By: By Bill Morgal, Sports Information Director
SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. – The Shippensburg University women's swimming team resumed its dual meet schedule Friday night inside Heiges Field House and picked up a pair of victories inside Donald N. Miller Pool, defeating conference rival California (Pa.) 110-88 and Mountain East school Fairmont State 139-48.
Shippensburg won nine of the 11 events on Friday night, while sophomores
Rikki Sargent and
Carolyn Meier and senior
Julie Brown were multi-event winners.
Sargent won the 200-yard individual medley in 2:14.62, finishing less than a second ahead of freshman teammate
Rebecca Burke, and also posted the top time in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:08.90).
Meier set the tone early in the meet with a 200-yard freestyle time of 1:56.68 – posting a convincing two-second victory – before winning the 100-yard freestyle in 53.76 seconds.
Brown won the 50-yard freestyle in 24.32 seconds and came back to win the 100-yard butterfly in 1:00.18. Burke took third in the 100 butterfly in 1:02.47.
SU went 1-2-3 in the 100-yard backstroke. Junior
Jess Trgovic touched the wall first in 1:03.06, while senior
Colleen Stiles was just two-tenths of a second behind. Junior
Devon Perugini swam in the second heat but posted the third-fastest time, finishing in 1:04.33.
Trgovic, Sargent, Brown and Meier opened the night with a first-place time of 4:04.10 in the 400-yard medley relay. SU bookended the evening with a 400-yard freestyle relay win after the quartet of junior
Tara Yohe, freshman
Abbey O'Neal, freshman
Jillian Stevens and junior
Jen Flinchbaugh posted a time of 3:48.22.
Shippensburg will host IUP at 1 p.m. Saturday.
Shippensburg Top-3 Finishers
400 Medley Relay
1.
Jess Trgovic,
Rikki Sargent,
Julie Brown,
Carolyn Meier 4:04.10
1000 Free
3.
Tara Yohe 11:22.19
200 Free
1.
Carolyn Meier 1:56.68
3.
Kaytee Garcia 2:04.05
50 Free
1.
Julie Brown 24.32
200 IM
1.
Rikki Sargent 2:14.62
2.
Rebecca Burke 2:15.34
100 Fly
1.
Julie Brown 1:00.18
3.
Rebecca Burke 1:02.47
100 Free
1.
Carolyn Meier 53.76
100 Back
1.
Jess Trgovic 1:03.06
2.
Colleen Stiles 1:03.26
3.
Devon Perugini 1:04.33
500 Free
3.
Kaytee Garcia 5:27.96
100 Breaststroke
1.
Rikki Sargent 1:08.90
400 Freestyle Relay
1.
Tara Yohe,
Abbey O'Neal,
Jillian Stevens,
Jen Flinchbaugh 3:48.22
3.
Devon Perugini,
Kaytee Garcia,
Sami Sabol,
Colleen Stiles 3:57.03