McKenna Murphy

Women's Swimming & Diving

Nazareth second at Don Richards meet

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ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Nazareth's 400-yard freestyle relay team of Rachael Phipps, Lauren McKinney, McKenna Murphy ad Jaclyn Conklin turned in a first-place finish Sunday during the final day of competition at the Don Richards Memorial Invitational at RIT.

The first-place finish, achieved by a fraction of a second over Ithaca, helped Nazareth maintain a second-place finish in the team standings. The Golden Flyers finished with 852 points during the three-day event. Ithaca finished first with 933.

Phipps also finished fourth for Nazareth Dunsay in the 50-yard freestyle (:25.33), while McKinney, Carissa Risucci and Murphy finished 2-4-5 in the 200-yard IM. McKinney posted a time of 2:12.35.

In the men's competition, Nazareth got a fourth-place finish from its 400-yard medley relay team of #R.C. Weston#, Jacob Kline, Dan Walton and Rob Wortel. Their time of 3:16.86 was more than 16 seconds faster than their previous best this year.

Other top performers were Wortel, who was eighth in the 50 freestyle (:22.31) and freshman Mike Bidwell, who was sixth in the 200 IM (2:07.72).
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