BALTIMORE –
Max Verheyen won both breaststroke events for the Loyola university Maryland men's swimming and diving teams on Friday, but both the Greyhounds men's and women's teams lost in Patriot League meet action to visiting Bucknell University.
Verheyen took top honors in the 100-yard breastroke (57.07) and the 200 version of the event (2:07.62) to finish as the men's team's top scorer.
Patrick Hayburn (100-yard backstroke, 50.83) and
Henry Mueller (200-yard backstroke, 1:53.37) were also individual winners for the Loyola men.
Lily Mead picked up the women's team's lone win, touching the wall first in the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:07.62.
The Bison secured wins over the men, 188-106, and the women, 230-70.
Alex Plavoukos finished second in the men's 1,000-yard freestyle (9:41.84) with Matthew Gray (9:57.53) and Dylan Champagna (10:08.32), scoring as well in fourth and fifth.
Mueller and Voight were third and fourth, respectively, in the 200-yard freestyle with times of 1:42.97 and 1:45.68.
Hayburn's win in the 100-yard backstroke was backed up by a second-place finish by
Jonathan Brooks who placed in 52.17, while
Casey Brown was fifth in 53.49.
Zach Eisenmann was fourth in the 100-yard breaststroke behind Verheyen, swimming 58.57.
Sung Lee,
Reid Hussey and
Ryan Atwood were three-four-five in the 200-yard buttefly with times of 1:55.77, 1:56.05 and 1:57.36.
Caleb Kelly was edged at the wall in the 50-yard freestyle by 18-hundredths of a second, finishing second in 20.72, while
Jimmy Hayburn was fifth in 21.44. Kelly had an even closer second-place finish in the 100-yard freestyle, clocking 46.24, one-hundredth of second behind Bucknell's Leo Kuyl.
Loyola had two more one-two finish with Mueller and
Matt Voight turning the feat in the 200-yard backstroke in 1:53.37 and 1:55.00, respectively. Brown was fifth in the event in 1:56.26.
Verheyen and Eisenmann then finished in same fashion in the next men's event, swimming 2:07.62 and 2:08.61.
Plavoukos and Mueller placed fourth and fifth in the 500-yard freestyle in 4:47.38 and 4:47.64. Lee,
Patrick Hayburn and Brooks had second (49.67), third (50.40) and fifth (52.09) finishes in the 100-yard butterfly.
Verheyen added to his pair of wins with a second-place finish in the 200-yard individual medley (1:53.26), while Hussey was fourth (1:57.15) with Voight (1:57.26) and
Tyler Stewart (1:57.79) right behind.
In women's racing,
Gianna Moscetti,
Elena Mugno and
Kylie Preihs were third (10:59.87), fourth (11:06.65) and fifth (11:13.62), respectively, in the 1,000-yard freestyle, and
Lauren Joyce took fifth in the 200-yard freestyle (2:00.82).
Greyhounds filled the second through fifth spots in the 100-yard backstroke, led by Mead's 58.46.
Elizabeth Walsh was third in 59.63, followed by
Stella Meyerhoeffer (59.92) and
Maggie Manchester (1:02.18).
Allison Wade took fifth in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:12.11), less than a second ahead of
Morgan Fuerbacher (1:12.96).
Molly Davis and
Laura Latham were fourth and fifth, respectively, in the 200-yard butterfly, swimming 2:11.50 and 2:15.25.
Amanda Cradock finished fourth in the 50-yard freestyle in 25.53, followed closely by
Alison Prushinski (25.76) and
Fay Moser (25.77).
Mya Sharkey was fourth in the 3-meter diving, scoring 222.75 points, and she finished sixth in the 1-meter in 205.12.
Izzy Barnette placed third in the 100-yard freestyle (54.21), while
Fay Moser was fifth in 54.45.
Mead, Meyerhoeffer and Joyce were second (2:08.48), third (2:10.49) and fifth (2:13.63), in the 200-yard backstroke. Wade and Guerbacher took fourth (2:34.67) and fifth (2:38.56) in the 200-yard breaststroke.
Mugno finished third in the 500-yard freestyle (5:17.75), while
Laura Latham was had the same finish in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 58.71. Kaitlin Witkop and Barnette were fifth and sixth in the same event in 59.37 and 59.76.
The Greyhounds will swim their penultimate dual meet of the season next week when they host Towson University at 12 noon on Wednesday, January 19.