Results
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Freshman
Carissa Risucci broke a pair of school records Sunday to lead host Nazareth to a 170-121 victory over Hartwick in women's swimming and diving. Hartwick defeated Nazareth in the men's meet, 170-109, but the Golden Flyers set records in two relays.
Risucci broke both breaststroke records as Nazareth improved to 6-0 in dual meets. She won the 100-meter breaststroke in 1:16.27, bettering the time of 1:16.34 turned in by Aubrey Kirchoff in 2006. She later shaved more than five secondds off the record in the 200-meter breaststroke with a winning time of 2:44.22, better than the 2:49.64 by LeMoyne's Nicole Murphy in 2008.
Nazareth also broke its own pool record in the 200-meter freestyle relay with a time of 1:54.34. Freshman
McKenna Murphy also won two individual events for the Golden Flyers and swam on the winning relay. She won the 200 fly (2:34.08) and the 400 free (4:46.14). She also teamed with
Jaclyn Conklin,
Rachael Phipps and
Holly Gilligan in the relay to break the record of 1:55.08 set last year.
Seniors
Lindsey Buzard and
Lauren McKinney also won two events each. Buzard won both diving events, taking the 1-meter with a score of 221.01 and the 3-meter with 271.05. McKinney won the 100 fly (1:07.33) and the 200 IM (2:29.94).
Other winners were Conklin in the 200 freestyle (2:15.65) and Phipps in the 100 freestyle (1:01.96).
In the men's meet, Nazareth's foursome of
R.C. Weston,
Mike Bidwell,
Jacob Kline and
Rob Wortel broke both relay records. The led off the meet by winning the 200-meter medley relay in a time of 1:52.17, breaking the pool record of 1:52.35 set by LeMoyne in 2007.
The meet ended with the same foursome breaking the 200-meter freestyle relay record with a winning time of 1:41.11, breaking the school record that stood since 1998 and the pool record held by RIT since 2002.
Kline, a freshman, also won two other events. He captured the 50-meter freestyle in :25.26 and the 100-meter butterfly in 1:00.32. Wortel won the 100-meter freestyle in :57.10 as he touched out Hartwick's Lydon Schultz, who swam :57.15. Weston finished first in the 200-meter backstroke in 2:17.99.
Hartwick's Michael Phillips also broke two pool records, including one that stood for 28 years. His time of 2:29.65 in the 200-meter breaststroke was slightly better than the 2:29.91 turned in by Alfred's Howard Seidman in 1982. He also broke the record in the 200-meter IM with a time of 2:14.23.