Women's Swimming | 11/17/2019 12:20:00 AM

COMPLETE RESULTS

CARLISLE, Pa. - The Bloomsburg University women's swimming team had a dominant showing on Saturday afternoon as it won its fifth consecutive dual meet by a 150-49 margin at Dickinson College. The Huskies improved to 5-2 overall on the season and had 19 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) qualifying swims during the meet.

Senior Becca Cubbler (Royersford, Pa./Spring-Ford) continued her dominance in the distance events as she won the 500-yard freestyle, the 1000-yard freestyle, and the 1650-yard freestyle and posted conference qualifying times in all three events. Cubbler posted a time of 18:01.59 in the 1650-yard freestyle to earn the Huskies' first individual win of the day and later won the 500-yard freestyle by more than 17 seconds as she touched the wall in a time of 5:14.37. In the last event of the day, Cubbler won the 1000-yard freestyle with a time of 11:00.57.

Freshman Courtney Hubric (Mohnton, PA/Governor Mifflin) also won three times on Saturday, picking up two individual wins and a relay victory. Sophomore Carlie Owens (Douglassville, Pa./Daniel Boone) and freshman Alicia Lehman (Pittsburgh, Pa./Keystone Oaks) added two wins each with both earned one individual win and one relay win. Junior Kelley McHugh (Philadelphia, Pa./Little Flower), sophomore Liz Jackson (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Cumberland Valley), and sophomore Julie Marchioni (Reynoldsville, Pa./DuBois Area) each had one individual win while senior Kiera Wadsworth (Blakeslee, Pa./Ridley), senior Shannon Ball (New Cumberland, Pa./Cedar Cliff), junior Lindsay Mooney (Salisbury, Md./Parkside), freshman Jenna Park (Mount Joy, PA/Donegal), and freshman Grace Beierschmitt (Dover, PA/Dover) all were part of relay-winning foursomes.

Jackson, Hubric, Park, Owens, junior Chelsea Ackerson (Hamilton, N.J./Steinert), and freshman Anna Sugra (Millersville, PA/Penn Manor) each qualified for the conference meet twice while Mooney, McHugh, Wadsworth, and Lehman added one qualifying mark apiece.

The Huskies opened with Wadsworth, Owens, Hubric, and Park teaming up for a winning time of 1:51.02 in the 200-yard medley relay. Following Cubbler's win in the 1650-yard freestyle, Jackson earned her win in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 2:00.29. Hubric then posted a time of 24.60 to take first in the 50-yard freestyle with McHugh touching the wall in 4:46.75 in the 400-yard individual medley to claim the victory in that event.

Marchioni then touched first in the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 2:22.85 before Hubric won her second individual event of the day after posting a time of 54.86 in the 100-yard freestyle. Lehman won the 200-yard backstroke in 2:14.40 and Owens earned the win in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:29.17.

Bloomsburg's quartet of Lehman, Beierschmitt, Ball, and Mooney then teamed for a time of 1:42.03 to win the 200-yard freestyle relay.

The Huskies will take a couple of weeks off from competition to get themselves ready for the annual three-day Zippy Invitational, hosted by the University of Akron. Action will begin on Friday, December 6 and will go through Sunday, December 8.