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MIT Rolling at NEWMAC's

MIT won four of five events on Friday to take over the lead at the 2015 New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Swimming and Diving Championships hosted by WPI at the Sports & Recreation Center Pool.
 
Cambridge’s Engineers totaled 511 points followed by the host Engineers with 356. U.S. Coast Guard Academy is third with 314 and Springfield College is fourth (277). Wheaton College rounds out the top five with 231 points. Babson College (174) is sixth and Clark University (134) is seventh.
 
The 200-yard freestyle relay was an inverse of last year with MIT breaking the meet and pool record, while achieving a B cut and a time that would have garnered an invitation to last year’s NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships. The WPI entry of Ben List, Nathan Hughes, David Smallwood and Andrew Bauer also came in under the B cut and pool record time.
 
The 400-yard medley relay was the same order as last year with MIT defeating WPI to close out Friday’s action. MIT’s Alexander Lednev, Justin Chiu, Sean Corcoran and Austin Fathman  and WPI’s Alex Powers, Tim Petri, David Smallwood and Ben List turned in times that would have made the 2014 NCAA field with a 3:20.81 and 3:21.61, respectively.
 
MIT claimed the first five spots in the 500-yard freestyle led by Scott Mayberry with a B cut time of 4:33.70. Parker Greene (4:37.53), Thomas Norris (4:38.46), Michael Lu (4:39.54) and John Matthews (4:39.93) followed for Cambridge’s Engineers.
 
The top two spots in the 200-yard IM went the same way as in 2014 with Lednev first with a B cut time of 1:52.44 followed by Springfield’s Michael Normoyle in second (1:53.38).
 
Coast Guard’s Brindamour repeated as the 50-yard freestyle champion with a 20.25 as WPI’s Andrew Bauer clocked in at 20.83 to place second.


The MIT women extended their lead after the first full day of action at the 2015 New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Swimming and Diving Championships hosted by WPI at the Sports & Recreation Center Pool.
 
The Engineers captured both relays and swept the top two spots in a pair of individual events to end Friday with 497 points. Springfield College (303) and Wellesley College (286) jumped over WPI (258) while Wheaton College (207) sits fifth. U.S. Coast Guard Academy (200.5) is sixth as Smith College (181) is seventh, Mount Holyoke College (164.5) is eighth, Clark University (138) is ninth and Babson College (91) is 10th.
 
Sarah Osmulski, Amanda Wu, Michelle Cunningham and Lena Yang swam a 1:34.92 to win the 200-yard freestyle relay. The time was a 2015 NCAA B cut and would have qualified for last year’s NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships. Wheaton’s quartet of Jenna Hayden, Charlotte Pitts, Courtney Leach and Kelsey Meyer came in second with a time of 1:36.66. Veronika Jedryka, Jessica Chen, Margaret Guo and Emmie Ryan closed the women’s portion of the night with a B cut in the 400-yard medley relay (3:51.13) as Springfield’s Callie Phillips, Emily Medeiros, Christiana Greco and Delaney Dyjak clocked a 3:54.49 to take second.
 
Wu (23.73) and Jedryka (23.79) went 1-2 in the 50-yard freestyle while Mary Theilking (5:01.14) and Ryan (5:00.20) did the same in the 500-yard freestyle. All four achieved B cuts in addition to Phillips third-place 5:01.59 in the distance event. The 200-yard IM was won by Mount Holyoke’s Cathleen Pruden with a B cut and 2014 entry time of 2:05.41. She was followed by MIT’s Joanna Han with a B cur of her own (2:06.93).
 
Wellesley’s Maura Sticco-Ivins led the way with a 500.50 with Smith’s Anna Partridge amassing 467.45 points to claim second place.
 
Tomorrow’s action includes the 400-yard IM, 100-yard butterfly, 200-yard freestyle, 100-yard breaststroke, 100-yard backstroke and 200-yard medley relay.

 

WPI Men

The fastest event of Day 2 at the NEWMAC Championship meet was also the best individually for the host men’s swimming and diving team as sophomore Andrew Bauer (Cumberland, RI) and senior Ben List (Bedford, MA) finished second and third in the 50-yard freestyle. Bauer’s time of 20.83 met the NCAA-B standard, while List (20.89) came in just after.
 
Including the ‘B’ final, the WPI men picked up 57 points from four different swimmers in the 50 free, helping the hosts maintain their spot in second place (356 points) out of seven teams.
 
David Smallwood (Bangor, ME) contributed with a second-place finish in the 50 free ‘B’ final (21.42), while Jonathan Decelle (Rumson, NJ) came in two places behind him (21.59).
 
