The Mount Desert Island boys and Bangor girls and boys swimming and diving teams will be out to defend their 2007 titles Monday and Tuesday in the state swimming and diving championships.

Both Class A meets will be held at the University of Maine’s Wallace Pool in Orono, while the Class B meets will both be held at Bowdoin College’s Greason Pool in Brunswick. Admission will be the same – $7 for adults and $4 for students – for all four meets.

Monday’s Class A boys meet will start with preliminary swims at 10:30 a.m. Diving prelims will follow the swimming prelim heats. The finals will start at 5 p.m. The schedule for the girls meet Tuesday will be the same.

Tuesday’s Class B boys meet begins at 10 a.m. with swimming prelims, followed by diving prelims. The swimming finals begin at 7 p.m.

The top 16 times from the morning heats advance to the evening consolation and championship races.

The Trojans, who are after their fifth straight Class B crown, will get a push from the Greely of Cumberland Center boys but MDI’s depth will likely be too much for the Rangers.

Justin Gilmartin, Ian Carbone and Ty Onda should be MDI’s primary point-scorers, but the Trojans have a lot more than just those three swimmers, including Patrick Breen, Michael Breen, Nigel Storer, Ben Cline, Cullen O’Brien, Evan Hendricks, and Abe Gladstone.

Belfast’s Tyler Bowen won the 200-yard individual medley and 100 backstroke last year. Drew Desrosiers and Ryan Trafton will lead John Bapst of Bangor, while Ellsworth’s Brian Batson is among the top Class B swimmers.

The Bangor girls are chasing their third Class A title in a row. The Rams’ top-seeded swimmers will include Erin Thomas, who is making her state-meet debut, along with Sorrell Cardello and Grace Barnett. Bangor could rack up a lot of points in the diving as Meghan Rowe, Ashley Higgins and Juliet Cobb all scored in the top eight at last year’s state meet. Those three, along with freshman Julie Clifford, have the top four scores in the state for 11-dive competitions.

Brewer’s Jessica Hodsdon is the defending state champion in the 50-yard freestyle and 100 breaststroke. Ana Peraza, an exchange student from Spain, could also score for the Witches.

The Bangor boys, who will battle Westbrook, Morse of Bath and Portland schools Deering and Cheverus, should get good swims from distance standout Joey Quinn, along with Taylor Wicks, Tyler Brookings and James Moreside. Brewer’s top swimmers include Andrew Meehan, also a distance specialist, along with brothers John and Brent Williams, and Zach Beaulier.

The Falmouth girls are in line for their fifth straight Class B team title, but Orono’s Lauren Dwyer, Bapst’s Tara Nitardy, Camden Hills of Rockport’s Lianne McCluskey, Foxcroft’s Marley Clark, Washington Academy of East Machias’ Alice McBride, and MDI standouts Julia Macauley and Chelsey Curran should all do plenty of scoring for their teams.

Hampden’s Erin Doucette was top eight in both the 200 free and 100 back in the 2007 Class A meet.

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