Little Rock v. Indiana State v. Evansville (Women)
- Saturday, November 2, 2019
- Evansville, Indiana
- Results
Courtesy: Little Rock Athletics
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – The Little Rock swimming and diving team raced in a tough tri-meet this afternoon against Missouri Valley Conference foes Indiana State and Evansville. The Sycamore visitors defeated both teams handily, but the Evansville hosts only bested the Trojans by 17 points with the home advantage. To view the full results, click HERE.
Relays
The Trojans started out strong with a third-place finish in the 200 medley relay by the A team of freshman Fer Moussier, junior Palmer Ristroph, sophomore Carolyn Godwin, and junior Regan Lawrence throwing down a time of 1:51.32, touching out the Evansville Aces A squad by nearly a second and a half.
The meet was wrapped up with an even more impressive finish by the Little Rock team in the 200 freestyle relay, as Lawrence, freshman Asmalia Redzuan, senior Charis Won, and freshman Khadijah Brown put together a time of 1:39.04 for second place overall and nearly three seconds ahead of Evansville’s fifth-place A team.
Diving
The junior pair of divers, Coy Jones and Sierra Thain, both competed on the boards this afternoon. On the one meter board, Jones took fifth in the nine-woman field with 201.55 points, while Thain turned in a score of 171.30. In the three-meter diving event, Jones turned in a score of 184.25 for seventh place.
Freestyle
In the longest event of the day, the 1000 freestyle, freshman Emma Bleasdell held on for the fourth-place finish one second ahead of the top Aces swimmer, stopping the clock at 10:53.40. The following event, the 200 free, saw classmate Redzuan as the top Trojan, coming into the wall at 1:57.27.
On the other end of the spectrum, Lawrence was the first Little Rock sprinter to finish in the 50 free, grabbing fourth place with a 25.10 and topping the first Evansville swimmer by just one hundredth of a second. The junior also was the first Trojan to stop the clock in the 100 free, earning a 55.34 for sixth place. For the final freestyle event of the day, the 500, sophomore Lea Zengerling took fourth in a season-best 5:18.20, followed close behind by Redzuan at 5:19.95.
Backstroke
As in the past few meets for the Trojans, senior Jessie Baldwin again led the Trojan backstrokers in the 100, touching the wall at 1:01.97 for sixth. Moussier raced in the longer back event, putting up a time of 2:10.90 in the 200 for sixth place as well.
Breaststroke
Ristroph bested the top Evansville breaststroker in the 100 breast by just six tenths, recording a 1:08.30 for third place. The junior repeated in the 200 breaststroke, taking sixth at 2:31.18, with freshman Aly Grider coming in with a personal best of 2:33.72 behind her.
Butterfly
Posting the top finish of the day for the Trojans, Moussier clinched second in the 200 butterfly with a time of 2:07.18, just four tenths behind the top Indiana State finisher. Godwin competed in the shorter fly event, clocking in at a season-best 59.52 in the 100 butterfly for fourth place.
200 IM
Baldwin was the top Little Rock swimmer in the 200 IM, turning in a season-best 2:14.60 with a quick front half to secure sixth place.
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Courtesy: Indiana State Athletics
EVANSVILLE, IND. – Indiana State dominated on Saturday defeating Evansville and Little Rock. The blue and white placed first in all 14 swimming events.
The Sycamores topped the Purple Aces by a final score of 233-77 and the Trojans 240-56.
Surging Sycamores
12 Sycamores earned individual victories at the conference double-dual meet, and four of them claiming multiple victories.
Greece-native Anna Maria Nasiou took first place in both breaststroke events for the second consecutive time on Saturday. Nasiou posted a time of 1:08.10 in the 100 breaststroke and a time of 2:26.26 in the 200 breaststroke.
Freshman Kaimi Matsumoto claimed two victories in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:55.54 and the 50 yard freestyle with a time of 24.62.
Senior Kendall Hansen also won two events posting a time of 56.89 in the 100 backstroke and a time of 2:04.90 in the 200 backstroke.
Freshman Margaret Gray also claimed two victories in the 200 butterfly with a time of 2:06.78 while also winning the 100 butterfly with a time of 57.65.
Britney Meienburg place third in the 1 meter dive with a score of 203.40 while Sophomore Keara Shelton claimed third in the 3 meter dive with a score of 213.55.
Christensen’s Corner
“I was really proud of our effort, focus, and execution today,” Head Coach Josh Christensen said. “We had a lot of high-quality swims from across the team. I saw a lot of corrections being made from our first couple of meets, which was one of our goals coming into the meet.
We’re going to need to continue to keep working and improving from here. Next weekend we face two tough teams in Xavier and Illinois State. We’ll need everyone to step up and perform well in those meets.”
Courtesy: Evansville Athletics
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — The University of Evansville women’s swimming and diving team took on conference opponents Indian State and Arkansas Little Rock in a double dual at Wyttenbach Pool.
As a team the Aces took down Little Rock 158-141, while falling to Indiana State 223-77.
Kristy Kupfer earned second place in the 100-yard backstroke at 59.85, while adding a fifth-place finish in the 200-yard backstroke at 2:10.09.
Sarah Jahns took third place in the 200-yard backstroke at 2:09.73, before adding a fifth place finish in the 1000-yard backstroke in 10:54.40.
Sage Moore captured third place in the 200-yard breaststroke at 2:28.81, while also finishing in ninth place in the 200-yard IM at 2:16.66.
In diving the Aces, we led by Fae Keighley who earned first place finishes in both the 1-meter and 3-meter boards.
The Aces will next take on Birmingham-Southern on Nov. 9 in Birmingham, Al.
