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It was a neck-and-neck battle, but the Central Catholic swim and dive team eventually pulled out the 85-80 nailbitter over Lowell. Maddy Marcella certainly did her part for the Raiders, winning the 50 freestyle (26.27) while swimming a leg on the winning 200 medley relay team (2:10.13).

Trailing North Andover 87-84 heading into the final relay, Methuen-Tewksbury's Samantha DeNaro, Julia Galuska, Callie DeLano and Ava Facella won 4:17.37 to 4:18.44. Coupled with M-T's third-place in the event it was enough for a thrilling 94-91 win.

Haverhill's swimming team opened its season with a victory for new coach Meghan Feran, 97-79 over Billerica. Freshman Jackie Story won two eventsand was on two winning relays and sophomore Carli Quinlan won the 50 freestyle and was also on the winning relays. Freshman Sophia Lundgren had a fine winning score of 187.30 in diving.

BOSTON — 60 straight meet wins for the seniors. Five straight Division 1 state championships for the program.

CAMBRIDGE — Julia Donahue and Eliza Williams scored Andover’s only two victories, but the Golden Warriors still took home the North Sectional swim championship on Sunday at MIT.

Andover's brilliant senior class wrapped up a 48-0 dual meet career with a 104-79 win over Chelmsford and now they plan to continue their traditional post-season dominance. Those 11 seniors who have worn the Blue and Gold proudly over the last four years are: Vic Ambrose, Jordy Clements, Julia Donahue, Mia Galat, Sydney Ho, Zoe Nepomnayshy, Rebecca Page, Samira Sayan, Nika Sokolova, Riley Spring and Andreea Zetea.

Freshman Charlotte Moulson swam to first in the 500 freestyle to highlight Andover's 99-82 win over Belmont. Mia Galat won the 200 IM and was on three winning relays for the Warriors (11-0), who also took second in every relay.

Trailing by one entering the final relay (400 freestyle), Haverhill's Taylor Waligora, Carli Quinlan, Katelyn Quinlan and Meghan Driscoll won in 3:54.97 for a thrilling win over perennial power Chelmsford. It was Haverhill's first win over the Lions since 2013.

Polina Malinovskaya posted her first double-win and Andover captured every event in routing Billerica. The versatile sophomore took the 50 freestyle and 500 freestyle. 

Andrea Pantazi, Riley Spring and Addie Earle had big meets for Andover swimming which keeps on rolling along. The easy win over Dracut lifted Andover to 8-0 on the fall.

Former diver Emily Driscoll won the 100 backstroke and Meaghan Driscoll was the 100 breaststroke winner and was on three winning relay teams as Haverhill improved to 6-1 with a 98-75 rout of Lowell.

Kyra Donahue won the 100 breaststroke, Kara Davidson took the 50 freestyle, Samanta DeNaro won the 200 IM and they teamed with Julia Galuska to take the 200 medley relay as Methuen traveled to Worcester and beat Notre Dame 62-25. The Rangers won every event.

The Methuen-Tewksbury swim team bounced back from a loss to Haverhill with a dominating 97-75 win over Billerica. Kyra Donahue had sectional qualifying times in the 200 IM and 100 freestyle and Kara Davidson had state qualifying times in the 200 and 500 freestyle as the Red Rangers won every event.

Andover won every event to roll past Lowell. Andover had some new names strutting their stuff with Emily Chen, Aliza Williams, Lauren Bresette and freshman Charlotte Moulson among the standouts.