East Providence concludes swimming season at championship meets

Forsythe, Benadouda, Luu win individual division events

Posted 3/1/18

EAST PROVIDENCE — The East Providence High School swimming teams concluded their 2017-18 season in recent weeks, the Townies vying in their respective Division III and state championship …

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East Providence concludes swimming season at championship meets

Forsythe, Benadouda, Luu win individual division events

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EAST PROVIDENCE — The East Providence High School swimming teams concluded their 2017-18 season in recent weeks, the Townies vying in their respective Division III and state championship meets.
At Brown University for the Rhode Island Interscholastic League state meet, the EPHS boys scored 45 points to place 15th out of 26 teams. Hendricken won the boys’ title with 384 points. Barrington was second with 334 and Wheeler third with 224. The EPHS girls did not rank in the state event, won by Barrington with 300 points. LaSalle was second with 284 and North Kingstown third with 238.
Previous to states, the EPHS boys placed as the runners-up in the D-III meet held at Roger Williams University. The Townies tallied 322 points to finish behind victorious Lincoln High with 429. Mount St. Charles was third with 299. The EPHS girls scored 62 points at the division meet to place eighth. Smithfield won the title with 427 followed by Toll Gate with 351 and Mt. Hope with 291.
State meet results
East Providence opened the boys’ state meet with a 12th-place swim in the 200-yard medley relay. The teams of David Capobianco, Dan Forsythe, Owen Charron and Yanis Benadouda clocked a time of 1 minute, 53.41 seconds. Hendricken’s group set a new state record in winning the event in 1:35.35. The previous mark of 1:36.36 was set only last year by Barrington.
Forsythe was next to put a point on the board for the Townies, swimming 16th in the 100 freestyle in 51.85. Hendricken’s Ethan O’Connor won the event in 47.19. Forsythe added a day’s-best individual effort for EPHS with his ninth-place finish in the 50 free with a time of 22.99. O’Connor also won the event in 21.78.
Benadouda followed with an 11th-place swim in the 500 free with a time of 5:24. Jacob Hack of East Greenwich won the event in 4:43.24. Benadouda also scored with a time of 1:00.24 to place 16th in the 100 backstroke, which was won by Hendricken’s Lucas Stencel in 51.64.
The Townies closed out the meet with a ninth-place swim in the 400 free relay as Capobianco, Forsythe, Charron and Benadouda clocked a time of 3:37.18. Barrington won the event in 3:10.54, breaking the state record of 3:14.57 also set by the same Eagles last season.
D-III boys’ meet
The Townies vied with Lincoln High throughout the boys’ Division III meet, including the opening event where the Lions edged the Townies with a time of 1:46.02 to win the 200 medley relay. Benadouda, Capobianco, Forsythe and Richard Costa teamed to finish second in 1:54.24.
Capobianco was third in the first solo event, clocking a 2:07.94 in the 200 free won by Zach Dubosky of Mount St. Charles in 1:54.59. The talented Townie freshman was next second in the 200 individual medley with a time of 2:30.03 behind Lincoln’s McGovern Brown’s winning standard of 2:13.63.
Forsythe led four EPHS boys to place in the 50 free, finishing second in 23.77. Prout’s Wesley Rea won in 22.65. Charron was fifth in 25.53, Costa sixth in 26.36 and Matt DaSilva ninth in 27.49.
Forsythe followed up with a win in the 100 free, besting the field with a time of 52.32. Charron was third in 57.88, Costa sixth in 1:00.01 and DaSilva ninth in 1:05.17.
Benadouda was the next Townie to top the podium after winning the 500 in a time of 5:37.68. Benadouda later swam second with a 1:00.74 to Lincoln’s McGovern, 56.99, in the 100 backstroke. East Providence’s Josh Hanley was fifth in the event with a 1:10.58.
The EPHS team of Jake Pezza, DaSilva, Forsythe and Costa placed fourth in the 200 free relay with a 1:46.7. The Mount quartet won the race in 1:42.62.
Colin Capelo and Hanley swam sixth and seventh, respectively in the 100 breaststroke with times of 1:20.81 and 1:23.36. Lincoln’s Ben Goho won the event in 1:07.28.
The Lions then closed out the meet and wrapped up the title with their win in the 400 free relay with a 3:337.57. Charron, Capobianco, Forsythe and Benadouda clocked the runner-up time of 3:34.01.
D-III girls’ notes
Raissa Luu got the EPHS girls’ team on the scoreboard at divisions with a fourth-place swim of 2:31.3 in the 200 IM. Autumn Blakely of champion Smithfield won the event in 2:20.54. The freshman later recorded the Townies’ lone victory of the day, winning the 100 backstroke in 1:07.75.
Mary McBride was next to score for the locals, finishing sixth in the 50 free with a t28.86. Toll Gate’s Abigail Ignagni placed first in 25.08. Ignagni also won the 100 free in 56.06 with McBride fifth in 1:04.26.

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