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February 5, 2011
New Haven, Conn. – Southern Connecticut State University picked up right where they left off Friday on Day Two of the Northeast-10 Conference Swimming and Diving Championship by winning the women's 200 yard medley relay. The team of Amanda Thomas (26.89), Jennifer O'Neill (29.76), Anna Pleban (26.35), and Nicole Huerta (24.91) followed up their impressive victory in Friday's 400 medley relay with another gold medal performance. The Owls winning time was 1:47.91 followed by Bentley University and Pace University.
In the Men's 200 Medley Relay, Le Moyne College captured their second relay of the meet, winning in 1:36.37 with Adelphi University second (1:36.96), and The College of Saint Rose third (1:37.0,5). For the winning Dolphins, Drew Acquaviva (24.18), James Walker (27.91), Sean Hosford (23.00) and Tyler Olson (21.38) claimed first place with Hosford's fly leg the difference as he had the fastest leg by over half a second on the next quickest butterflyer in the heat.
In the Women's 400 Individual Medley, So. Connecticut's Amanda Thomas set her third NE-10 record of the meet with an NCAA "A" Standard of 4:20.76, destroying the old NE-10 record by almost ten seconds. Saint Rose's Caitlin Brauer was second in 4:31.73, followed by Monique Haney of Assumption College in 4:34.61. Thomas' splits were an impressive 57.09-1:05.89-1:15.94-1:01.84.
In the Men's 400 IM, Saint Rose's Vadim Yafayev (pictured above) broke his own NE-10 record, and successfully defended his championship in winning in an NCAA "B" Standard of 4:01.34. Yafayev has won both IM's for two straight years. So. Connecticut's Austin Mizell (4:13.71) was second, with Le Moyne's Scott Thieke (4:22.12) third. Yafayev's splits in winning his 4th NE-10 championship in two years were 53.49-1:00.84-1:09.69-57.33
The women's 100 butterfly saw Bentley get into the win column as Anne Kaduboski captured the title in 57.12 setting a new NE-10 record with the victory. Kaitlyn Lynch of Pace, who was the top qualifier in the preliminaries, finished second in 57.78 with her teammate Georgie Goulding finishing 3rd in 58.31.
Pace's Kevin Dickson captured the men's 100 yard butterfly in 51.75 with Corey McKee of Adelphi second in 51.80, and Egen Ouellette of Bentley finishing third in 52.75. Dickson's win was the first ever gold medal earned by the Setters in NE-10 Swimming. It also marked the first event of the meet a So. Connecticut swimmer did not medal.
Caitlin Peterson of Saint Rose jumped out to an early lead, and captured the women's 200 yard freestyle in 1:54.83 for her first career NE-10 title. Eileen Mulowney of Saint Michael's College was second in 1:55.42, and Sarah Salanger was third in 1:56.67.
While Pace's Kevin Dickson became his school's first ever champion, Michael Fridman was waiting in the ready room for the 200 free. Inspired by his teammates win, Fridman gave Pace back to back wins in winning the 200 freestyle in 1:41.93. So. Connecticut's Matt Sorena was second in 1:43.51, with Kyle Wilson of Saint Rose finishing 3rd in 1:45.06.
So. Connecticut's Jennifer O'Neill successfully defended her title in the 100 breaststroke, winning in 1:05.41, taking the lead from the outset and holding off Bentley's Jessica Hodsdon who finished in 1:05.63, and Saint Rose's Naomi Woodcock (1:06.49) was third.
In the men's 100 breaststroke, So. Connecticut's Austin Mizell captured the gold, breaking the NE-10 record with a new standard of 57.40. Saint Rose's Ryan Brauer was 2nd in 58.85, with Steven Gomling of Adelphi finishing 3rd in 59.58.
The backstrokes saw Le Moyne's Katie O'Donnell capture the women's 100 back in a winning time of 57.45, with Pace's Kaitlyn Lynch finishing second in 37.52 just .07 behind O'Donnell. So. Connecticut's Sarah Thompson finished third with a time of 58.30, in one of the closer events of the championship.
The men's race saw Le Moyne's Drew Acquaviva narrowly miss his own conference record by .07 as he won the gold in 50.79. Miguel Nesrala of So. Connecticut was second in 51.17, with Corey McKee of Adelphi finishing third in 52.97.
In the Men's one meter diving, Chad Snyder of So. Connecticut, captured his second championship of the meet with a score of 428.60. Bentley claimed the other two spots on the awards stand with a second and third place finish. Jon Andrews (410.80) and Michael Walsh (366.35) grabbed the medals for the Falcons.
The evening concluded with the 800 freestyle relays with So. Connecticut capturing the women's race and Saint Rose the men's contest. In the ladies event, the Owls finished first in 7:52.17, with the team of Megan Fay (1:58.52), Kayla Wainwright (1:57.51), Caitlin Salter (1:58.53), and Nicole Huerta (1:57.61) capturing the event. Le Moyne was 2nd in 8:00.35, just edging Saint Rose by .11 as the Golden Knights finished in 8:00.46, despite 200 free champion Caitlin Peterson's closing split of 1:55.74, the fastest split in the event.
In the men's race Saint Rose and Pace battled over the final 400 yards with the Golden Knights getting the victory in 7:00.72. Pace held second in 7:02.06, and So. Connecticut took third in 7:07.30. Ryan Brauer lead off in 1:45.56, Vadim Yafayev split 1:44.35, Joe Krok 1:47.08, and freshman Kyle Wilson's 1:43.73 the fastest split in the race.
With the meet concluding tomorrow evening, the So. Connecticut men are looking to win their seventh title in the last eight years and bounce back after losing the championship to Bentley last season. So Connecticut has 593 points to lead the men's competition followed by Bentley (401),Saint Rose (380) LeMoyne (376), Pace (305), Adelphi (253) and Saint Michaels (159).
In the women's competition So. Connecticut remains a clear leader with 681 points, Bentley is second with 420, followed by Saint Rose (337), Le Moyne (330), Assumption (288), Pace (286), Saint Michael's (164), and Adelphi (104). With a win this weekend, So. Connecticut would claim their eighth consecutive title.
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