The Lehigh women’s swimming and diving team won 11 events on Saturday to pick up a 182-117 win at Drexel in the team’s final meet before the Patriot League Championships. The squad’s second win in as many meets moves their overall record to 7-2 on the season. Courtney Patterson, Kate Bergin and Kelly Carroll each grabbed a pair of wins on the day, and Kaitlyn Ruffing notched two individual wins plus a victory on the 400 freestyle relay team.
The Lehigh men’ team came up on the short end of a 194-105 decision at Drexel on Saturday afternoon. Junior Jacob Moyar led the way with three individual wins on the afternoon for the Brown and White, while Justin White and Jamal Willis each tallied one win apiece. The trio joined with Zach Tieke to notch a win to close out the day in the 400 free relay (3:06.70). In total, Lehigh dominated the freestyle, winning four of the five events, including the 400 relay.
Cora Summerfield picked up the team’s first win of the day in the 1,000 yard freestyle pacing the field in 10:33.30. Bergin finished in 10:37.09 to help the Mountain Hawks finish one-two in the event.
Patterson followed that up with the first of her two wins on the afternoon, touching the wall first in the 200 freestyle (1:54.97). Carolyn Koch (2nd/1:55.02) and Julianne Koch (3rd/1:55.12) joined the action and helped Lehigh to a sweep in the event. Patterson later grabbed a win in the 500 free in 5:10.13, where Meghan Thompson swam a 5:14.40 race, landing her in third.
Bergin swam a 1:00.34 time in the 100 backstroke, winning the sprint and leading the Mountain Hawks to another sweep, as Julia Perry (1:01.93) and Megan Schappert (1:02.49) helped round out the top three. Bergin made it 2-for-2 on the day in the backstrokes, winning the 200 back in 2:09.97, one place better than J. Koch, who finished in second place in 2:10.70.
Carroll took the top spot in the 100 fly, touching in at 57.94 seconds, with Summerfield coming in second (59.55). Carroll was also victorious in the 200 yard IM, besting the field with a mark of 2:09.26. Carroll also finished second in the 200 fly (2:08.43), finishing runner-up to teammate Sydney Bornstein, who continued her impressive string of wins in the event with a time of 2:07.69.
Ruffing once again swept the titles in the 50 and 100 frees, winning the 50 yard sprint in 23.80 and the 100 free in 51.71 seconds. C. Koch took third in the 50 yard free (24.57) and placed second in the 100 free. Thompson rounded out the top three sweep in the 100 freestyle for Lehigh with a time of 54.83.
The women’s day in the pool concluded with a victory for the 400 freestyle ‘A’ relay team of the Courtney Ferreira, Ruffing and the Koch sisters, who paced the field in 3:34.50. Lehigh’s ‘B’ team of Thompson, Patterson, Julia Perry and Abby Thomson also scored in the event by placing third (3:40.86).
For the men, Moyar outpaced the field in both the 500 and 1,000 yard freestyles, winning the 500 free in 4:42.70 and the 1,000 in 9:44.64. He also claimed victory in the 200 butterfly with a time of 1:49.71. The time was 2.98 seconds faster than second place finisher Kyle Lukens, the Drexel record holder in the event and highest seed entering the race.
Willis claimed the top spot of the 50 freestyle, winning the event with a time of 21.03. White finished in third place, helping the Mountain Hawks earn two of the top three spots. The Dragon’s Joel Berryman, who also competed against Willis and White at the U.S. Nationals in December, finished between the duo in second place.
White topped the field of the 200 yard freestyle to capture his lone victory of the day. His time of 1:41.81 topped the field of six competitors and earned the maximum of nine team points. Tieke also scored for the Mountain Hawks with his fourth place finish of 1:46.32. White also turned in a strong second place performance in the 100 freestyle, finishing the race in 46.59.
Justin Kostelnik tallied one of the Mountain Hawks’ four runner up marks in the 200 yard backstroke, touching in 1:56.47. Tieke also grabbed a second place mark, finishing two-three with teammate Jake Hassel in the 100 yard butterfly. Hassel, Jimmy Davey and Matt Carducci each scored in the 200 yard IM, finishing in spots three-through-five, respectively.
The Mountain Hawks earned two team points from their third place, 200 medley relay team of Davey, Jake Hassel, Tieke and Willis. Connor Guilfoyle registered two points for his fourth place tally in the 100 breaststroke.
The Mountain Hawks will now have 18 days off to prepare of the Patriot League Championships in Annapolis, Maryland on Feb. 17-20.
