BALTIMORE – The Loyola University Maryland men's and women's swimming and diving teams increased their leads over Towson, UMBC and Mount St. Mary's on the second of three days at the 26th-annual Thomas Murphy Invitational.
The men's team set four meet and two Mangione Pool records and lead with 2,461 points. Towson is second with 1,765 points, followed by UMBC (1,489) and Mount St. Mary's (416).
Loyola's women lead Towson, 2,323 to 1,776 with UMBC (1,525) and Mount St. Mary's (572) in third and fourth.
The Greyhounds men bookended the evening's finals with pool and meet records in the two relays.
Joe Hayburn,
Brennan Coyle,
Luke Dwyer and
Derek Feldman were the quartet for both the 200 freestyle and 400 medley relays, setting records in 1:18.86 in the former in 3:11.96.
Loyola's women's 400 medley relay with
Maeve Brandenburg,
Meghan Donovan,
Haley Robinson and
Gianna Davis scored a victory in 3:43.98, and Robinson was an individual winner in the 100 butterfly.
She swam 54.42 in the morning preliminary round and then came back to win the final in 54.75 seconds.
Virginia Walsh was third in 55.91 and Brandenburg finished a spot behind in 56.22.
Davia Richardson,
Julia Mason and
Gianna Davis took sixth, seventh and ninth in 56.57, 56.62 and 56.89, respectively.
Dwyer earned an individual first-place finish in the 100 butterfly, swimming 47.79 to be first to the wall.
Gavin Abelende and
Grant Haley were third and fourth in 48.79 and 49.00, while
Liam Schindler took sixth in 49.45.
Riley Fried led Loyola in the women's 400 individual medley, swimming 4:29.33 for fourth, a place in front of
Noelle Hoffman and her 4:33.28 time.
Kate O'Brien and finished eighth in 4:37.73.
Cody Miles won the men's 400 individual medley by almost five seconds, swimming 3:57.71.
Kiernan Leary went 4:07.50 for eighth and
Matthew Hughes was ninth in 4:07.80.
Lauren Lane finished third in the women's 200 freestyle to lead Loyola in the event with a time of 1:53.19, edging Cecelia van Lierop and her 1:53.37.
Maddie Testa took seventh in 1:54.97, and
Abby Hays was ninth in 1:56.53.
Colin Davis set a meet record in the 200 freestyle with a victory in the event for the Loyola men, swimming 1:38.42 to hold off
Gavin Abelende who was second in 1:38.41.
The Greyhounds took the top five spots in the race with
Thomas Cechini (1:38.47),
Hugo Sanchez (1:39.69) and
LJ Conlin (1:39.97) following Davis and Abelende.
Donovan led a one-two-three finish for Loyola in the women's 100 breaststroke. She swam 1:02.66 with
Bryce Gold (1:03.82) and
Hannah Oslislo (1:04.36) taking second and third.
Riley McGerald was seventh in 1:05.39 with
Makenna O'Brien finishing ninth in 1:07.14.
Jack Hathaway and Coyle were second and third, respectively, in the 100 breaststroke for the men, finishing 54.80 and 54.92.
Kaden Fatta took sixth (56.51),
Elias Corn was seventh (56.65) and
Jack Hamilton took ninth (57.26).
Brandenburg and
Kelly Bruen finished one-two in the women's 100 backstroke with swims of 56.21 and 56.55 seconds. Walsh finished fourth in 56.89,
Molly Hoben was sixth in 57.33 and
Samantha Yerkes finished ninth in 1:00.20.
Hayburn took down a meet record in the men's 100 backstroke, swimming 46.12 seconds.
JD Moyer was second in 49.01, while
Thomas Kalka III took fourth in 49.51.
Ben Schlotterer finished sixth in 50.30.
Diving at the invitational started on Saturday afternoon with the women's 3-meter and men's 1-meter boards.
Cali Fasser finished fourth in the women's 3-meter with 233.15 points, just in front of
Kate Mundorf's 231.50.
Kaleigh O'Brien scored 211.30 for eighth, and
Annie Dockx was ninth with 209.55.
Thomas McCarthy led the men in the 1-meter with a sixth-place finish with 256.55.20 points, and
George Ligozio scored 248.40 for seventh.
Sam Hersick scored 236.85 for eighth.