HAMILTON, N.Y. – The Loyola University Maryland men's and women's swimming and diving teams swept its Patriot League competition on Saturday, winning a pair of dual meets against Lehigh and host Colgate.
The women edged the Mountain Hawks, 168-131, and dispatched the Raiders, 201-98, while the men's team defeated the pair by scores of 213-80 and 237-47, respectively.
Loyola's men set pool records at Colgate in the 400 medley and 200 freestyle relays, adding to a growing list of records swiped by the Greyhounds this year.
JD Moyer,
Michael Gozdan, Hans Van Lierop and
Brennan Coyle knocked off a record last set in 2001 by Army West Point with a 400 medley relay time of 3:20.42.
Gozdan, Coyle,
Liam Schindler and
Henry Mueller later set a 200 freestyle relay record in 1:22.59.
Kelly Bruen,
Avery Stimmel,
Michela Schultz and
Fay Moser opened the meet with a victory for the women in the 400 medley relay, swimming 3:52.59 for a win by more than 1.5 seconds over Lehigh.
CC Leoni had a second-place finish in the opening women's individual event, going 10:40.36 in the 1,000 freestyle for the Greyhounds;
Faith Karr was close behind in third in 10:46.17.
Michela Schultz and
Kate O'Brien were then second and third, respectively, in the 200 freestyle in 1:57.33 and 1:58.64. Leoni made an impressive turn to come back in that event and place fifth (1:59.83).
Bruen picked up an individual win in the 100 backstroke with a time of 59.47, holding off a Lehigh swimmer by 0.41 seconds.
Grace Dwyer captured third (1:00.54), and
Lauren Lane was fourth (1:00.59).
Stimmel swam 1:05.46 for win by more than a second in the 100 breaststroke. She later won the 100 freestyle in 52.93, leading a one-two-three sweep for the Greyhounds where Moser was second (53.04) and
Haley Robinson (53.41) was third;
Charley Tulio took fifth in the event in 53.78.
Riley Fried led four Loyola women in the 200 butterfly's top five, winning in 2:06.44.
Julia Mason was second in 2:08.95, and
Adrianna Caponiti was fourth in 2:09.60, and
Laura Latham took fifth in 2:13.94.
Tulio and Robinson were first and second in the women's 50 freestyle with times of 23.93 and 24.15, and Moser finished fifth in 24.68.
Cali Fasser finished third in the women's 1-meter diving with 227.70 points, and she had 231.60 points in the 3-meter event for another third-place finish.
Lauren Lane had the women's best finish in the 200 backstroke, going 2:07.72 for second.
Samantha Yerkes was third (2:09.62), and
Grace Dwyer took fifth (2:10.79).
Fried and
Noelle Hoffman were third and fourth, respectively, in the women's 200 breaststroke in2:28.61 and 2:28.75.
Schultz finished third in the 500 freestyle in 5:15.25, while Caponiti was fourth (5:15.73) and Leoni fifth (5:15.81). Schultz then won the 100 butterfly in 57.64, while Mason and Robinson tied for fourth with times of 58.78.
Fried claimed third in the women's 200 individual medley with a time of 2:11.00, and Mason finished fifth in 2:13.30.
The women's team of Stimmel, Robinson, Moser and Tulio close the meet with a win in the 200 freestyle relay, swimming 1:35.57.
Matthew Hughes and
Hayden Bartz went one-two in the men's 1,000 freestyle, swimming 9:43.68 and 9:44.56, respectively.
Tyler Knurek was a winner for the Greyhounds men in the 200 freestyle, swimming 1:42.13, while
Jonah Goodman was third (1:43.66).
Moyer had an individual win in the 100 backstroke for the men, touching first in 51.15.
Michael Gozdan (56.56),
Zach Eisenmann (57.01) and Coyle (57.58) were first, second and third, respectively in the men's 100 breaststroke, and
Michael Venit picked up fifth in 58.61.
Luke Dwyer (1:53.06),
Hayden Bartz (1:56.66) and Mueller (1:57.36) then turned the one-two-three feat in the 200 butterfly for the men's side.
Sam Hersick and
Thomas McCarthy went first and second in the men's 3-meter event with point totals of 264.80 and 219.05. They then flipped spots with McCarthy scoring 285.45 in the 1-meter for the win, while Hersick scored 272.55 for second.
Schindler and Knurek were second and third in the men's 50 freestyle, swimming 21.25 and 21.53, respectively, and Van Lierop finished fifth in 21.68.
Mueller won the 100 freestyle for the men in 45.84, and Schindler finished second 46.92.
Moyer scored another win with a victory in the 200 backstroke, finishing first in 1:53.19.
Owen Glaser claimed second in 1:54.26, and
Sam Voss was third (1:55.74).
Eisenmann and Venit went one-two in the men's 200 breastroke with times of 2:06.71 and 2:10.44, while
Elias Corn and
Floyd Conlin were fourth and fifth in 2:11.97 and 2:12.90.
Bartz won the men's 500 freestyle (4:40.70), just in front of Hughes (4:41.73), Goodman (4:41.83),
Alex Plavoukos (4:44.30) and Matthew Gray (4:45.35) for a top-five sweep.
Mueller was a winner for the second time, taking first in the 100 butterfly (50.03). Knurek (50.83), Dwyer (50.87) and Schindler (50.89) were third, fourth and fifth.
Dwyer, Glaser and Conlin finished second, third and fourth, respectively, in the 200 individual medley, swimming 1:55.98, 1:57.03 and 1:58.64.