Wingate Invite - Day Three

The Limestone College men’s and women’s swimming teams both finished second at the Wingate University Fall Frenzy Invitational over the weekend. Wingate University won the event on the women’s and men’s side.
 
Limestone’s women’s 200-yard freestyle relay finished second with a time of 1:41.79. Renee Pouchet, Raquel Rudolph, Jenna Arington, and Nathania LaPierre all contributed in the effort. The 400-freestyle relay team of Pouchet, Marta Stepien, Ines Speranda, and Arington placed second (4:05.84). Pouchet, Stepien, Speranda, and Rudolph all pitched in for a second-place finish in the 200-medley relay (1:52.25). Freeman, Joanna Mannon, Brandy McCauley, and Alexa Stenger finished the 800-freestyle relay in 8:04.13 to win the event.
 
Isabella Nystrom took second in the 500 freestyle (5:08.15) and the 200 freestyle (2:00.29) events. She also won the 1650 freestyle (17:28.87). Stepien won the 200 individual medley (2:09.85), the 400 individual medley (4:36.77), and the 200 breaststroke (2:22.26). She went on to place second in the 100 breaststroke (1:07.95).  Rudolph finished first in the 50 free (25:03). Anna Freeman finished third in the 400 individual medley (4:48.08). Pouchet won the 100 backstroke (1:00.27).
 
Lance Maxwell, Gilles Gutnecht, Gene Magliaro, and Jason Wilson finished the 200-freestyle relay in 1:27.78 to place second.  The 200-medley relay team of Magliaro, Deniz Bilgin, Gutnecht, and Maxwell was second (1:38.61). Gutnecht, Nikolaus Thomas, Zeljko Karaman, and Blake Schaeffer swam the 800-freestyle relay in 7:15.57 to finished second. The 400-freestyle relay team recorded another second place finish with a time of 3:13.05. Members of that squad included Maxwell, Gutnecht, Magliaro, and Thomas.
 
Gutnecht took second in the 500 freestyle (4:44.30). Maxwell was fourth in the 50 freestyle (21.85) and second in the 100 butterfly (52.94). Karaman placed third in the 400 individual medley (4:21.81). Gutnecht, Maxwell, and Thomas finished second (1:44.24), third (1:46.72), and fourth (1:48.53), respectively, in the 200 freestyle.
 
Complete team results will be posted when they become available.
 
The Saints and Lady Saints will take a break until January. The teams will face Saints Leo in an exhibition meet on January 9 in Saints Leo, Fla. Limestone hosts Indiana University of Pennsylvania on January 13 in Gaffney, S.C., at 5 p.m.