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Boys Swimming: Pingry wins Skyland Conference Championships

Lauren Knego
@laurenknego
Pingry's Leighton Mayers swims the lead leg of the 200 medley relay at the NJSIAA swimming Meet of Champions, Sunday, Feb. 29 at Gloucester County Institute of Technology in Sewell.

The Pingry School's boys swim team clinched the Skyland Conference Championships on Saturday after winning six of the 11 events for 309 points.

Bridgewater-Raritan was second with 234 points and host Montgomery placed third with 141 points.

The Big Blue won all three relay events, taking the 200 medley relay in 1:37.23, the 200 freestyle relay in 1:27.37 and the 400 freestyle relay in 3:12.53.

GIRLS SWIMMING: BRIDGEWATER-RARITAN WINS SKYLAND CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS

Victor Vollbrechthausen won the 200 freestyle for Pingry in 1:45.67, while Sean Tan took the 200 individual medley in 1:54.11. In the 50 free, Will Zhang (21.45) and Leighton Mayers (21.69) finished in first and second, and Mayers also won the 100 butterfly in 51.37.

Bridgewater-Raritan's Daniel Petrillo won the 500 freestyle in 4:49.13 and teammate Christopher Ruhnke won the 100 breaststroke in 57.93.

Hillsborough's Matthew Sanders won the 100 freestyle in 47.75.

TEAM SCORES: 1. Pingry 309; 2. Bridgewater-Raritan 234; 3. Montgomery 141; 4. Ridge 129; 5. Hillsborough 114; 6. Bernards 107; 7. Phillipsburg 74; 8. Hunterdon Central 69; 9. Watchung Hills 61; 10. Immaculata 27; 11. Franklin 16; 12. North Hunterdon 12; 13. Warren Hills 4; 14. South Hunterdon 3; 15. Gill St. Bernard's 2.

200 MEDLEY RELAY: 1. Pingry (Leighton Mayers, Dillon Shu, Sean Tan, Will Zhang) 1:37.23; 2. Bridgewater-Raritan 1:38.51; 3. Ridge 1:40.08; 4. Hunterdon Central 1:41.03; 5. Hillsborough 1:42.41; 5. Bernards 1:42.41.

200 FREESTYLE: 1. Victor Vollbrechthausen (Pingry) 1:45.67; 2. Thomas DeLauro (Bridgewater-Raritan) 1:46.44; 3. Matt Stanton (Pingry) 1:48.10; 4. Matthew Voight (Bernards) 1:49.13; 5. John Dardis (Watchung Hills) 1:49.43; 6. Brendan Lu (Ridge) 1:49.80.

200 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY: 1. Sean Tan (Pingry) 1:54.11; 2. Owen Thomas (Phillipsburg) 1:56.89; 3. Sean Foster (Immaculata) 1:57.11; 4. John Stauffer (Montgomery) 1:57.82; 5. Dillon Shu (Pingry) 1:58.42; 6. Carter Weiland (Bridgewater-Raritan) 1:58.55.

50 FREESTYLE: 1. Will Zhang (Pingry) 21.45; 2. Leighton Mayers (Pingry) 21.69; 3. Christopher Ruhnke (Bridgewater-Raritan) 22.27; 4. Kevin Ma (Pingry) 22.67; 5. Andrew Profaca (Ridge) 22.85; 6. Justin Lee (Bridgewater-Raritan) 23.10.

100 BUTTERFLY: 1. Leighton Mayers (Pingry) 51.37; 2. Raveesh Koul (Ridge) 53.05; 3. Dillon Shu (Pingry) 53.20; 4. Charles Hewitt (Bridgewater-Raritan) 53.77; 5. Lee Poirier (Montgomery) 55.57; 6. Karl Conrad (Hillsborough) 56.96.

100 FREESTYLE: 1. Matthew Sanders (Hillsborough) 47.75; 2. Victor Vollbrechthausen (Pingry) 48.34; 3. Carter Weiland (Bridgewater-Raritan) 49.66; 4. Luke Hess (Bridgewater-Raritan) 50.19; 5. Kevin Ma (Pingry) 50.42; 6. Alex Kiel (Bernards) 50.78.

500 FREESTYLE: 1. Daniel Petrillo (Bridgewater-Raritan) 4:49.13; 2. Dylan Wachenfeld (Ridge) 4:50.46; 3. Billy Fallon (Pingry) 4:51.25; 4. Michael Poirier (Montgomery) 4:51.27; 5. Matt Stanton (Pingry) 4:51.50; 6. Griffin Halpin (Bridgewater-Raritan) 4:55.68.

200 FREESTYLE RELAY: 1. Pingry (Leighton Mayers, Victor Vollbrechthausen, Kevin Ma, Will Zhang) 1:27.37; 2. Hillsborough 1:29.49; 3. Bridgewater-Raritan 1:30.26; 4. Hunterdon Central 1:30.83; 5. Montgomery 1:33.15; 6. Bernards 1:33.41.

100 BACKSTROKE: 1. Owen Thomas (Phillipsburg) 51.48; 2. Sean Tan (Pingry) 52.63; 3. Joshua Franco (Hillsborough) 53.97; 4. John Stauffer (Montgomery) 54.83; 5. John Dardis (Watchung Hills) 55.93; 6. Jonathan Chen (Pingry) 56.24.

100 BREASTSTROKE: 1. Christopher Ruhnke (Bridgewater-Raritan) 57.93; 2. Sean Foster (Immaculata) 58.31; 3. Ryan Van Dijk (Bernards) 59.70; 4. Brendan Lu (Ridge) 1:01.56; 5. Andrew Profaca (Ridge) 1:01.76; 6. Colin Liu (Montgomery) 1:02.27; 6. Daniel Petrillo (Bridgewater-Raritan) 1:02.27.

400 FREESTYLE RELAY: 1. Pingry (Victor Vollbrechthausen, Sean Tan, Matt Stanton, Will Zhang) 3:12.53; 2. Hillsborough 3:15.50; 3. Bridgewater-Raritan 3:17.57; 4. Hunterdon Central 3:20.15; 5. Montgomery 3:22.57; 6. Ridge 3:24.64.