Gators Drop Pair to Edinboro

Jan 26, 2008

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EDINBORO, Pa. – The Allegheny College Gator Swimming & Diving squads fell in dual meet action to Edinboro University, the men 86-119 and the women 78-127. Allegheny won five events on the men’s side, including a pair of victories by Ryan Lawrence (Union City, Pa./Union City), while the women picked up nine second-place finishes, and one top finish, by first-year Ashley Whitehead (Meadville, Pa./Meadville Area) in the 50-yard freestyle.

On the men’s side, Lawrence took first in the 100- and 200-yard freestyles, winning the shorter of the pair in a time of 49.78, and the longer in 1:50.07. He also helped by swimming a leg on a relay that includes Colin Gundling (Murrysville, Pa./Franklin Regional), Josh Sesek (Pittsburgh, Pa./Brentwood) and Cory Monroy (Goleta, Calif./Dos Pueblos), finishing second in a time of 1:42.33.

Gundling added to his relay finish by taking first in the 50 freestyle, touching the wall in a time of 23.00, while adding a season-best time of 2:09.73 in the 200 butterfly. Like Gundling, Sesek also brought home an individual first and second place finish, winning the 200 individual medley in a time of 2:03.25 and taking second in the 200 backstroke (2:16.13).

The team of Monroy, Beau Whiteman (Erie, Pa./Harbor Creek), Rob Schreiner (Pittsburgh, Pa./Upper St. Clair) and Ashton Kinney (Sewickley, Pa./Sewickley Academy) picked up the team’s final first-place finish, winning the 200 freestyle relay in a time of 1:33.38, while Whiteman took second in the 500 freestyle in a time of 5:07.80, finishing second to his brother Nick, an Edinboro swimmer.

In addition to her top finish in the 50 freestyle, Whitehead took second in the 100 freestyle in a time of 55.88, and then teamed up with Katie Scherry (Rocky River, Ohio/Rocky River), Erin Ham (Franklin, Pa./Franklin Area) and Carolyn Nairn (Lubbock, Texas/Brownell-Talbot) to take second in the 200 Medley Relay.

Ham followed up her relay finish by placing second in a pair of events, highlighted by a season-best time of 2:17.90 in the 200 individual medley, before touching the wall in the 200 breaststroke in a time of 2:30.83, just off of her season best in the event. Meg Hiestand (Cleveland Heights, Ohio/Cleveland Heights) and Arielle Conti (Rochester, N.Y./Brighton) each kept to the season’s best trend, the former in the 200 butterfly (2:17.86) and the latter in the 1,000 freestyle (11:10.01).

Megan Knox (Pittsburgh, Pa./Fox Chapel) took second in a trio of events, setting career-best times in the 200 freestyle (2:00.61) and backstroke (2:17.25), while swimming a leg on the second-place 200 freestyle relay team along with Nairn, Tara Stein (Pittsburgh, Pa./Woodland Hills) and Megan McGuire (Pittsburgh, Pa./Oakland Catholic).

The Gators next take to the pool on Saturday, February 2, when the team will host Case Western Reserve in the final home meet in the careers of Allegheny seniors Lawrence, Jayson Loeffert (Gibsonia, Pa./Pine-Richland), Dana Megowan (Corvallis, Ore./Crescent Valley) and Schreiner from the men and Rachel Dingman (Milford, Pa./Delaware Valley), Glenna Kramer (Oakdale, Pa./West Allegheny), Emily Magoc (Natrona Heights, Pa./Highland), Nairn and Kerin Seidell (Granville, Ohio/Granville).

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