (P) 25.21
100 Butterfly
2. Jackson Crewe (R) 1:05.80
100 Freestyle
1. Alex Mango (P) 54.49
400 Freestyle
1. Aaron Schlemovitz (R) 4:42.75
400 Freestyle RELAY
1. Pingry (Alex Mango, Sebastian Lutz, Alex Ingrassia, Paul Ludwig) 1:46.92
100 Backstroke
1. Alex Wolfson (P) 1:10.81
100 Breaststroke
4. Alex Glockenmeier (R) 1:20.13
400 Freestyle Relay 2.  Ridge (Jackson Crewe, Jonathon Jen, Terrill Jones, Aaron Schlemovitz) 4:05.12

IN SHORT

The Ridge squads were limited to only two wins in the entire event.  Undefeated Pingry boys, ranked No. 7 by the Star Ledger, had beaten No. 6 Bridgewater earlier in the week.

DEVIL BOY SWIMMER OF THE MEET

Matt Glockenmeier — Solid performances in the 50 and 100 and the relays.

DEVIL GIRL SWIMMER OF THE MEET

Sarah Valente — 2nd in the 100 backstroke and strong performance in 100 freestyle.

BIG BLUE BOY SWIMMER OF THE MEET

James Ross — James won the 100 butterfly and breaststroke

BIG BLUE GIRL SWIMMER OF THE MEET

Marissa Werner — Improved her personal time in the 400 freestyle by 13 seconds and swam the 100 breaststoke

THEY SAID IT

"We love swimming against Pingry because we know a lot of the swimmers, but they are tough competition so we just have fun." — Ridge head coach Melanie Dupuis

"The boys did a very nice job.  We had really strong swims from the outside lanes." — Pingry boys coach Steve Droste

"Our girls swam really well today.  This was our second win so they were very excited at the end.  We used this meet to help us qualify for states." — Pingry girls head coach Judy Lee

UP NEXT:

- Ridge will swim next when they host Somerville January 25th, 2:30 p.m.

- Pingry will travel to Lawrenceville School January 18th, 4:15 p.m.



Related Topics: Pingry Swim Team and Ridge Swim Team

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