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Pacific (ore.) Starts Fifth at Northwest Conference Meet

School record performances from the Pacific men's and women's swimming teams and a fourth-straight Northwest Conference title in the 50-yard freestyle for Katie Porter highlight Pacific's opening day at the 2015 NWC Swimming Championships held inside of the Osborn Aquatic Center on Friday.
 
The Boxers continue the three-day event on Saturday with a scheduled 9 a.m. start for the preliminary session.
 
Women's Swimming: 5th Place After Day One (99 Team Points)
Porter (Sr., McMinnville, Ore.) capped off Pacific's day in Corvallis with her fourth-straight Northwest Conference Championship in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 23.76.
 
Porter opened the day in the 50-yard freestyle with a 23.89 second place finish in the preliminaries, a time that would fall within the NCAA Division III B Cut guidelines.
 
The finals saw Porter improve her B-qualifying time as she finished ahead of Whitman's Tai Hallstein to earn her fourth conference title in the 50-yard freestyle and sixth conference title of her career.
 
The opening event of finals came in the 200-yard freestyle relay where Pacific finished third behind Pacific Lutheran and Whitman with a school-record time. The Boxers' relay squad of Porter, Amanda Clark (Sr., Olympia, Wash.), Rachel Webster (So., Normandy Park, Wash.) and Amber Chase (Sr., Tigard, Ore.) posted a time of 1:37.31 in the event.
 
Clark earned All-Northwest Conference First Team honors in the 200-yard freestyle relay, as well as individually in the 500-yard freestyle. After breaking her own school-record with a preliminary time of 5:02.86, Clark finished third in the finals with a 5:04.96.
 
Webster reached the B-Final in the 200-yard individual medley after a 13th-place finish in the preliminaries. Webster posted a time of 2:15.20 in the finals for an overall finish of 12th-place.
 
Pacific's day was finished at the conclusion of the 400-yard medley relay, which saw Janae Sargent (Jr., Redding, Calif.), Webster, Porter and Chase finish sixth with a time of 4:04.32.
 
Men's Swimming: 5th Place After Day One (78 Team Points)
A school-record relay time and an impressive day in the 500-yard freestyle relay highlight the Pacific men's team in the conference championships as the Boxers finished the opening day fifth in the NWC.
 
The Pacific men opened Friday evening's finals session with a school-record time in the 200-yard freestyle relay, as Jack Lloyd (Jr., Portland, Ore.), Spencer Chandler (Sr., Weiser, Idaho), Patrick Daniels (So., Salem, Ore.) and Raymond Miller (Fr., Portland, Ore.) recorded a time of 1:26.99 in a fifth place finish.
 
Pacific's day in the 500-yard freestyle started when Charles Morse (So., Forest Grove, Ore.) broke his own school-record before having the new-mark bested by Miller in the very next preliminary heat.
 
Miller's new school-record did not make it through the entire day, as the freshman shaved over a second off of his time in the finals with a 4:44.82-mark and a sixth place finish to earn All-Northwest Conference Second Team honors.
 
Morse finished 15th in the conference during the finals session of the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:54.90.
 
The Boxers' second individual event for the finals came in the 50-yare freestyle as Lloyd posted a time of 21.73 in a sixth-place finish to earn second team All-NWC laurels.
 
Pacific concluded the day with an eighth place finish in the 400-yard medley relay with a time of 3:40.96.

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