WOMEN
Wins by junior Maggie Heaton (New Milford, Conn./New Milford) and freshman Megan Joseph (Hauppauge, N.Y./Hauppauge) in the 100 butterfly and the 200 individual medley, respectively, helped the State University of New York at New Paltz women’s swimming team hold on for a 134.5-127.5 victory over Ramapo College on Monday afternoon at the Adele and Reuben Thomas Swimming Pool.
Heaton started the Hawks’ stretch run by touching out her counterpart from Ramapo in the 100 butterfly, making a charge in the final half of the race to finish with an event-winning time of 1:00.78. Joseph followed Heaton’s swim up with a come-from-behind victory of her own in the 200 individual medley, reeling in Ramapo’s sophomore Brenda Arthur in the final 50 of the race to chart a 2:16.03.
New Paltz rises to 4-0 with the win and next visits Mount Saint Mary College on Friday, Jan. 23, at 6 p.m. Ramapo drops to 4-2 with the loss and hosts Montclair State University next on Saturday, Jan. 24, at 2 p.m.
A total team effort helped the Hawks knock off the host Roadrunners, as five different swimmers combined for six first-place finishes. In addition to Heaton and Joseph, senior Samantha Granan (Hyde Park, N.Y./Franklin D. Roosevelt) helped key New Paltz’s win, finishing first in both the 100 breaststroke (1:10.24) and the 200 breaststroke (2:35.73). Senior Kat Buyes (Wappingers Falls, N.Y./John Jay-East Fishkill) touched first in the 1,000 freestyle (11:25.03), while junior Kim Kallansrude (Muttontown, N.Y./Jericho) charted the top time of 2:18.39 in the 200 butterfly.
Junior Cassidy Griger (Cooperstown, N.Y./Cooperstown Central) logged three second-place results, finishing runner up in the 200 freestyle (1:58.24), the 50 freestyle (25.66) and the 100 freestyle (55.35). Other second-place performances came from sophomore Ann Fici (Hauppauge, N.Y./Hauppauge) in the 1,000 freestyle (11:25.79), Heaton in the 200 butterfly (2:20.25), junior Casey O’Connor (New Fairfield, Conn./New Fairfield) in the 200 backstroke (2:19.27) and Buyes in the 500 freestyle (5:31.45).
New Paltz Men’s Swimming edged by Ramapo 159-103
Senior Jack Spader (Larchmont, N.Y./Mamaroneck) won twice for the State University of New York at New Paltz men’s swimming team, but the Hawks fell, 159-103, to Ramapo College on Monday afternoon at the Adele and Reuben Thomas Swimming Pool.
Spader paced the field in both the 1,000 freestyle (10:25.21) and the 500 freestyle (5:01.74), giving the Hawks two of their three wins on the afternoon. Junior Will Koenig (Highland, Calif./Redlands East Valley) also finished first, doing so in the 50 freestyle with a time of 22.38.
New Paltz drops to 2-2 with the loss and next visits Mount Saint Mary College on Friday, Jan. 23, at 6 p.m. Ramapo rises to 5-1 with the victory and hosts Montclair State University next on Saturday, Jan. 24, at 2 p.m.
Second-place finishes came from freshman Marc Piliero (Peekskill, N.Y./Peekskill) in the 200 backstroke (2:08.20) and the 200 individual medley (2:07.92), junior Rod Taskindoust (New City, N.Y./Clarkstown North) in the 200 freestyle (1:51.27), sophomore Vitaut Gurskiy (Lindenhurst, N.Y./Lindenhurst) in the 100 breaststroke (1:05.99), junior Ethan Cooke (Middletown, Conn./Middletown) in the 200 butterfly (2:10.83) and Koenig in the 100 freestyle (51.11).
College Swimming News is courtesy of New Paltz Swimming.