By Mike Zummo
Charles Hufcut won two events, leading the Pine Bush boys’ swimming and diving team to a 114-62 victory over the Valley Central Vikings on Jan. 11.
Hufcut won the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:57.50 and the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 53.17.
Bryce Sloley (50-yard freestyle), Kaeden Fisher (Diving), Joshua Gallagher (100-yard backstroke), Dominic Licardi (100-yard breaststroke) each picked up a victory for the Bushmen, who also posted wins in the 200-yard freestyle relay and 400-yard freestyle relay.
Valley Central’s Kellen Dickman picked up victories in the 200-yard individual medley and the 100-yard butterfly.
Timothy Grabinski won the 500-yard freestyle for the Vikings, who opened the meet with a victory in the 200-yard medley relay.
Both teams finished the week with Thursday meets. The Bushmen posted a 119-58 win over the Goshen Gladiators, while the Vikings fell, 103-71 to the Washingtonville Wizards.
Pine Bush 114, Valley Central 62
200-yard medley relay: 1. Valley Central (Grabinski, Dickman, Grabinski, Nasser) - 1:50.27; 2. Pine Bush (Blackwell, Licardi, Devlin, Donaldson) - 1:55.09; 3. Valley Central (Geiselhart, Storaska, Elkashef, Primavera) - 2:08.69; 4. Pine Bush (Hernandez, Hufcut, Vero, Gandolfini) - 2:10.31.
200-yard freestyle: 1. Charles Hufcut (PB) - 1:57.50; 2. Joshua Gallagher (PB) - 2:05.30; 3. Thomas Grabinski (VC) - 2:06.71; 4. Jayden McCord (PB) - 2:14.46; 5. Patrick Primavera (VC) - 2:28.17; 6. Alfred Ronaldson (VC) - 2:37.37.
200-yard individual medley: 1. Kellen Dickman (VC) - 2:04.25; 2. Tomek Oakes (PB) - 2:07.14; 3. Dominic Licardi (PB) - 2:28.70; 4. Noah Storaska (VC) - 2:28.44; 5. Adam Elkashef (VC) - 2:45.30; 6. Matthew Webster (PB) - 2:45.97.
50-yard freestyle: 1. Bryce Sloley (PB) - 23.84; 2. Timothy Grabinski (VC) - 24.20; 3. Andrew Donaldson (PB) - 24.34; 4. Gabriel Nasser (VC) - 25.3; 5. Blaze Devlin (PB) - 25.85; 6. Caleb Ahlstrom (VC) - 27.24.
Diving: 1. Kaeden Fisher (PB) - 217.25.
100-yard butterfly: 1. Kellen Dickman (VC) - 55.84; 2. Bryce Sloley (PB) - 59.30; 3. Tomek Oakes (PB) - 59.85; 4. Blaze Devlin (PB) - 1:03.63; 5. Thomas Geiselhart (VC) - 1:18.23.
100-yard freestyle: 1. Charles Hufcut (PB) - 53.17; 2. Andrew Donaldson (PB) - 56.30; 3. Gabriel Nasser (VC) - 56.83; 4. Liam Blackwell (PB) - 59.09; 5. Caleb Sahlstrom (VC) - 1:03.43; 6. Patrick Primavera (VC) - 1:06.24.
500-yard freestyle: 1. Timothy Grabinski (VC) - 5:51.15; 2. Jayden McCord (PB) - 6:04.05; 3. Jack Vero (PB) - 6:19.37; 4. Matthew Webster (PB) - 6:27.82; 5. Michael Dattore (VC) - 7:05.31; 6. Liam Giger (VC) - 7:52.18.
200-yard freestyle relay: 1. Pine Bush (Sloley, Donaldson, Hufcut, Oakes) - 1:35.10; 2. Valley Central (Dickman, Grabinski, Nasser, Grabinski) - 1:37.94; 3. Pine Bush (Gandolfini, Vuksanovich, Fisher, McCord) - 1:47.78; 4. Valley Central (Geiselhart, Storaska, Primavera, Sahlstrom) - 1:51.39; 5. Pine Bush (Echevarria, Vero, Webster, Cruz) - 2:12.27; 6. Valley Central (Ronaldson, Gourdet, Dattore, Geiger) - 2:13.59.
100-yard backstroke: 1. Joshua Gallagher (PB) - 1:02.44; 2. Thomas Grabinski (VC) - 1:04.22; 3. Liam Blackwell (PB) - 1:04.94; 4. Lorenzo Hernandez (PB) - 1:12.14; 5. Thomas Geiselhart (VC) - 1:33.92; 6. Nathanael Gourdet (VC) - 1:59.30.
100-yard breaststroke: 1. Dominic Licardi (PB) - 1:12.63; 2. Daniel Hufcut (PB) - 1:20.48; 3. Adam Elkashef (VC) - 1:20.71; 4. Daniel Healy (PB) - 1:22.87; 5. Noah Storaska (VC) - 1:24.44
400-yard freestyle: 1. Pine Bush (Sloley, Hufcut, Devlin, Oakes) - 3:40.67; 2. Pine Bush (Vuksanovich, Blackwell, Gallagher, McCord) - 4:06.86; 3. Valley Central (Sahlstrom, Elkashef, Dattore, Ronaldson) - 4:31.16.