Bauer, List, Smallwood and Nathan Hughes (Arlington, VA) joined forces early in Friday’s night session to take second place in the 200-yard freestyle relay. Their time of 1:22.83 gave Bauer a second NCAA-B cut time — and he earned it with a blazing 20-second anchor leg.
 
The 200 free team also broke a school record set at last year’s NEWMAC Championships.
 
The Engineers’ finished second in the ‘B’ final — the 6th-fastest time overall — as a team of Karim Elsayed (Cairo, Egypt), Decelle, Andrew Kelleher (Poughquag, NY) and Frederick Burgwardt (Mendon, NY) combined to finish in 1:25.15 as the two 200 free relay teams combined for 60 points.
 
The WPI men’s strong relay form continued in the 400-yard medley, grabbing second place (3:12.61) with a group of Smallwood, List, Alex Powers (Glocester, RI) and  Tim Petri (Eksjo, Sweden). WPI finished second to MIT in the ‘A’ and ‘B’ finals, but the home side posted the fourth-fastest time overall (3:25.19) with a team of Bauer, Burgwardt, Elsayed and Kelleher.
 
Seth MacDonald (Sherill, NY) impressed in the 200 individual medley, coming in third in 1:53.70. Powers also made the ‘A’ final (10th, 1:58.02). Adam McNally (Leominster, MA) (1:57.18), Kelleher (1:57.59) and Petri (1:57.69) finished back-to-back in the ‘B’ final to combine for another 18 points.
 
WPI fielded four swimmers in the 500-yard freestyle ‘B’ final, led by heat winner Nick Houghton (4:45.36). James Macfarlane (Ijamsville, MD) came in 14th with in 4:47.87, while Craig Barrett (Edinburgh, Scotland) (15th, 4:48.84) and Shane Bell (LaCanada, CA) (20th, 4:58.13) both scored.
 
The WPI men enter Day 3 of the NEWMAC Championship meet trailing first-place MIT (511 points), but also hold a sizable lead over Coast Guard (314 points) in third place.

 

WPI Women

Veronica Nikolaki (Athens, Greece) highlighted a strong day for the WPI Women’s Swimming and Diving team on Day 2 of the NEWMAC Championship meet as the tournament hosts stayed competitive with six top 10 finishes in six events.
 
Nikolaki was the top individual performer, grabbing fourth place in the 3-meter dive with 437.65 points.
 
The Crimson and Gray finished the day with 258 points, slotting them into fourth place out of 10 teams. Defending champion MIT holds a sizable lead (497 points), but WPI isn’t far behind second-place Springfield (303) and Wellesley (286).
 
Freshmen Jenny Day (Chelmsford, MA) and Emily Matsco (Windham, NH) finished back-to-back in the 500-yard freestyle, with Day taking sixth place (5:08.92) and Matsco finishing seventh (5:09.10). Eva Childers (Henniker, NH) won the ‘B’ final with a time of 5:16.81, while Thea Reymann (Seaside Park, NJ) also scored in the event, coming in 20th (5:26.86).
 
Emily Martin (Penfield, NY) had WPI’s final solo top 10 performance, securing seventh place in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:10.95.
 
The hosts kept their momentum going in the relays, touching fourth in the 200-yard freestyle relay (1:37.96) with a squad of Nysa Casha (Andover, MA), Tori Claverie (Derry, NH), Day and Martin. They scraped up a few more points in the ‘B’ final, taking fourth (1:41.72) in that race as well with a group comprised of Julia Bushell (Windham, NH), Childers, Matsco and Amanda Konieczny (West Springfield, MA).
 
WPI came in fifth in the 400-yard medley relay, posting a time of 4:02.61 with a team of Marissa Patterson (Hampton, NH), Zoe Eggleston (Newtown, CT), Casha and Matsco. The Engineers again gained significant points from their ‘B’ team as well, placing third in that heat with a time of 4:03.59. WPI used a 400 medley relay ‘B’ team of Bushell, Day, Konieczny and Allysa Grant (Framingham, MA), 
 
The Crimson and Gray added just under 200 points to their team total on Friday, with 52 points coming in each of the relay events.
 
Claverie was WPI’s top finisher in the 50-yard freestyle, coming in 17th place (25.14) out of 59 competitors — including Friday morning’s preliminaries — to gain four points for the home side. 
 
Freshman Hayley Poskus (Middleboro, MA) scooped up six points with a score of 306.95 points in the preliminary round of the 3-meter dive.
 
Trials will resume at 10am tomorrow morning, while the finals get under way at 6pm.

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