Women Earn First Victory Over Marist in 5 Years

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Women Earn First Victory Over Marist in 5 Years

January 15, 2017 | Swimming

The Men's and Women's Swim and Dive teams both earned victories

The Boston College swim team returned to action after a six week break to host Marist. For the women it was the first victory over Marist in five years, 156-144. The men cruised to a win, 213-87.

Results

Recap

The women swept the 200 Medley Relay to get the Eagles off to a great start. Caroline Quindlen, Taylor Covington, Victoria Lin and Grace Kunkel took first (149.61), Ina Elcott, Alison McDonough, Hope Dragelin and Julie Dobson took second (1:50.99), and Katherine Karle, Dakota Meyer, Sarah Hanning and Maria Abrams took third (1:53.60).
The men finished first and second in the 200 Medley Relay. The first place team finished in 1:34.04. The team was made up of Josh Williams, McKenzie Cole, Taylor Cortens and Colin Derdeyn. Daniel Creighton, Billy Miller, David Howard and Nicolas Junghahn took second (1:35.43).
Anthony Richardson continues to have a great senior campaign. He came out with four victories - the 1,000 yd. freestyle, 100 yd. freestyle, 500 yd. freestyle and 400 yd. freestyle - as well as a new school record in the 1000 free (9:24.47), and a new personal record in the 100 free (45.74).
Senior captains Conor Chamness and Josh Williams finished first and second in the 100 yd. backstroke, clocking in at 51.47 and 52.16.
The women swept the 100 yd. & 200 yd. breaststroke. Freshman Taylor Covington took first in the 100 (107.26) followed by Jamie Doherty in second (1:10.61), Dakota Meyer placed third (1:11.20). Senior captain Abigail Kordell was first in the 200 (2:31.75) followed again by Doherty in second (2:33.34), Meyer in third (2:33.42) and McDonough in fourth (2:34.53).
The team swept the 100 yd. and 200 yd. butterfly. Freshman Victoria Lin took first in both events, clocking in at 2:09.28 in the 200 and 58.60 in the 100.
Senior captain Cole Malatesta swept the diving events with a score of 316.20 in the 1 m. and 327.75 in the 3 m. Jack McCarthy took second in the 3 m. with a score of 275.48.
Colin Derdeyn turned in a dual meet best time in the 100 yard butterfly in 51.93 and a first place finish.
Taylor Cortens picked up four victories on the day - 200 yd. medley relay (1:34.04), 200 yd. butterfly (1:54.18), 200 yd. backstroke (1:53.73) and 200 yd. IM (1:56.88).
Freshman Lauren Quinn and sophomore Erika Freeman took first and second in the 200 IM.