NEW HAVEN - A stellar diving season ended at the CIAC State Open for CJ Maurer and Steve Truitt of Newtown High School.

By KIM HARMON

Published: Mar 26, 2004 12:00 am

NEW HAVEN â A stellar diving season ended at the CIAC State Open for CJ Maurer and Steve Truitt of Newtown High School.

Maurer (the 2003-04 South-West Conference champion) finished fifth with 335.10 points while Truitt (who narrowly missed qualifying for the Opens last year, but earned an opportunity this year) finished 14th with 299.75 points.

Daniel Mazzaferro of Cheshire earned the Open title with an 11-dive effort of 442.40 points. Mark Gilbert of Fitch, Devon OâNalty of East Hartford, and Stephen Ferreira of Hand all followed. Ferreira finished just 3/10ths of a point ahead of Maurer.

Maurer and Truitt, together, scored 21 points and enabled Newtown to finish 29th as a team. Greenwich earned the team title with 429 points while Notre Dame of West Haven and Amity Regional of Woodbridge came in second and third.

Brookfield, the 2003-04 SWC champs, finished 11th with 90.5 points and Pomperaug finished 17th with 40 points.

In the CIAC Class L finals recently, Newtown finished ninth overall with 131 points (Notre Dame of West Haven was the Class L champion and perennial powerhouse Cheshire was second).

Individually â

The 200 medley relay team of Zack Moliver, Andrew Heller, Jake Maher and Chris Jacob finished ninth at 1:46.28 and in the 200 freestyle, Jacob was 12th at 1:54.89. In the 200 individual medley, Heller finished 15th at 2:09.74 (two seconds off his preliminary time). In the 100 butterfly, Heller was ninth at 55.32 and in the 100 freestyle, Jacob was 17th at 51.98.

In the 200 freestyle relay, the foursome of Dave LaMarche, Maurer, Maher and Truitt was 11th at 1:39.03 and in the 100 backstroke, Moliver was 16th at 1:00.53. In the 100 breaststroke, Maher was 13th at 1:06.66 and in the 400 freestyle relay, the foursome of Jacob, LaMarche, Heller and Moliver was 11th at 3:33.81.

And in diving, CJ Maurer finished fifth at 365.25 points while Steve Truitt was eighth at 313.65. Bryan Lacouture finished 10th at 299.25 points and Lauren Borruso came in 18th at 256.20 points.

CLASS L: 1. Notre Dame (West Haven) 512, 2. Cheshire 362, 3. Amity Regional 359, 4. Staples 212, 5. Branford 201, 6. Fitch 180, 7. Hall 149, 8. Torrington 148.50, 9. Newtown 131, 10. Windsor 109, 11. Newington 105, 12. Naugatuck 85, 13. Guilford 65.50, 14. Ridgefield 63, 15. Farmington 54, 16. Hartford Public 43, 17. South Windsor 34, 18. Conard 28, 19. New London/Montville 15.

STATE OPEN: 1. Greenwich 429, 2. Notre Dame-West Haven 312, 3. Amity Regional 174.50, 4. Darien 153, 5. Xavier 151, 6. Cheshire 143, 7. Glastonbury 139, 8. New Canaan 132, 9. Wilton 121, 10. Trumbull/St. Joseph Co-op 92, 11. Brookfield 90.50, 12. Fairfield Prep 81, 13. Hand-Madison 70, 14. Staples 58, 15. Westhill/Stamford Co-op 55, 16. Branford 51, 17. Pomperaug 40, 17. Hall-West Hartford 40, 19. Fitch 39, 20. Watertown 38, 21. Manchester 37, 22. Haddam-Killingworth 35, 23. Windsor 34, 24. Hamden 33, 24. Guilford 33, 26. Torrington 31.50, 27. Bristol Co-op 26.50, 28. Rocky Hill 24, 29. Newtown 21, 29. East Hartford 21, 31. Sacred Heart 20, 32. Sheehan 19.50, 33. New Fairfield 19, 34. Weston 16, 35. Newington 15, 36. Farmington 14, 37. Norwalk 13, 38. Middletown 12, 39. Old Saybrook 11, 40. NW Regional 8, 41. New London/Montville Co-op 7, 42. Northwest Catholic 6, 42. St. Paul 6, 44. South Windsor 3.50, 45. Holy Cross 2, 46. Wethersfield 1.

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