Women's Swimming Loses at Central Connecticut State, 141-121

10/25/2014 8:00:00 PM

Results

NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (Oct. 25, 2014) - The LIU Post women's swimming team snagged seven event wins Saturday, but dropped a 141-121 decision to Central Connecticut State at Jack Suydam Natatorium. Junior Joyce Kwok (Middle Village, N.Y.) posted two NCAA "B" cut times in the 100- and 200-yard butterfly. 

In the first event, the green and gold's 200-yard medley relay squad, Seren Jones (Cardiff, Whales, United Kingdom), Erika Hultman (Bara, Sweden), Marthe Soerensen (Stavanger, Norway) and Courtney Delehanty (Oceanport, N.J.), raced to a second-place finish of 1:49.79.

In the 1000-yard freestyle, Poppy Hill (London, England, United Kingdom) and Jacqueline Tonn (Edmonton, Alberta) tapped the pad at 11:17.34 and 11:29.57, respectively, good for a third- and fifth-place clocking.

The 200-yard freestyle saw a respective fourth- and fifth-place showing for Soerensen and Kat Kazaba (Point Pleasant Beach, N.J.), but Johanna Pettersson (Kungalv, Sweden) had the Pioneers' initial first-place effort in the 100-yard backstroke at 58.11.

Senior Carolin Rademacher (Isernhagen, Germany) and Hultman individually placed second (1:08.75) and fourth (1:09.96) in the 100-yard breaststroke. Kwok, the butterfly and backstroke specialist, competed in the 200-yard butterfly and achieved an NCAA "B" qualifying cut time (2:06.54). 

The Pioneers took a one-two finish in the 50-free as Laura Bendfeldt (Grosshansdorf, Germany) and Meghan Brazier (West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) reached for the wall at 24.83 and 24.97, respectively. In the 100-yard freestyle, the pair slotted second and third, with Brazier finishing at 53.89 and Bendfeldt at 53.99.

The 200-yard backstroke featured another first-place clocking by Pettersson at 2:08.22, with her teammate Cristina Garcia Mauri (Malaga, Spain) trailing by four seconds and completing the event third. Rademacher swam the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:24.76, good for second, while Kazaba and Hill finished the 500-free in 5:36.33 and 5:42.10, respectively.

The 100-yard butterfly saw Kwok's second NCAA "B" qualifying cut time of the day. The junior tapped the pad first with a time of 56.97. Rademacher and Soerensen helped the green and gold to another one-two event win in the 400-yard individual medley, completing their swim at 4:40.21 and 4:43.50.

LIU Post's 400-yard freestyle relay "A" squad - Bendfeldt, Pettersson, Kwok and Brazier - took the final event with a 3:35.25 finish. 

Head Coach Maureen Travers and the Pioneers are back in action next Saturday (Nov. 1), when they host East Stroudsburg at the Pratt Natatorium at 1 p.m.