WATERVILLE, Maine — Senior Garin Stone (Barrington, R.I.) tallied 57 points behind a pair of personal-record swims to lead the Wheaton College (Mass.) women's swimming & diving team to a fifth-place finish today at the Maine Collegiate Swimming & Diving Winter Invitational at the Harold Alfond Athletics and Recreation Center Aquatics Center in Waterville, Maine.

The Lyons scored 271 points for the two-day, three-session meet. Host No. 19 Colby College won the meet by more than 600 points with a count of 1349.5 points. Division I University of Maine was the runner-up with 744.5 points, while Bowdoin College was third with 672.5 points, ahead of Bates College's total of 626.5 points.

Stone turned in four top-11 finishes over both of the day's two sessions, including three top-four efforts. She won the 200-yard freestyle with a season-best mark of 1:53.54 to go with a third-place showing in the 100-yard backstroke with a personal-record time of 58.53. Stone finished fourth in the 100-yard freestyle after touching the wall with a 52.49 clip. She closed out her individual efforts with a personal-best time of 1:00.77 to place 11th in the 100-yard individual medley for Wheaton.

Senior Talia Dalton (Andover, Minn.) scored 20 points, highlighted by a sixth-place finish in the 1650-yard freestyle with a time of 17:52.12 in addition to placing 10th in the 200-yard freestyle with a mark of 1:57.34 for the Lyons. Classmate Emma Claire Lambert-Shemo (Cleveland, Ohio) registered 13 points with a season-best time of 2:28.57 to place sixth in the 200-yard breaststroke. 

Stone, Lambert-Shemo and Dalton combined with Wheaton junior Anna St. Jean (Alexandria, Va.) to close out the meet with a season-best time of 3:37.82 to finish seventh in the 400-yard freestyle relay. The Lyons recorded another seventh-place showing in the 200-yard medley relay to open the day's competition. Dalton opened with the backstroke, before Lambert-Shemo swam the breaststroke leg, followed by Stone in the butterfly. St. Jean anchored the race in the freestyle as part of their 1:51.32 time. 

First year Lauren Bullins (Lenexa, Kan.) tallied nine points after notching points in a pair of events for Wheaton. The rookie placed 12th in the 200-yard breaststroke with a season-best time of 2:36.84. Earlier in the day, she turned in a personal-record mark of 18:53.28 to finish 13th in the 1650-yard freestyle. Junior Kelsey Callaghan (Vestal, N.Y.) finished 11th in the 200-yard breaststroke with a season-best clip of 2:36.69. 

First year Margeaux Anselmi (Pearl River, N.Y.), junior Kaleigh Morton (Milford, Conn.) and senior Grace Chin (Blooming Grove, N.Y.) all scored points behind season-best times in an event for the Lyons. Anselmi finished 12th in the 400-yard individual medley with a time of 4:50.84 and Morton came in 13th in the 200-yard backstroke with a mark of 2:14.59. Chin registered a time of 5:09.46 to finish 15th in the 400-yard IM.

Wheaton returns to the pool on Friday, January 9 when it travels to South Hadley, Mass. to take on Clark University and host Mount Holyoke College at 10:30 a.m.