East Providence, Bay View vie in state swimming championships

Spremullo wins twice for Bengals

Photos by Julie Furtado
Posted 2/25/19

PROVIDENCE — The East Providence High School boys’ team placed 14th and the girls 23rd in the 2019 Rhode Island Interscholastic League State Championship Swim Meet held Saturday, Feb. 23, at …

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East Providence, Bay View vie in state swimming championships

Spremullo wins twice for Bengals

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PROVIDENCE — The East Providence High School boys’ team placed 14th and the girls 23rd in the 2019 Rhode Island Interscholastic League State Championship Swim Meet held Saturday, Feb. 23, at Brown University’s Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center.

The Townies finished 42 points on the boys’ side, 12 on the girls’. The St. Mary Academy-Bay View squad finished sixth in the girls’ standings with 141 points.

Overall, it was a day of fifths for the winners as both Bishop Hendricken and Barrington upped their respective boys’ and girls’ title runs to five in a row. In scoring 380 points, Hendricken added to its record total of 32 boys’ championships. The Hawks have actually won 28 of the last 29 titles, interrupted only by Smithfield’s victory in 2014. Likewise, the Eagles added to their record total of girls’ titles to 10.

Barrington was also the runner-up to Hendricken in the boys’ ranks, scoring 279 points Saturday. The South County co-op team was third with 203. North Kingstown was second to Eagles on the girls’ ledger with 261 points. LaSalle was third with 240.5.

Yannis Benadouda had the top individual result for the Townies in the boys’ event, finishing seventh in the 50 yard freestyle with a time of 22.63 seconds. Hendricken’s Ethan O’Connor won the event in 21.41. Benadouda was also seventh in the 100 backstroke in 55.02, an event also won by O’Connor in 50.66.

East Providence’s best result in the three relays came from its 400 free team of Benadouda, David Capobianco, Owen Charron and Eric Long, which finished 12th in 3:47.32. Hendricken won the event in 3:15.17.

Bay View’s best relay finish was runner-up to Prout (1:51.21) as the team of Gianna Spremullo, Juliana Goncalves, Oleysa Tamburro and Melina Cabral clocked a 1:52.72.

Of special note, Spremullo won a pair of individual state titles with her time of 2:04.59 in the 200 individual medley and 56.07 in the 100 backstroke.

Raissa Liu accounted for all 12 of the points for the EPHS girls. The sophomore swam 10th in the 100 butterfly with a 1:02.34 and was 12th in the 100 back, won by Bay View’s Spremullo, with a 1:03.56. Alex Miko-Rydzaj of Prout won the 100 fly in 57.52.

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