ANNAPOLIS, Md. –
Henry Mueller capped his first Patriot League Championships with a title in the 200-yard backstroke, winning the third event for the Loyola University Maryland men's and women's swimming and diving teams at the 2022 Patriot League Championships.
Mueller's victory helped the men's team finish in fourth place, while
Lily Mead took second in the 200-yard backstroke after her victory Friday in the 100-yard version of the discipline, and the women's team finished sixth overall.
Mead touched the wall in 1:58.07 in her race to take second behind Navy's Gabi Baldwin (1:57.41), while
Stella Meyerhoeffer scored a 10
th-place finish in 2:04.43.
Mueller was next up, and he covered the final 100 yards in 54.19 seconds to hold off top-seeded Sam Wesley of Army West Point, finishing in 1:45.74 to match the school record he set in the morning's preliminaries.
Patrick Hayburn finished ninth in the race in 1:47.25, while
Matt Voight was 12
th in 1:50.63.
Caleb Kelly logged a second-place finish in the 100-yard freestyle, setting a school record in 43.63 seconds, a NCAA B-Cut time that was just four-hundredths of a second off Owen Harlow's winning time.
Jimmy Hayburn went 45.34 to finish eighth in the race.
The men's 400-yard freestyle relay –
Caleb Kelly,
Jimmy Hayburn,
Max Verheyen and
Reid Hussey – set a new school record, going 2:56.06 to finish second. The group took more than a second off the previous best set last season.
Four Greyhounds scored in the men's 200-yard butterfly, led by
Harry Hearn's 1:48.11 in fourth place.
Reid Hussey tied for seventh in 1:48.63, and
Sung Lee was 10
th in 1:48.88.
Tyler Stewart clocked 1:51.07 for 15
th.
The women's 400-yard freestyle relay team – Mead,
Laura Latham,
Izzy Barnette and
Fay Moser – finished sixth in 3:26.38
Molly Davis was 16
th in the women's 200-yard butterfly in 2:05.11.
Mya Sharkey was 15
th in the women's 3-meter diving event, scoring 222.90 points.
Alex Plavoukos scored for the Greyhounds in the 1,650-yard freestyle, completing the meet's longest race in 15:39.32 for an eight-place finish.
Zach Eisenmann and
Michael Gozdan were 13
th and 14
th, respectively in the 200-yard breaststroke, with times of 2:02.64 and 2:02.66.