Minnesota State Sweeps Gustavus Adolphus

The Minnesota State women's swimming and diving team opened the home portion of its 2009-10 campaign with a 141-98 over Gustavus Adolphus Friday evening.

The Mavericks finished with 10first-place finishes in the dual and recorded 30 \top-five finishes.

In the relays, Minnesota State finished first and second in the 200-yard medley relay.  The "A" team finished first touching in 1:49.87.  That team consisted of junior Angela Krych, sophomore Kaitlin Ogden, sophomore Emily Timm and junior Kim Christensen.  The "B" team, which touched in 1:56.46, was made up of junior BrieAnna Simon, junior Adrienne Vida, freshman Tabby Temperley and sophomore Jessy Stanton.  MSU also finished second in the 200-yard freestyle relay with a time of 1:46.25.  That relay team was made up of sophomore Stefanie Edwards, freshman Alyssa Kuffel, junior Anna Proell and junior Kristin Hayes.

Individually, freshman Marissa Reeve won the 1,000-yard freestyle with a time of 10:49.6  In the race, Reeve turned in her second faster split time in the final leg of the race with a time of :31.56.   Hayes won the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:58.97, while Krych won the 50-yard freestyle in :25.07.  Krych also won the 100-yard freestyle in :54.17.  Timm was the winner in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:17.14 and she also won the 100-yard butterfly in 1:01.20.  Junior Claire Bergman won the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:10.86 to round out the swimming individual winners.  On the diving board, junior Janel Duffy won the one-meter and three-meter dives with scores of 223.20 and 210.55 respectively.

Also earning top-five finishes were: Freshman Kelsea Smith (fourth, 1,000-yard freestyle 11:35.92), freshman Sarah Iannacone (fifth, 1,000-yard freestyle, 11:36.54), Edwards (third, 200-yard freestyle, 2:02.53), senior Ana Arnold (fourth, 200-yard freestyle, 2:04.47) and junior Anna Proell (fifth, 200-yard freestyle, 2:05.48), junior Chelsea Chapman (second, 50-yard freestyle, :25.13), Christensen (third, 50-yard freestyle, :25.33), Ogden (fifth, 50-yard freestyle, :25.53), Temperley (second, 200-yard individual medley, 2:18.63; third, 100-yard butterfly, 1:04.28), Kuffel (third, 200-yard individual medley, 2:21.53), Simon (fifth, 200-yard individual medley, 2:21.69), Vida (second, 100-yard backstroke, 1:04.11), Reeve (second, 500-yard freestyle, 5:19.46), sophomore Beth Keskey (third, one-meter dive, 177.35; second, three-meter dive, 189.45).

Minnesota State (1-1) travels to the annual Border Battle next weekend hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.  The meet features UWSP, South Dakota and the University of Milwaukee along with MSU.

The Minnesota State 200-yard freestyle relay team tapped the wall two one-hundreths of a second faster than the Gustavus Adolphus relay team in the evenings final race, securing a dramatic 119-117 victory for Minnesota State.

The relay team, which is made up of sophomore Daniel Wright, freshman Keaton Brown, junior Chris Gogel and junior Jacob Longacre finished the race in 1:31.14, just ahead of GAC's squad which finished in 1:31.16.  The Mavericks entered the final leg of the race trailing by three tenths of a second.  Longacre swam a :22.42 in the final leg turn the deficit into a victory.

In the other relays of the night, MSU won the 200-yard medley relay with a time of 1:38.66.  That relay team was made up of freshman Kyle Hellyer, senior Brian Parks, sophomore Matt Chida and freshman Tom Gasnick.  The Mavericks also finished third in the race with a time of 1:43.38.  That relay team was made up of Longacre, freshman Shane Bjork, Wright and freshman Brody Heggerston.  In the 200-yard freestyle, the relay team of sophomore Dan Felt, junior John Powers, freshman Sam Heidelk and freshman Paul Creger finished fourth in 1:35.89.

Individually, Parks won the 50-yard freestyle and the 100-yard breaststroke.  In the 50, Parks touched in :22.22, while he  touched in 1:00.29 in the breaststroke.  Sophomore Matt Chida won the 200-yard individual medley in 2:01.01, while Gasnick won the 100-yard freestyle with a time of :48.7.

Other Mavericks finishing in the top-five included:  senior Jose Rosales (third, 1,000-yard freestyle, 10:43.36; fourth, 100-yard butterfly, :56.75; third, 500-yard freestyle, 5:10.02), junior John Powers (fourth, 1,000-yard freestyle, 10:49.15; fourth, 500-yard freestyle, 5:11.13), Gasnick (second, 200-yard freestyle, 1:46.71), Brown (third, 200-yard freestyle, 1:49.10; third, 100-yard backstroke, :57.32), Hellyer, fourth, 200-yard freestyle, 1:51.98; second, 100-yard backstroke, :56.90), Heggerton (second, 50-yard freestyle, :22.91; 100-yard freestyle, :50.73), sophomore Dan Felt (fifth, 50-yard freestyle, :23.41; second one-meter dive, 150.05), Gogel (fifth, 200-yard individual medley, 2:08.80; third, 100-yard breaststroke, 1:04.14), Chida (second, 100-yard butterfly, :53.31), Wright (third, 100-yard butterfly, :53.31),  Bjork (fifth, 100-yard breaststroke, 1:07.06) and freshman Tyler Jaeger (second, three-meter dive, 120.15).

Minnesota State (1-1) travels to the annual Border Battle next weekend hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.  The meet features UWSP, South Dakota and the University of Milwaukee along with MSU.