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Egg Harbor Twp. retains swim title

Last year, they were chasing the title. This year, they were defending it. The result was the same for the Egg Harbor Township girls' swimming team, as the Eagles won the South Public A title last night with a 93-71 victory over Vineland (9-2) at Gloucester County Institute of Technology.

    by Phil Anastasia, Inquirer Staff Writer
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Last year, they were chasing the title. This year, they were defending it.

The result was the same for the Egg Harbor Township girls' swimming team, as the Eagles won the South Public A title last night with a 93-71 victory over Vineland (9-2) at Gloucester County Institute of Technology.

"Last year, we were hoping to win it," Egg Harbor senior MacKenzie Howarth said of the team's upset of top-seeded Mainland. "This year, we knew we could win it."

Howarth and fellow senior Holly Berenato each won two individual events and swam on a winning relay to lead top-seeded Egg Harbor (11-0).

Howarth won the 200 individual medley and 100 backstroke, and swam a leg on the winning 200 medley relay.

Berenato won the 50 freestyle and 100 freestyle, and anchored the winning 400 freestyle relay.

The Results

Egg Harbor Township 93, Vineland 71

200-yard medley relay: EHT (MacKenzie Howarth, Shannon Howarth, Amanda Zipf, Stephanie Hauck), 1:53.87; 200 freestyle: Laura Castello, EHT, 2:01.29; 200 IM: M. Howarth, EHT, 2:11.36; 50 freestyle: Holly Berenato, EHT, 24.61; 100 butterfly: Sarah Bernhardt, V, 58.46; 100 freestyle: Berenato, EHT, 24.61.

500 freestyle: Castello, EHT, 5:29.19; 200 freestyle relay: Vineland (Lauren Carastro, Anastasiya Novatorskaya, Christine Watts, Sarah Bernhardt), 1:42.91; 100 backstroke: M. Howarth, EHT, 1:02.15; 100 breaststroke: Lauren Carastro, V, 1:08.40; 400 freestyle relay: EHT (Hauck, M. Howarth, Castello, Berenato), 3:44.97.