Illinois State vs McKendree (W)
- Saturday, October 8, 2022
- Normal, Ill.
- SCY (25 yards)
- Results
- Final Score: Illinois State 218, McKendree 81
Courtesy: Illinois State Athletics
Normal, Ill – Illinois State Swimming and Diving cruised to a 218-81 win over McKendree in its first meet of the 2022-2023 season at Horton Pool Saturday. The Redbirds won all but one event en route to the big win over the Bearcats.
HIGHLIGHTS:
- The Redbirds book ended the meet with wins in both relays. Chloe Tyler, Madyson Morse, Giulia Basco and Diana Walker posted a 3:53.99 for a victory in the 400-yard medley relay. Tyler, Ella Turken, Emma Feltzer and Walker led Illinois State to a 200-yard freestyle relay win with a 1:38.93.
- Illinois State dominated in diving, finishing 1-2-3 in both 1M and 3M events. That included a sweep of the top spots from sophomore Eva Reyes, who won with a 285.9 in 3M and a mark of 288.9 in the 1M dive. Fellow sophomore Gaby Russell also finished top-3 in both events as she posted a second-place mark of 250.35 in 3M dive and a third-place finish in 1M with a 242.77.
- Basco, Madyson Morse and Feltzer each secured multiple event wins Saturday. Basco took home the 200-yard and 100-yard butterfly events with a 2:07.37 in the 200 and 58.22 in the 100. Morse, the defending 200 IM MVC champion, won with a 2:12.68 in that event and a 1:06.50 in the 100-yard breaststroke. Feltzer won in the 200-yard freestyle with a 1:55.57 and in the 100-yard freestyle with a 52.90.
- Redbird freshmen posted a strong showing in their collegiate debut as Basco highlighted a group that finished with four wins on Saturday. Tyler secured a victory in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 1:55.57. Turken posted a 24.94 to win the 50-yard freestyle. Tyler, Basco and Turken were also key in Illinois State’s two relay wins.
- Cassidy Carey and Sydney Hoff also posted victories Saturday as Carey swam to a 2:05.83 in the 200-yard backstroke and Hoff posted a 2:26.45 to win the 200-yard breaststroke.
UP NEXT
The Redbirds head to Champaign next Friday for an in-state dual with Illinois and Southern Illinois. Action is set to get underway at 3 p.m. CT.
Courtesy: McKendree Athletics
NORMAL, Ill. – The McKendree University women’s swimming and diving team took second place at its second meet of the 2022-23 season here Saturday at Illinois State University. The Bearcats garnered 81 points in the contest, including two first place finishes and top three finishes in 10 more events.
Despite many close finishes for both teams, the Redbirds would ultimately outscore the Bearcats 218-81 in the dual meet.
Freshman Ana Cecilia Carvalho (Belo Horizonte, Brazil/Colegio Loyola) posted a first place finish in the 1,000-yard freestyle with a time of 10:34.33, in addition to a first-place finish in the 500-yard freestyle event with a time of 5:07.84. Freshman Natalia Kralova (Poprad, Slovakia/Gymnazium Ivana Horvatha) also competed in the distance freestyle events, placing fourth in the 1,000-yard and third in the 500-yard.
McKendree also recorded six second place finishes in Saturday’s meet, including two from freshman Jocelyn Zgola (Milwaukee, Wis./Greendale) in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:57.07 and the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 54.00. Sophomore Karley Sonnenberg (Plainfield, Ill./Plainfield North) finished second in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 24.96, only .02 seconds behind leader Ella Turken from ISU. Rounding out the second-place finishers was freshman Keianna Moss (Nassau, Bahamas/Focus Point Academy) in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 59.94 and sophomore Sarah Gormley (Las Cruces, N.M./Las Cruces) recording a 2:12.70 in the 200-yard individual medley.
McKendree’s ‘A’ 200-yard freestyle team also recorded a second place finish after recording a time of 1:39.13. The members of the team were Sonnenberg, sophomore Aurora Abbruscato (Reggio Emilia, Italy/I.I.S. Blaise Pascal), junior Alexis Kachkin (Glenview, Ill./Glenbrook South) and senior Abigail Rumpp (Knoxville, Tenn./L&N STEM Academy).
Among the third-place finishes for McKendree was the ‘B’ 200-yard medley relay team that posted a time of 4:08.45. The members of the third place relay team were Kachkin, freshman Rylee Sitton (Troy, Ill./Triad), redshirt freshman McKenzie Fazio (Eagle River, Alaska/Eagle River) and Abbruscato. Also taking third place was sophomore Gormley in the 100-yard breaststroke, clocking a time of 1:09.07, while Sitton placed third in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:29.87. Carvalho, in the 200-yard butterfly, swam to her third top-three finish of the day with a time of 2:09.20.
Two Bearcat divers also competed for the day as freshman Taylor Seibert (Plainwell, Mich./Plainwell) finished fourth and senior Andrea Menard Cordoba (Montreal, Quebec/College St. Ann) finished fifth in both the 1-meter and 3-meter events respectively.
The Bearcats will compete next in a home tri-meet with Saint Louis and Oklahoma Christian on Oct. 21 and 22nd at the McKendree Metro Rec Plex in O’Fallon, Ill.
