Swimming
Men: King's 102, Lebanon Valley 96
Women: Lebanon Valley 143, King's 58
Full Results
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - Lebanon Valley racked up 12 event wins, including a new school record in the women's 200-yard medley relay, to split with King's on Saturday in their final swim until 2012.
The LVC women won 143-58 to improve to 5-2. The men's side came right down to the final two events, but King's took 15 points out of the penultimate 100-yard breaststroke to take an insurmountable lead and win 102-96.
Matt Dwyer won the 200-IM in 2:18.65, his first of two wins before capturing the 100-back in 1:04.13 ahead of teammate
Joseph Chubb (1:04.95).
The men's 200-free relay of Chubb,
Collin Straka,
Shane Miller, and Dwyer also won in 1:37.82.
The women's 200 medley relay shaved nearly three-quarters of a second off their yard record, winning in 1:58.46 with
Alicia Hain,
Julia Mongeau,
Jan Ikeda, and
Noelle Brossman.
Mary Gardner was a double-winner, in the 50-free (27.01) and 100-free (59.86), as was Ikeda, who captured the 100-fly (58.91) the 200-free in 2:02.52, coming close to one of LVC's oldest records (2:01.81 from 1991) on the books.
Among LVC's event winners were
Kris Roaten in the 1,000-free (12:13.04), Hain in the 100-back (1:06.09), Mongeau in the 100-breast (1:13.83, just two-tenths of the LVC record), and the 200-free relay of
Gabbie Groff, Gardner,
Charlie Robinson, and Brossman (1:51.12).
The Dutchmen will break for finals and the holidays before returning at Misericordia on Jan. 11.