Women's Swimming & Diving Defeats UMass.-Dartmouth and NEWMAC foe WPI

LOCATION: Dartmouth, Mass. (Tripp Athletic Center)

THE RUNDOWN:

The Wheaton College women's swimming & diving team returned to action Wednesday evening, picking up wins over UMass.-Dartmouth (194-26) and New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) foe WPI (140-100) in the Tripp Athletic Center.
Eva Pet, Elizabeth Bernardy, Lydia DaCorte, and Maggie Lawler got things going with a win in the 200-yard medley relay, which saw the quartet finish with a time of 1:53.81.
Kayleigh Foley earned the Lyons a few points in the 1000 freestyle after finishing in third place with a time of 11:32.13.
Caitlin Daley and Delia MacLaughlin finished back-to-back in the women's 200 free with Daley winning the race in 2:01.84. MacLaughlin finished close behind with a time of 2:02.96. The pair also finished in the same order in the 100 free, this time with Daley touching in 56.05 and MacLaughlin in 56.60.
The seventh event of the night, the 50 free, saw a second place finish from Lawler (25.67), while Pet took third in the women's 200 IM (2:20.62).
Maddy Morrison earned Wheaton a first-place finish in the 1-meter dive with a score of 259.70. She returned to action later in the night, earning yet another win, this time in the 3-meter dive, with a score of 273.35.
DaCorte finished in second place in the 100 butterfly with a time of 59.78. The sophomore followed that with a win in the 500 free with a time of 5:13.66. Foley picked up points with a third-place finish after touching in 5:36.98.
Pet and Kathryn Cole finished in the top two spots in the 100 backstroke with Pet winning the race with a time of 1:01.61, while Cole took second with a final time of 1:02.39.
Bernardy won the 100 breaststroke for Wheaton, finishing the event in 1:11.17, while junior Erin Kean finished third with a time of 1:11.64.
Wheaton collected a win in the night's final event, the 200 free relay, with the team of Jesse Stewart, Emma Flesher, Holly Cohan, and Jessica Love finishing in 1:39.76.