Home 'Sweet Home' for Amherst girls swimming

Amherst Central's Brianne Burton swims the breaststroke portion of the 200-yard individual medley during the team's 110-66 home win against Iroquois at Sweet Home on Tuesday, Oct. 3. All of Amherst's home meets will be held at Sweet Home. Photo by John Rusac

The Amherst Central varsity girls swim team continued on the winning track Tuesday, Oct. 3 with a win 110-66 win at home against Iroquois, improving to 3-1 on the year.

Through an agreement with the Sweet Home School District, Amherst is swimming all "home" meets in the 8-lane pool at Sweet Home high school.

"Having this first class facility for home meets makes a tremendous difference in how we plan the lineup," said coach Ann Crittendon. "It makes those third to fifth place finishes more important in the scoring and allows us to get more girls some competitive experience."

Personal best times were turned in by Emilie Byrd in the 100 free, Emily Call (200 and 500 free), Jennifer Burke (100 back), Melissa Tschamler (200 IM and 100 free), Andrea Pratt (200 IM) and Michelle Niblock (200 IM).

"All the girls are showing improvement as the season progresses which gets us closer to our team goal of qualifying as many swimmers for the ECIC meet as possible,"added coach Kim Skomra.

Strong performances were also recorded by Jordan Beamer, Allison Scaringi, Megan Dean and Betsy Winkler.

Amherst swims West Seneca East at home on Friday. They swam Maryvale Tuesday but results were unavailable.