Meet Results
WENHAM, Mass.—Gordon and Bridgewater State split a pair of swimming matchups on Saturday afternoon at the Bennett Aquatic Center. The Bears took the men's matchup, while Gordon edged their opponents on the women's side 139-121.
The Gordon women improved to 3-2 on the season in head-to-head meets and remained unbeaten at the Bennett Center with the program's second win in as many weeks.
Women's Highlights
- The tightly contested women's matchup began with Gordon's top 200 Medley team edge out Bridgewater State by less than a second.
- Amber Collard (Yorba Linda, Calif.) continued her strong rookie season with a sizeable victory in the 1,000 Free by 14 seconds. Collard also won the 50 Fly in a dead sprint.
- Caris Lyons (Orrville, Ohio) claimed the third victory of the day for the Scots with a 2:08 showing in the 200 Free. Lyons added another win later in the day in the 100 Free, as Gordon took the top three spots in the event.
- Jena Jekums (Anaheim, Calif.) made it four straight event wins with a slight win in the 50 back over teammate Alex Hall (Boca Raton, Fla.). The Gordon freshman turned in a 30.75 mark compared to 31.43 for Hall.
- Bridgewater State won two straight events in the 50 Breast and 100 Fly, but Abby Bacon (Sacramento, Calif.) became the third Gordon rookie to take an individual event with a 28:01 pace in the 50 Free.
- Hall avenged her close loss earlier in the day with an impressive showing in the 100 Back, taking down top seeded Adi Tobias (No. Attleboro, Mass.) by three seconds.
- Junior Alexa Bragg (Trumbull, Conn.) finished in the top spot in the 500 Free for the first time this season, beating the second-place finisher by nearly 20 seconds.
- Gordon made it a clean sweep of the relays on Saturday as the 200 Free team grabbed first with a 1:46 time, four seconds better than their seed.
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Men's Highlights
- First-year Aaron Lewis (Mystic, Conn.) was sharp in the men's 1,000 by taking the even by nearly 40 seconds.
- Dean Drukker (Bedford, N.H.) squeaked by BSU's Max Medina (Marion, Mass.)Â in the 100 Free with a time of 52.24.
- Jack Cicchelli (Middletown, R.I.) and Langdon Kessner (Rochester, N.Y.) took all the points in the 400 IM.Â