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Kelsey Van Eldik
Marty Fuller

Owls split duals with Division I opponents

OXFORD, Ohio -- Competing in a double-dual meet with a pair of NCAA Division I opponents on Saturday, the Kenyon College women's swimming and diving team held their own. The Owls lost to host Miami University, 175-121, but knocked off Xavier University, 182-106.

The Owls, now with a 7-6 dual meet record, had four individual event wins and one relay win. The individual event wins came from senior Molly Haag and sophomore Kelsey Van Eldik.

Haag rang up a 200-yard freestyle time of 1:49.22, which not only was good enough to win the event, it also went down as the third fastest time in NCAA Division III this season. Later in the meet, Haag tacked on another victory in the 500-yard freestyle. She clocked in at 4:53.07, which was just ahead of teammate Nora Lee Brown, who took the runner-up spot in 4:59.52.

Van Eldik accounted for Kenyon's other two individual event wins by sweeping the breaststroke races. She won the 100-yard version in 1:01.97 and then took the 200 in a time of 2:15.20.

Kenyon's win in relay competition occurred in the meet-closing 200-yard freestyle relay. The Owls foursome of Gwen Eisenbeis, Kate Bogan, Julia Mascarenhas, and Lisa Torrecillas-Jouault worked together to post a winning time of 1:33.10.

In addition to that relay result, Eisenbeis recorded a pair of top-three finishes on her own. She placed second in the 100-yard backstroke, touching in 54.78, and then placed third in the 100-yard butterfly, completing that race in 56.71.

Brown, who had that second-place showing in the 500-yard freestyle, added a second-place time of 10:08.64 in the 1,000-yard freestyle. Her mark was the fourth fastest in NCAA Division III this season.

Other top-three finishes for the Owls came from Amelia Stevenson, Ashlyn Widmer, and Torrecillas-Jouault. Stevenson was second in the 200-yard butterfly (2:03.69), Torrecillas-Jouault was second in the 100-yard freestyle (51.47), and Widmer was third in the 400-yard individual medley (4:29.58).

In diving, Kenyon's top finisher was Lucy Cassell-Kelley. She placed fifth on the one-meter board and placed sixth on the three-meter board.

Up next for the Kenyon team is the annual North Coast Athletic Conference Championship, a four-day meet that begins February 11 at Denison University.

 
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