Southern Connecticut Defends Northeast-10 Title

The Southern Connecticut State University men and women successfully defended their team titles Saturday at the Northeast-10 Conference championships at the Owls’ Bruce Hutchinson Natatorium.

The Owls’ women scored 933.50 points to top second-place Le Moyne, which scored 845 points. Bentley was third with 704; St. Rose placed fourth with 369.50; St. Michael’s was fifth with 276; and Pace finished sixth with 172 points.

Southern senior Stacey Mehringer was selected as the championships’ most outstanding female swimmer, winning the 200 individual medley and the 200-yard butterfly Saturday. The Owls’ Kim Grant won both the one and three-meter diving and was named the meet’s outstanding diver.

Southern set several meet records on the final day of the two-day championships, leading off with Carolynn Navarro, breaking herown NE-10 mark with a time of 17:59.46 in the 1,650-yard freestyle. Other Owls’ records were set by Grant in three-meter diving with 438.20 points; freshman Amy Browning set a record in the 100 freestyle at 54.56 seconds; and co-captain Caitlin Turnina set a NE-10 record in the 200 backstroke with a time of 2:15.02.

Freshman swimmer Denny Shupe (Berwyn, Pa.) set a conference championship record winning the 400 IM (4:15.64) in the first day of the Northeast-10 Conference Swimming and Diving Championships held at the Hutchinson Natatorium.

On the men's side, Southern scored 1,116 points. Le Moyne edged Bentley for second place, 696-659, while St. Rose placed fourth with 522 points; St. Michael’s finished fifth with a 173 total; and Pace scored 21 points for sixth place.

St. Rose junior Matt Kavanagh, who won the 200-yard individual medley and the 100-yard freestyle Saturday, was the meet’s most outstanding male swimmer. Southern junior John Wood was the meet’s outstanding diver, winning on both the one- and three-meter boards.

Co-captain Mike Ferraro set a NE-10 record in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:15.65.