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Pacific (Ore.) Wraps Up Action at Northwest Conference Championships

Jack Lloyd (Jr., Portland, Ore.) was Pacific's top men's finisher on Sunday evening with a second place finish in the 100-yard freestyle to earn All-NWC First Team honors as the Boxers finished the three-day 2015 Northwest Conference Swimming Championships at the Osborn Aquatic Center.

Multiple school records fell in the prelims and finals on Sunday, as the Boxer men placed seventh at the conference championships.

Lloyd bettered his own school record during the finals with a time of 46.59 in the final heat. The Pacific junior sat in fourth after the first lap, only to post the second fastest time over the final 50 yards to pick up a second place finish.
 
While Lloyd was the top finisher for Pacific on Sunday, it was Charles Morse (So., Forest Grove, Ore.) who earned the first points of the day for the Boxers.
 
Morse, who swam his 1,650-yard freestyle heat during the morning session, finished roughly a second short of his won school record with a time of 16:42.03 and was fast enough to place sixth in the event.
 
Pacific placed a pair of freshmen in the 200-yard butterfly finals where Raymond Miller (Fr., Portland, Ore.) finished less than a second shy of a Pacific record with a finishing time of 1:54.44.
 
In his first final heat of his collegiate career, Michael Sakai (Fr., Honolulu, Hawaii) notched a time of 1:58.69. Miller and Sakai placed sixth and eighth, respectively, in the 200-yard butterfly finals.
 
Lloyd and Morse highlighted Pacific's final evening of the NWC Swimming Championships individually, but the 400-yard freestyle relay's fifth place finish featured a school record time that left the previous record in its wake.
 
Miller, Derek Dunn (Fr., Springfield, Ore.), Patrick Daniels (So., Salem, Ore.) and Lloyd utilized the third fastest anchor leg of the event to break the Pacific school record by over six seconds. The Boxers relay group finished its heat with a 3:10.66 mark.
 
Morse competed in the consolation finals of the 200-yard butterfly and finished eighth with a time of 2:01.77.
 
Whitman earned the 2015 NWC Men's Swimming Championship team title with a team score of 697.5, while head coach Jennifer Blomme was named Men's Coach of the Year. Whitworth's Wesley Walton and Whitman's Karl Mering were named Co-Swimmers of the Year.

 

Allison Clark won her second-straight and third overall 1,650-yard freestyle conference title on Sunday evening as the Boxers finished the three-day 2015 Northwest Conference Swimming Championships at the Osborn Aquatic Center.

Multiple school records fell in the prelims and finals on Sunday, as the Boxer women finished fifth in the team standings.
 
Katie Porter (Sr., McMinnville, Ore.) and Amanda Clark (Sr., Olympia, Wash.) hold NCAA Division III B-Cut Qualifying Times and will now await the selection process for the 2015 NCAA Division III Swimming Championships, to be held in Shenandoah, Texas from March 18-21.
 
Porter holds B-Cut Times in the 50-yard freestyle (23.76) and the 100-yard butterfly (56.64), while Clark earned a B-Cut Time in the 1,650-yard freestyle with a 17:16.03 mark.

Seeded directly into the evening finals of the 1,650-yard freestyle, Clark and Pacific Lutheran's Erica Muller traded leads over the opening two laps before Clark took a lead that she would not relinquish.
 
Clark entered the race as a two-time conference champion in the event and held the school record with a time of 17:16.72, before cruising into the wall on the final length of the pool on Sunday with a 17:16.03, bettering her own school record.
 
The 1,650-yard freestyle title for Clark is her fifth overall conference title, while her B-Cut Time gives her an opportunity to bookend her career with NCAA Championship appearances.
 
After Clark secured 20-team points for Pacific, the Boxer women added 16 additional points from Porter's performance in the 100-yard freestyle.
 
Porter added to her impressive weekend in Corvallis on Sunday evening with a 52.37 finish to place third and earn All-NWC First Team laurels in the 100-yard freestyle.
 
A Pacific women's swimming record was shattered later in the evening session by Rachel Webster (So., Normandy Park, Wash.) as the previous school record of 2:14.01 in the 200-yard butterfly was bettered by over a second as Webster finished fourth at 2:12.75.

Webster's fourth lap of the event, at 34.40, was the third fastest in the finals and allowed her to finish fourth in the heat after sitting in seventh at the halfway mark of the race.
 
Webster's fourth place finish secured All-NWC Second Team honors for the sophomore.
 
Pacific finished the finals with a fourth place finish in the 400-yard freestyle relay with a time of 3:37.73 for the group of Stacie Struble (Sr., Albany, Ore.), Webster, Clark and Porter.
 
The consolation finals on Sunday evening saw Janae Sargent () finish eighth in the 200-yard backstroke at 2:24.42, while Kayla Knock (Fr., Colorado Springs, Colo.) posted a 2:38.70 seventh-place finish in the 200-yard breaststroke consolation heat.
 
Struble and Eli Cruz (Fr., Castro Valley, Calif.) finished fourth and seventh, respectively in the 200-yard butterfly consolation heat.
 
Pacific Lutheran secured the conference title as a team on Sunday with a team score of 779. Jacqueline Beal of Whitworth earned 2015 NWC Swimmer of the Year, while PLU's Matt Sellman was named Women's Coach of the Year.

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