The Rhode Island Rams and the Wagner Seahawks battled to a 150-150 point tie in a women’s dual meet, with no points left-on-the-table, on Saturday in Kingston, Rhode Island.
Full meet results available here.
Wagner Press Release
Kingston, RI – The Wagner swimming & diving team battled to a nail-biting 150-150 tie at the University of Rhode Island this afternoon in the Seahawks’ first meet since returning from winter break.
Following today’s tie, Wagner is now 8-1-1 on the season.
Amanda Lucia (Easthampton, MA/Easthampton) led the Seahawks, notching first-place finishes in all three of her individual events. The junior started off on a good note in 200 yard butterfly, posting a first-place time of 2:06.39. She would keep this momentum going when she out-touched her Ram opponent in the 100-yard butterfly by .47 of a second (58.19). Lucia finished with her last individual event, the 200 yard IM, touching the wall at 2:11.51, in securing her third victory of the day. Following right behind with second and third-place finishes in the 200 yard IM were junior Kara Lacoste (Chicopee, MA/Chicopee Comprehensive) and freshman Maggie Slocomb (Landenburg, PA/St. Marks), posting times of 2:12.86 and 2:12.99, respectively.
In the 1000-yard Freestyle, sophomore Grace Baird (Lexington, NC/ West Davidson High School) recorded her first individual win of the day, posting a time of 10:42.69, while junior Maggie Shaw (Chantilly, VA/Chantilly) was second to the wall (10:45.31). Baird also recorded a first-place time of 5:10.84 in the 500-yard freestyle while freshman Maddie McNichol (Downington, PA/Henderson) took home second-place honors (5:13.21).
Senior Samantha Sides (Cherry Hill, NJ/ Cherry Hill East) ended the first half of the meet in a touch-out race victory in the 50 yard freestyle. Her time of 25.07 was good enough for first place as she just out-touched Rhode Island’s Caitlin Haggan (Braintree, Mass/ Braintree) by .04 of a second. The South Jersey native also earned points for the Seahawks with her third-place finish of 54.67 in the 100-yard freestyle.
Sides also contributed to Wagner’s third-place finish in the 200-yard medley relay. The medley relay, comprised of junior Erin Malone (Sewell, NJ/ Washington Township), sophomore Katja Claesson (Fullerton, CA/Troy High School), junior Michele Detka (Buckeye, AZ/ Verrado) and Sides, recorded a time 1:50.02 and was narrowly out-touched to the wall by the A and B relay teams of URI.
The Wagner diving team was a crucial part to the tie against the Rams, led by senior Mallory Lee (Newark, CA/Moreau Cathloic), freshman Sam Lavrich (Audubon, PA/ Methacton) and junior Erica Curry (Fountain Valley, CA/ Fountain Valley), who took first, second and third place in the 1mtr diving, posting scores of 225.82, 222.52 and 212.91 points, respectively. Curry dominated the 3mtr diving with a score of 228.37 with freshman Sam Lavrich (Audubon, PA / Methacton) taking second with 221.02 points.
Wagner is next in action on Saturday, January 24 in a 1:00 p.m meet at LIU Post.
Rhode Island Press Release
Setting the Scene
The Rhode Island Rams tied the Wagner Seahawks 150-150 at the Senior Day meet in Kingston on Saturday afternoon.
Rhode Island Highlights
- The 200yd medley relay team of Hannah Homans, Carly Deliberty, Kate Snyder, and Bridget Whalen was victorious with a winning time of 1:49.46. They edged out teammates Emily Thomesen, Rachel Revolinski,Colette Aubin, and Caitlin Haggan, who finished in 1:49.89.
- Lauren Folkert won the 200yd freestyle event in 1:56.41, and the 200yd backstroke event in 2:08.08.
- Homans, Aubin, and Thomesen finished 1-2-3 in the 100yd backstroke finishing in 59.08, 1:00.43, and 1:00.61 respectively.
- Revolinski and Deliberty took the top two spots in the 100yd breaststroke, finishing less than a second apart, (1:07.00 & 1:07.60).
- Whalen and Sarah Keshishian were the two fastest swimmers in the 100yd freestyle as Whalen, (53.59), edged out her teammate (54.44), by less than a second.
- Jessica Andruzzi was the winner of the 200yd breaststroke, swimming in a time 2:24.35. Revolinski finished second in the event, (2:26.11).
- Folkert, Haggan, Keshishian, and Whalen dominated the 400yd freestyle relay, winning by over a second, (3:36.04).
Up Next
The Rams travel to Vermont on January 24 for a noon meet with the Catamounts. Rhode Island has two remaining meets before heading to Geneva, Ohio for the Atlantic 10 Championships.
