Another sweet victory for Rolling Meadows at Leyden

Rolling Meadows' boys swimming team took top honors in Saturday's Leyden Invitational, finishing with 281 points. West Chicago was second at 158.

It's the third straight year the Mustangs have won the meet - and, as tradition dictates, the third straight year they've savored the outcome over post-meet milkshakes.

Key performers included Josh Dellorto, a winner in both the 200-yard free (1:49.79) and the 100 backstroke (55.24). Dellorto teamed with Filip Pancerz for a 1-2 finish in the backstroke.

Other key finishes included a third-place effort from Jake Pors in the 100 breast (1:07.95) and a third-place finish from Andrew Tavares in the 100 fly (1:00.28).

Three seniors from last year's team, just back in the area from their college campuses for the holiday break, shared in the achievement as Tony Sarussi, Ryan Smith and Evan Meyer presented this year's edition of Rolling Meadows swimming with the winning hardware.

"Having those guys show up just made it a very special day for our team," said Rolling Meadows coach Monika Chiappetta.

at Downers Grove South: Palatine took third place in the 37th Annual Mustangs Invite, getting a couple of relay victories in the process.

Marcus Carter-Buckman, Alex Bartosik, Jordan Kalina and Oleksiy Korniychuk won the 200-yard medley relay in 1:43.14, and Jake Klein, Carter-Buckman, Korniychuk and Bartosik won the 400 free relay in 3:18.56.

Oak Park-River Forest won with 417 points, and Stagg (375) was second.

Individually, the Pirates had victories from Carter-Buckman in the 10 back (55.20) and from Klein the 500 free (5:03.05).

Other top-three efforts came from Klein in the 200 free (2nd, 1:51.77), Bartosik in the 200 IM (2nd, 2:01.31) and 100 breast (3rd, 1:03.73), Carter-Buckman in the 100 free (50.18) and Kalina in the 100 fly (56.46).

at Buffalo Grove: Cary-Grove won the frosh-soph invite hosted by the Bison, finishing with 595 points to top runner-up Fenwick (536) along with Fremd (515) and Barrington (470).

St. Viator sophomore Michael Balcerak broke three pool records with winning performances while helping the Lions to a seventh-place finish - in the soph 200 free (1:44.23), in the soph 100 fly (52.22) and in the 50 free with a leadoff relay leg (21.85). Balcerak also won the soph 100 fly (52.42).

Fremd's winners included Alex Schillinger (soph 200 IM, 2:08.95 and 100 breast, 1:04.18), Cameron Dunne (frosh 100 free, 54.74), Zach Mega (soph diving, 229.20) and Yoochan Lee (frosh 100 breast, 1:02.36, and 200 IM, 2:05.46).

Wheeling's Jacob Gorenyuk won the frosh 50 free and 100 fly, and St. Viator's Michael Wendling won the soph 500 free.

Cary-Grove's individual champs included Nick Jasinski in the soph 100 back (55.87) and Omid Babakhani in the soph 50 free (23.68).

Prospect had a winner in frosh diving, where Aaron Busiel took top honors at 145.20.