NORTON, Mass. – Senior Anna St. Jean (Alexandria, Va.) won a pair of events to lead the Wheaton College (Mass.) women's swimming & diving team in a 174-121 loss to visiting Bentley University this evening at Balfour Natatorium on the Wheaton campus in Norton, Mass.
The Lyons dip to 0-1 in their season opener, while the Falcons improve to 3-1.
Bentley won nine events, while the Lyons took seven.
St. Jean dominated the sprints, touching first in the 50-yard freestyle with a personal-best clip of 24.93 and the 100-yard freestyle with a personal-best mark of 54.51. First year Maya Moores (Gorham, Maine) enjoyed a memorable collegiate debut, racking up 16 points. She earned her first collegiate win with a time of 2:28.86 in the 200-yard breaststroke and placed second in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:20.51 and was third in the 200-yard freestyle with a personal-best time of 2:05.89.
Sophomore Lauren Bullins (Lenexa, Kan.) tallied 13 points for the home team, behind a win in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 5:24.27 and was second in the 1000-yard freestyle, hitting the wall at 11:18.83. First year Annika Marshall (Blue Hill, Maine) also collected her first win at the collegiate level with a mark of 1:02.97 in the 100-yard backstroke. She added a fourth-place effort in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 2:19.99. Sophomore Ella Kent (Framingham, Mass.) finished second on both the one and three-meter boards. She scored 167.33 points for the second-best mark on the one-meter diving board and piled up a career-high 168.45 points on the three-meter board.
Wheaton closed out the evening with a win in the 200-yard freestyle relay. St. Jean, first year Lauren Holmes (East Longmeadow, Mass.), Bullins and sophomore Amani Sodhi (Farmingdale, N.Y.) combined on a time of 1:42.52.
Senior Skyla Lang (Roseville, Calif.) won three events to lead Bentley. She won the 200-yard freestyle with a mark of 1:59.47 to go with wins in the 200-yard backstroke (2:10.47) and 200-yard individual medley (2:11.32). First year diver Taelor Nichols (Bedford, Mass.) also won multiple events for the Falcons, outscoring the field on both diving boards. She tallied 230.70 points on the one-meter board and 207.90 points on the three-meter board.
Bentley split the relays with Wheaton, winning the opening 400-medley relay behind senior Ava Young (Windham, N.H.) in the lead backstroke, before yielding to first year Madelyn Boyon (Seaford, N.Y.) in the breaststroke. Lang swam the butterfly, before senior Isabella Montanari (Interlaken, N.J.) closed out the race with the final 100 yards in the freestyle to post a time of 4:04.55.
Sophomore Fotini Anastasiadou (Southbury, Conn.) scored 17 points for the Falcons, highlighted by a win in the 100-yard butterfly on a time of 1:01.31 and runner-up efforts in the 50 and 200-yard freestyle events. Boyone also registered a first-place showing in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:08.89 for the visitors and added a second-place finish in the 200-yard breaststroke. Sophomore Samantha Jackson (Wallingford, Conn.) captured the 1000-yard freestyle with a mark of 11:06.29.
The Lyons return to the pool when they travel to Wellesley, Mass. to take on Wellesley College on Friday, October 30 at 5:00 p.m., while Bentley swims again on the same day when it hosts College of the Holy Cross at 4:00 p.m.
