Oct. 23, 2009
MEN'S SWIMMING FALLS TO MAINE FRIDAY NIGHT IN OPENER
Bulldogs Host Boston College Nov. 1
RESULTS
SMITHFIELD, RI - The Bryant University men's swimming team
kicked of the home season Friday night hosting the University of
Maine at the Chace Athletic Center.
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| The Bryant men's swim team opened its home season hosting the
University of Maine Friday night at the Chace Athletic Center.
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The Bulldogs would fall to the visiting Black Bears as Maine won
the men's meet by a score of 161-100 and Maine's women edged the
Bulldogs 133-129.
The Bryant men were led by a pair of second-year standouts as
well. Sophomore Kevin McDonald (New Haven,
Conn.) earned a first-place finish in the men's 50 yard
freestyle in 22.45 seconds and also was the first to touch in the
100 yard backstroke in 55.41 seconds.
Teammate and sophomore Alex Kosenski (Lavalette,
N.J.) was a double-winner as well for the Bulldogs as the
freshman took first-place honors in the 100 yard free in 48.93
seconds and captured first in the 200 yard free in 1:48.36, just
edging junior Steve Nguyen (San Jose, Calif.) who was runner-up in
the 200 free in 1:49.64.
Nguyen was also second in the men's 200 yard individual medley
in 2:08.86.
On the women's side, a total of five women's school record and
six women's pool records fell against the Black Bears. After
a record-breaking performance at Wagner a week ago, freshman
Molly Smith (Belmont, Mass.) set a pair of school
and pool records in the 100 and 200 yard breastroke.
Smith broke her own school mark in the 100 breast winning in a
time of 1 minute, 8.96 seconds, just ahead of Maine's Jennifer
Trodden who was second in 1:10.10. Smith would later break
the school mark in the 200 yard breaststroke with a first-place
finish in a time of 2:28.82.
Fellow freshman Casey Ostrander (Yarmouthport,
Mass.) also set a pair of records in the meet, taking home
first place in the 50 freestyle in 24.65 seconds and later in the
100 yard free in 54.69 seconds. Both Smith and Ostrander
helped get the meet off to a great start in leading the Bryant 400
yard medley relay to a first-place finish right off the bat.
The team, including sophomore Abby Whittaker (Salisbury,
Mass.) and senior Jess Looney (Goffstown,
N.H.), who swam the final leg, finished first in a school
record time of 4:06.02, shattering the old mark of 4:10.33 set last
year.
The Bulldogs will host Boston College in a non-conference meet
on Sunday, November 1 at the Chace Athletic Center starting at
noon.
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