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11/18/2021 11:00 PMThe North Haven girls’ swimming and diving squad put forth a runner-up performance when the team competed at the Class M State Championship last week. Led by depth in multiple events, North Haven scored 449 points to finish in second place among 21 teams in the Class M meet, which took place at Cornerstone Aquatic Center in West Hartford on Nov. 16.
Hand finished in first place by scoring 522 points at the Class M State Championship. Two years ago, the Tigers placed second behind North Haven the last time the state meet had been held.
North Haven has now finished in either first or second place in its last four outings at the Class M State Championship. This time around, North Haven’s total of 449 points was good enough to edge out Guilford (442) and Lyman Hall (433) for the second-place spot.
Junior Mikayla Rapuano delivered the top finish for North Haven at states by claiming second place in the 100-yard butterfly. Rapuano swam a time of 58.63 seconds to take second in the butterfly, only finishing behind Hand senior Grace Sweeney, who won the event with a time of 58.30.
Rapuano also posted a fourth-place showing in the 100 backstroke for North Haven. Rapuano finished with a time of 1:01.93 on her way to placing fourth in the event.
Junior Alice Scalmani scored big points for North Haven with a pair of solid swims. Scalmani finished in fourth place for the 200 individual medley by swimming a time of 2:13.87. Then in the 100 breaststroke, Scalmani hit the finish line with a time of 1:10.03 to come in eighth place.
All three of North Haven’s relays turned in stellar performances at the State Championship. North Haven’s 400 freestyle relay featuring Rapuano, senior captain Taya Laborde, senior captain Giulia Faulkner, and Scalmani notched the top finish by finishing in third place with a time of 3:46.45.
North Haven’s 200 medley relay of Rapuano, Scalmani, Faulkner, and senior captain Grace Finch came in fourth place by recording a time of 1:54.18. The 200 freestyle relay of junior Makenzie Alogna, Finch, senior Abrielle Osborne, and Laborde took sixth place with a mark of 1:46.86.
Osborne finished sixth in the 100 butterfly with a time of 1:03.95 at the meet. Osborne also came in 15th place for the 200 IM by swimming a time of 2:28.53.
Faulkner earned top-10 finishes in two events at states. In the 200 freestyle, Faulkner took eighth place with a time of 2:07.33. Faulkner went on to swim a 1:04.97 in the 100 butterfly to place ninth in the event for North Haven.
Laborde was also top-10 finisher in a pair of freestyle events. Laborde claimed ninth place in the 100 freestyle with a time of 56.46 and finished 10th for the 50 freestyle at 26.19.
Finch finished 12th in the 50 freestyle (26.52) and also took 16th place in the 100 freestyle (59.10) at states. Alogna finished in 18th place for the 100 backstroke (1:09.22) for North Haven. Junior Victoria Pachnik finished 19th in the 500 freestyle (6:00.60) and came in 24th place in the 200 freestyle (2:16.12).
A few days before the swimming portion of states took place, North Haven had three athletes compete in the Class M Diving State Championship at Sheehan High School on Nov. 11. All three divers scored points that counted toward North Haven’s final tally at states.
Senior El-Lana Coleman finished in eighth place by posting a score of 307.00 points in the Class M diving competition. Sophomore Meghan DeRubeis took 10th place with a score of 287.95 for North Haven. Senior Chandler Ceste-Martinez scored 270.35 points to finish in 13th place and help North Haven take second place overall as a team at the Class M State Championship.