Old Dominion Men Beat Towson, 171-129, While Towson Women Dominate, 197-96

TOWSON, Maryland, October 20. THE Old Dominion swimming and diving teams spilt Saturday's meet with Towson. The Old Dominion men took a 171-129 victory and the Towson women won 197-96.

On the men's side, the Monarchs captured nine first place finishes led by Joshua Kinas taking winning two events in the 100 and 200 breast and CAA Men's Diver of the Week, Noah Scully, winning both the 1 meter and 3 meter.

Scully captured both the 1 meter and 3 meter events for the second straight week. Scully's score of 293.85 on the 1 meter was nearly 100 points higher than Peter Stickl's second place score of 194.48. Scully captured a 279.67 on the 3 meter followed by Stick's 223.05 for second place, and Brain Etter's 209.25 score for third place.

Josh Kinas won both the 100 and 200 breaststroke events. He was not only top time in the 100 breast but also the only member of the event to clock in under a minute as logged a time of 59.43. In the 200 breast, Kinas clocked in a 2:10.55.

The Monarchs took home the top two finishes in both the 200 free, 100 back, and 500 free. In the 200 free Chad Gangwer won the event in a time of 1:43.92 and Patrik Balint second in a time of 1:45.26. The 100 back saw Mikael Ramkvist earn first with a time of 52.95 and Johan Lundberg reach the wall second in 54.70. The 500 free had Kristofer Hagg earn first (4:47.46) with Balient placing second (4:48.13).

Old Dominion had success in another backstroke event as the Monarchs finished one, two, three in the 200 back. Ramkvist swam his way to his second top time in 1:53.78 barely edging out his teammate Balient, who was a close second with a time of 1:53.80. Dan Gallagher followed in third with his time of 1:58.56.

Another first place time went to Kevin Latimer in the 200 fly (1:55.53).

For the women, Towson Sophomore Christina Bowman (St. John's College H.S./Silver Spring, Md.) won two individual events and was a member of a winning relay team.

It was the Tigers' eighth straight dual meet victory, dating back to last season.

Bowman earned a victory in the 1000-yard freestyle with a personal-best time of 10:20.39 before posting a time of 59.97 seconds in the 100-yard butterfly. She also swam the anchor leg of the 200-yard freestyle relay team, which finished in first place with a time of 1:38.23.

Freshman Meredith Budner (Walter Johnson H.S./Rockville, Md.) finished first in the 400-yard individual medley by setting a Towson freshman record with a time of 4:29.34, which was 0.2 seconds shy of the overall school mark. Sophomore Hillary Rieveley (Wyomissing H.S./Wyomissing, Pa.) earned first place in the 200-yard butterfly by completing the race in 2:11.52 while helping the Tigers win both relay events.

Freshman Kayla Zeller (Hempfield H.S./Landisville, Pa.) took first place in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:55.73 while junior Katie Nguyen (South River H.S./Edgewater, Md.) finished first in the 100-yard freestyle by touching the wall in 54.80 seconds.

Sophomore Jessica Etzler (Walkersville H.S./Walkersville, Md.) won both diving events, scoring 216.75 points on the one-meter board and 220.80 points on the three-meter board.

Special thanks to Towson and Old Dominion for contributing this report.

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