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.: Holmes, Sackett, Lawler, Houghton Grab Weekly America East Honors

BOSTON , November 8th, 2005

Binghamton University’s David Holmes and Meghan Sackett have been named the Men’s and Women’s Swimming Performers of the Week, respectively, while Boston University’s Brian Lawler and Ashley Houghton have been named the Men’s and Women’s Diving Performers of the Week, respectively. The awards were announced Tuesday.

Holmes swam the final leg of 400 free relay that was the deciding race in the Bearcats’ 123-120 win over defending America East Champion UMBC on Saturday. In that race, Holmes swam the last leg approximately a second and a half faster than his next quickest competitor to touch the wall in 3:11.73 for the victory in the race and meet. He also won the 200 free in 1:40.43. Another critical moment in the Bearcats upset was in the 200 fly, when Holmes touched the wall in 1:52.68, four thousands of a second faster than UMBC’s Geza Szabo. Had he not won that event than Binghamton would not have been in the position to win the meet. Binghamton men’s team improved to 4-0 overall and 2-0 against conference foes after defeating two-time defending America East Champion UMBC for the first time.

Sackett shattered UMBC’s 16-year-old 1,000-free record at Seton Hall by nearly 12 seconds with a time of 10:04.92, defeating her closest competition by nearly 30 seconds. Sackett also won the 500-free at Seton Hall and the 200-free at Binghamton. She has won every individual event in which she has competed this season, for a total of 11 individual victories.

Lawler broke a pair of school records this weekend in Boston U.’s 149-69 win over UNH. He had a score of 337.80 in the one-meter diving event. He bested teammate Alex Caesar by 132 points. In the three-meter event, Lawler scored a terrific 382.05, 178 points better than Caesar. Lawler scored 18 team points for the Terriers to aid in their rout of the Wildcats. Lawler’s one-meter performance broke the school record held by Greg Voloshin, who scored 324.60 in 2000. His three-meter performance broke Mark Graham’s mark of 352.35, set in 1980.

Houghton swept the diving events at both Binghamton and Seton Hall this weekend with a score of 279.75 on the three-meter and 264.90 on the one-meter dive. She has won both diving events at all five of UMBC’s dual meets this season, and she has qualified for NCAA’s.


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