Swimming & Diving Wins Twice On Saturday Afternoon

The Central Connecticut State swimming and diving team won a pair of dual meets on Saturday to improve to 3-1 in dual meet action.

The Blue Devils defeated Northeast Conference member Wagner, 141-121, and defeated Southern Connecticut State 207-73.

The Blue Devils return to competition the first weekend of December at the Gompie Invitational

RELAYS

• CCSU opened the day with a second place finish in the 200 medley relay, with a team comprised of Katrine O'Leary, Cassidy Stotler, Megan Dunnigan and Kelly Stotler going 1:49.38
• O'Leary led off the 200 freestyle relay and partnered with Gabby Spaciano, Shannon Welcome and Kelly Stotler to go 1:38.63, good for second place

FREESTYLE

• Abbey Keane picked up another convincing win in the 1,000 freestyle, going 10:30.88, more than 11 seconds clear of the runner-up
• Maggie Rutledge placed third in the 1,000 with a swim of 10:51.59
• Welcome took the top spot in the 200 freestyle, with a swim of 1:54.74, with Spaciano third at 1:57.33 and Keane fourth at 1:58.41
• O'Leary won for a second time, capturing the 50 freestyle in a time of 24.42
• Welcome placed second in the 100 freestyle with a swim of 53.75, and was followed in third place by Kelly Stotler (54.42)
• Keane picked up her second individual win of the day in the 500 freestyle, touching at 5:11.87, nearly six full seconds in front of the runner up
• Welcome (5:18.26), Spaciano (5:19.32) and Rutledge (5:19.73) finished 3-4-5 in the race

 STROKES

• O'Leary picked up her first individual win of the meet with a 57.72 effort in the 100 backstroke
• Gabi Wroblewski (2:12.09) and Sophie Milhomens (2:13.23) posted a convincing 1-2 finish in the 200 butterfly
• Cassidy Stotler claimed the top spot in the 100 butterfly, with a swim of 58.92
• Wroblewski won again by running away with the 400 IM, finishing in 4:37.39, while Milhomens (4:42.55) and Morgan O'Hara (4:43.55) finished third and fourth respectively
• Milhomens (2:06.69) was 0.5 seconds off of the top spot in the 200 backstroke, an event that Dunnigan placed third (2:09.28)
• Cassidy Stotler was second in both the 100 breaststroke, clocking a 1:07.23, and 200 breaststroke, at 2:24.96

DIVING

• Jewelle Maziarz had the top score in the 1-meter diving, scoring 250.30 points, and was second with 218.25 points on the high board
• Kaitlyn Carroll had the high-score on the 3-meter board, finishing at 237.83, after her 219.47 points was good for the second-best point total on the low board