BALTIMORE – Loyola University Maryland swimmers set four meet, three pool and one American record on Friday during the first day of the 26th-annual Thomas Murphy Invitational.
 
Cara Pennington just missed out on setting an American Paralympic record in the 500 yards during the morning preliminary session, finishing her heat just two-tenths of a second off the previous S9 category best of 5:31.70.
 
She came back in the evening, however, and swam 5:27.91 in the finals to record a new national record.
 
Her record was one of the several the Greyhounds set on Friday, starting with Haley Robinson's bid in the women's 50 freestyle. She clocked 22.83 seconds in the morning, but that time would be clipped in the finals by UMBC's Ashley Gutshall by one-hundredth of a second. Robinson then finished second in the final in 22.92.
 
Joe Hayburn set a pair of records for the Greyhounds men, the first coming in the form of a meet record in the morning's 50 freestyle preliminaries where he went 19.97 seconds.
 
Hayburn came back in the evening to win the final in meet and Mangione Pool record time of 19.67 seconds, edging teammate Derek Feldman for the top spot. Feldman swam 19.99 seconds.
 
During the evening, Habyurn also set a pool record in the 50 backstroke with a leadoff time of 21.05 seconds as he combined with Brennan Coyle, Liam Schindler and Feldman for a win in 1:26.54 in the 200 medley relay.
 
Both the Greyhounds' men and women lead the meet through the first day.
 
Riley Fried won the 200 individual medley for the Loyola women, racing to a time of 2:05.51. McGerald took fourth in 2:08.29, while Kate O'Brien and Bryce Gold were fifth and sixth in 2:10.40 and 2:10.73.
 
Luke Dwyer was a winner in the 200 individual medley in the 200 individual medley, swimming 1:47.75. Jack Hathaway was fourth for Loyola in 1:50.34.
 
The women's 200 medley relay – Kelly Bruen, Riley McGerald, Christine Datovech and Donja Tripp – swam 1:42.82 for second, edging teammates Maeve Brandenberg, Meghan Donovan, Natalie Lomonosov and Gabby Jones who were third in 1:43.16.
 
A trio of Loyola women were in the top 10 of the women's 500 freestyle, led by Kellie Kincaid's sixth-place finish in 5:05.14. Lauren Lane and Ellie Davis took eighth and ninth, respectively, in 5:10.21 and 5:12.00.
 
Six men's swimmers were in the top nine of the 500 freestyle led by Matthew Hughes' third in 4:33.24. Cody Miles and Hayden Bartz tied for fourth in 4:34.24, while Kiernan Leary, Thomas Cechini and Chase Garcia were seventh, eighth and ninth in 4:37.67, 4:40.83 and 4:47.63.
 
Gianna Davis and Donja Tripp were fourth and fifth, respectively, in the 50 freestyle for the women with times of 23.29 and 23.57 seconds.
 
Three men's swimmers were in the top eight back of Hayburn and Feldman. Schindler, Coyle and Hugo Sanchez took sixth through eighth with times of 20.59, 20.63 and 20.65.
 
The meet will resume Saturday with preliminaries at 10 a.m., diving at 12:30 p.m. and finals at 6 p.m.