By: Mike Freeman
COMPLETE RESULTS
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. – Lebanon Valley's men's and women's swim teams traveled to Wilkes-Barre for a rare double dual meet with Wilkes University and Dickinson College on Saturday, Nov. 3. The men's squad suffered a 130-46 defeat to Dickinson and fell to Wilkes 171-19. The women dropped a 112-84 decision to Dickinson, but defeated the Colonels 131.50-67.50.
On the men's side,
Charlie Besjak finished the 200-yard freestyle in 2:08.13, while
Kyle Kingsbury was LVC's top-finisher in the 50-yard freestyle at 25.00, followed closely by
Gabe Dimisa (25.02) and Josh Holdredge (30.05). Dimisa was also the Dutchmen's top-finisher in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 56.08.
On the women's side,
Kaitlyn Welch,
Courtney Betsock,
D'Anna Sydow, and
Erika Schell teamed up in the 200-yard medley relay to place second with a time of 2:01.81. Then, in the 1000-yard freestyle,
Sarah Wolfe took fourth after touching the wall in 12:19.32.
Katie Gingrich (28.05) and
Emily Thrush (28.08) finished tied for third and fifth, respectively, while Betsock added a second-place spot in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:26.40, a MAC qualifying mark.
In the 100-yard butterfly, Schell was third with a MAC-qualifying time of 1:05.34 and
Nicole Flohr took fifth in the 100-yard freestyle at 1:01.53. In the 100-yard backstroke, Welch (1:09.91),
Jillian Frenick (1:11.21), and
Cayla Sydow (1:11.34) were fourth, fifth, and six, respectively, with Welch's time being a MAC-qualifying time. Wolfe then took first in the 500-yard freestyle with a MAC-qualifying mark of 5:53.23, over 12 seconds better than the second-place finisher, while Betsock won the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:14.37, a good-enough time for MAC's. Finally, Gingrich,
Alexis Morace,
Juna Currie, and Schell won the 200-yard freestyle relay with a time of 1:49.96.
LVC is back in action on Friday, Nov. 9 against King's (Pa.) inside Arnold Sports Center.
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