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NORWICH – In a close scoring meet, the visiting Sherburne-Earlville Marauders edged out the Norwich swimmers, 80-75 in a non-league swim meet last Friday.

During the inter-county meet, a few events had exciting finishes as racers were able to just out reach their opponent for the win.

In the 100-yard Butterfly, Sherburne-Earlville’s Caleb Larchar edged out Norwich’s Matt Giglio by six one-hundredths of a second. Coming in behind the first was Sherburne-Earlville’s Sean McDaniel.

Later on the in the meet, the 100-yard Breaststroke was claimed by Caleb Larcher with a time of 1:16.94. But the third and fourth place racers gave the event a thrilling finish.

Norwich received the upper hand in this one with swimmer Ryan Loeffler finishing with a time of 1:23.42, just three one-hundredths of a second head of the Marauders’ Josh Larchar.

Also in the 100-yard Breaststroke, Norwich’s Ayden Hagar swam just behind in fifth-place with a personal best time of 1:24.70. Hagar had a strong showing in the meet as he recorded his second personal best time of the night in the 50-yard Freestyle race. His time of 27.79 was good enough for a second place finish.

In the quick, sprinted race through the water, it was Sherburne-Earlville’s Ian Wilson finishing first with a time of 27.03 to beat out Hagar.