Women's Swimming | 11/17/2018 9:29:00 PM

COMPLETE RESULTS

BLOOMSBURG, Pa. - The Bloomsburg University women's swimming team won its fifth consecutive dual meet on Saturday afternoon with a 152-97 victory over visiting Dickinson College at the Nelson Field House Pool. The Huskies improved to 5-1 on the season while the Red Devils dropped to 4-2 on the year.

Nine different Huskies posted at least one victory on the afternoon while 22 different swims qualified for the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Championships in February. Freshman Carlie Owens (Douglassville, Pa./Daniel Boone) paced Bloomsburg with a pair of individual victories while junior Kiera Wadsworth (Blakeslee, Pa./Ridley) had an individual win and was part of the 200-yard medley relay team that started the meet with a victory.

Owens and Wadsworth, along with junior Becca Cubbler (Royersford, Pa./Spring-Ford) and sophomore Kelley McHugh (Philadelphia, Pa./Little Flower), each posted three PSAC marks on Saturday while sophomore Chelsea Ackerson (Hamilton, N.J./Steinert), senior Sydney Mercer (Bloomsburg, Pa./Millville), and senior Samantha Carpenter (Sunbury, Pa./Shamokin Area) qualified for the conference meet in two different events. Freshman Emily Smith (Youngwood, Pa./Hempfield), senior Sammie Carroll (Marlton, N.J./Cherokee), senior Marykate Boylan (Edgemont, Pa./Penncrest), and sophomore Lindsay Mooney (Salisbury, Md./Parkside) each had one PSAC mark on the afternoon.

Bloomsburg started the day by finishing first and second in the 200-yard medley relay. Wadsworth, Carpenter, Mooney, and Boylan earned the win with a time of 1:50.03 while the quartet of Mercer, Owens, Cubbler, and junior Kaitlyn Floyd (Mertztown, Pa./Kutztown) touched second with a time of 1:53.50. McHugh picked up the Huskies first individual win of the day as she dominated the 200-yard freestyle with a season-best time of 1:58.20 - more than four seconds better than freshman teammate Liz Jackson (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Cumberland Valley) who was second. Wadsworth followed with a victory in the 100-yard backstroke with a season-best time of 1:00.18 - the eighth-best mark in the conference this season.

Owens earned her first win of the day in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:08.28 - just under one second better than Carpenter who was second. Carroll eased her way to a win in the 200-yard butterfly with a season-best mark of 2:17.00 - more than seven seconds better than senior Abby Kling (York, Pa./Spring Grove) who took second. Carroll's time was seventh fastest in the PSAC this season. Cubbler earned the win in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 54.67 while Mercer followed with a win in the 200-yard backstroke as she posted a time of 2:11.47 - more than two seconds faster than McHugh who was second.

Owens then picked up Bloomsburg's last win of the day in the 200-yard breaststroke with a season-best time of 2:28.00 - more than five seconds better than Carpenter. Owens' time was the sixth-best mark in the conference this year.

Bloomsburg will take a few days off from competition as its next event is the three-day Zippy Invitational, hosted by the University of Akron, beginning on Friday, November 30.

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