FAIRFIELD, CT - Coming off a pair of victories on Wednesday at Pace University, the Iona College men's and women's swimming and diving team traveled to Fairfield University in Connecticut today and despite four school records and taking three of four relay events, were defeated in both the men's and women's meets.
Final ScoresÂ
The women's meet saw the Iona women fall to the three-time defending Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Champions by a score of 172-122. The Iona men were caught in a see-saw meet, falling 158-136. The Iona women's record falls to 7-3 on the season, as the men go 6-3, with two meets remaining next week, before the Feb. 9-12 MAAC Championships in Buffalo, NY.
meet summaryÂ
Racing in a 25-meter course for the first and only time this season, the Iona women got off to a great start setting a team record in the 200-Meter Medley Relay 2:01.84 as Luiza Da Silveira,
Julia Moser,
Ashley Benkert and
Katherine Lee combined to edge the Stags by 71. The Iona men nearly duplicated the win, falling by a time of 1:45.90 by Fairfield to 1:46.00 by
Spencer Moran,
Emil Bajramovic,
Jalen Ramjohn and
Conor Mullin.
"Fairfield had a 32-0 lead in diving on both the men's and women's meets and for us to strike back quickly in the relays was really important," noted Iona Coach
Nick Cavataro. Later the women would close the meet with a .14 win in the 400-Meter Freestyle Relay as Lee,
Samantha Whitney,
Isabella Nicholson and
Megan Josephs posted a time of 4:03.61 to Fairfield's 4:03.75.
The Iona men's 400-Meter Freestyle Relay quartet of
Michael Faughnan,
Daniel Hadary, Moran and
Aidan Holbrook went 3:30.42 to Fairfield's 3:33.97 to close the meet.
"The relay events today were very competitive and it was good to see our group respond to quality race pressure. We will need that ability next week and in Buffalo," noted Cavataro.
On the men's side of the score sheet, sophomore
Michael Faughnan won three events (800-Free, 400-Free and 200-Free):
Spencer Moran touched first in two events (100-Back and 200-Back) and
Conor Mullin claimed a pair of first place wins as well (100-Fly and 200-Fly). Moran lowered his own school record for the 25-Meter course to 57.29; Faughnan dropped his 400-Meter Free mark to 4:00.00 as well as taking the 100-Meter Free record to 52.39 with a strong relay lead-off.
Up Next
Iona takes on Atlantic-10 power house Fordham on Wednesday, January 26 followed by MAAC rival Manhattan on Saturday, January 29 for a Senior Day meet at 1:00pm, to close out the dual meet season.
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