Results
Reading, PA - Messiah College men's and women's swimming each battled hard at Albright College on Saturday, with the men falling 158-104 and the women losing narrowly 142.5-119.5.
The Falcons started off the meet with the women just missing out on first place in the 200-yard medley by less than half of a second (1:53.21).
Tara Freeman edged out Tricia Janowiak in the final leg but it wasn't enough to make up the difference.
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Messiah later made up some points in the 100, and 200-yard backstroke, taking first and second place in both events.
Caitlin Magaw finished in first place (1:02.68), followed closely by
Laura Penwell (1:02.85) in second for the 100. In the 200, Magaw (2:16.48) finished three seconds ahead of teammate
Katie Reiter (2:19.53).Â
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That win was soon followed by two Falcons' wins in the 50, and 100-yard freestyle by Freeman (24.85, 54.48). She out-touched Albright's Codi Herr to the wall by one tenth of a second in the 100 and set a new school record at the same time.
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The women later finished off the day with a win in the 400-yard freestyle relay (3:45.40) but it wasn't enough to overcome the Lions' eight victories.
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The Albright men proved to be talented in their home pool, taking wins in 10 total events. Messiah took their first win of the meet in the 100-yard breaststroke when
Daniel Wingert overcame Ken Richardson by one tenth of a second (1:03.41). Wingert also won later
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Nick Wieder won two events later in the 200-yard butterfly by a healthy, four-second margin (2:02.34) while setting a school record in the race by about the same margin. Classmate
Chad Alshouse also took third place in that event (2:08.61).
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Nate Brown came extremely close in the 50-yard freestyle, taking second place by just seven-hundredths of a second (22.06). Brown came even closer to finishing one place higher when he came in third in the 100-yard freestyle; Alex Bauer out-touched him by four-hundredths of a second (50.83).
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Like the women, the men finished off the day with a win in the 400-yard freestyle relay with a time of 3:27.51.
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Both the men and women will look to improve upon the results when they take on Dickinson College after almost a three-week break on Dec. 3 in Fredericksen Natatorium.
