Day 2 of the ECAC Swimming and Diving Championships ended with the Iona Women holding on to the seventh spot; however, the Iona men dropped down a spot to eleventh.
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The Iona women behind the strength of a pair sixth place relay efforts coming in the 200-yard Medley and 800-yard Freestyle held place backed by a seventh-place swim in the 100-Backstroke by freshmen
Raegan O'Brien at 56.62 and a tenth effort by
Katherine Sarnes in the 400-yard Individual Medley at 4:55.96.
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The opening Medley Relay had O'Brien swim backstroke (26.79: Freshmen
Hailey Baker swim breaststroke (29.26),
Mary Grace Waring swim Butterfly (25.48) and graduate student
Julia Moser anchor freestyle (23.47) for a 1:45.10.
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O'Brien (1:55.95), Junior
Brennyn Veit (1:56.93), Freshmen
Mollie Sarnes (2:00.17) and Sophomore
Kate Kennedy (1:58.00) combine for a 7:51.05 time.
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Navy (465); Bucknell (441), Penn (362); Loyola (249); Rutgers (226); and, Fairfield (163) hold the top six spots.
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The Iona men had a disqualification in the opening 200-Medely Relay when automated judging determined a early take off by .01. Iona rebounded in the 800-Free Relay as Sophomore
Elijah Decasseres (1:42.38);
Robert Heim (1:44.68);
Colin Martin (1:48.61) and
Matthew Woyksnar (1:41.37) combined for seventh at 6:57.04.
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The men's standings have Navy (511.5); Columbia (330.5); Loyola (316.5); Bucknell (229); Fairfield (171); Penn (156.5); Delaware (128); West Point (124); Rider (113); Manhattan (83) and Iona at 63-points.
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The meet concludes Sunday with the 1650-Free, 200-Back, 200-Breaststroke, 100-Freestyle, 200-Butterfly and 400-Freestyle Relay.
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