NORTON, Mass. – First year Maya Moores (Gorham, Maine) won a pair of events to lead the Wheaton College (Mass.) women's swimming & diving team today in a double dual meet with visiting Springfield College and United States Coast Guard Academy at Balfour Natatorium on the Wheaton campus in Norton, Mass.
The Lyons fell to Coast Guard, 202-83, and were defeated by Springfield, 186-110. Coast Guard topped Springfield, 184-111. Wheaton is now 1-4 on the season, while Coast Guard improves to 6-0. Springfield is now 1-4 as well.
Coast Guard won 10 events, while Springfield captured four and Wheaton won a pair.
The Lyons shined in the breaststroke events, led by Moores, who ruled both the 100-yard and 200-yard events. The rookie posted a winning time of 1:09.78 in the 100 and captured the 200-yard race after touching the wall with a mark of 2:33.77. Classmate Saturn Cogan (Saratoga, N.Y.) was the runner-up in both events, placing second in the 100-yard breaststroke with a clip of 1:10.08, before placing second in the 200-yard event with a mark of 2:37.44.
Senior Anna St. Jean (Alexandria, Va.) placed second to both Coast Guard and Springfield in the 100-yard freestyle for Wheaton with a time of 55.70 and defeated Springfield, while placing fourth overall in the 50-yard freestyle with a clip of 25.57. Sophomore Lauren Bullins (Lenexa, Kan.) topped Springfield in the 1000-yard freestyle and placed third overall with a time of 11:39.08, while first year Annika Marshall (Blue Hill, Maine) was the runner up to Springfield and fourth overall in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 1:07.39.
Senior Kaleigh Morton (Milford, Mass.) placed second to Springfield in the 200-yard butterfly and 200-yard backstroke events, while finishing second to Coast Guard in the 100-yard butterfly. Her time of 1:03.50 in the 100 fly was second overall in the meet. Sophomore Ella Kent (Framingham, Mass.) led the Lyons in diving with a score of 161.26 on the one meter board and a tally of 173.45 on the three-meter board to place second to Coast Guard on both boards.
Coast Guard won both the relays to open and close the meet. Junior Samantha Halvorson (Chesapeake, Va.) opened the 400-yard medley relay with the backstroke and senior Tessa Breitbart (Roseville, Calif.) swam the breaststroke. First year Maggie Erwin (San Antonio, Texas) had the next 100 yards in the butterfly, before senior Kathleen O'Shea (Decatur, Ga.) swam the freestyle anchor for a time of 4:04.84. The Bears quartet of O'Shea, sophomore Eleanor Murphy (McLean, Va.), sophomore Julia Thomas (Chandler, Ariz.) and Halvorson combined on a winning time of 3:45.00 to win the 400-yard freestyle relay as well.
First year Quinn Putchinski (Rockwall, Texas) won both distance events for Coast Guard, clocking in at 10:56.53 in the 1000-yard freestyle and 5:19.65 in the 500-yard freestyle. Erwin also won a pair of events for the Bears with a time of 2:10.50 in the 200-yard backstroke and 2:15.49 in the 200-yard individual medley. Halvorson was the top swimmer in the 100-yard backstroke behind a time of 59.32 and the 100-yard freestyle on a mark of 54.67. Senior Megan Doubrava (Aurora, Colo.) touched first in the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 2:15.20 for Coast Guard and O'Shea outpaced the field in the 50-yard freestyle with a 25.25 clip.
Sophomore Lena Thompson (Bow, N.H.) led the Springfield swimmers with a pair of wins. She was the fastest in the field in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 2:00.10 and the 100-yard butterfly, touching the wall at 1:00.30. Senior Bridgette Hogan (Marshfield, Mass.) was the class of the divers for the Pride, winning on the one-meter board with a score of 234.15 points and on the three-meter board with a mark of 242.35 points.
Wheaton returns to the pool on Friday, November 20 when it hosts the first day of the Chuck Nugent Invitational at 10:00 a.m., while Springfield hosts Skidmore College on November 14 at 12:00 p.m. and Coast Guard heads to Wellesley, Mass. on November 12 to swim Wellesley College at 6:00 p.m.
