West Chester of Pennsylvania Downs Shippensburg, 170-92 Women/194-68 Men

WEST CHESTER, Pennsylvania, October 7. THE West Chester University men’s and women’s swimming teams opened up the 2006-07 campaign with a pair of victories over Shippensburg. The women claimed a 170-92 victory, while the men won 194-68 on Saturday in West Chester, Pa.

On the women’s side, the foursome of Leanne Rowland, Kate Jones, Kori Kilfeather and Jackie Borkowski teamed up to win the 400-yard medley relay in 4:02.36.

Individually, Rowland won the 50 back (29.40) and 100 back (1:02.93), and took second in the 200 IM (2:17.69), while Kilfeather claimed the 100 fly in 58.94. Borkowski was a triple-winner after she snagged first place in the 50 free (24.54), won the 100 free (54.51) and claimed the 50 fly (26.54).

Katie Brosseau made her WCU debut with a victory in the 1000 free (10:44.70), 500 free (5:17.38) and 200 IM (2:16.50), while Alyssa Smidlein took second in the 1000 free (11:00.72). Danielle Ierley captured the 200 free in 1:59.70, while Erin West placed second in 2:01.03. Christiana Angstadt took second in the 500 free with a 5:24.87.

On the men’s side, the 400-yard medley relay quartet of Jeremy Butler, Marek Matopolski, Joerg Zimmermann and Bill Marcum took first place in 3:34.77.

Matapolski also claimed first place in the 50 breast (27.17), the 200 IM (2:01.10) and the 100 breast (59.93), and Jeremy Sherin claimed second place in 27.55. Zimmermann won the 100 fly (53.18) and took second in the 50 fly (24.68).

Chris Salomone took first place in the men’s 1000 free (10:02.79) and Cody Clauser claimed second in the race with a time of 10:08.24 as the Golden Rams dominated.

Bart Ostrowski was a double-winner for the Golden Rams in his WCU debut, capturing the 200 free (1:45.45) and the 100 free (48.47). Devin Canfield captured three events for WCU – the 50 back (25.38), 50 fly (24.36) and 100 back (54.16) – while Jeremy Butler was second in the 50 back (25.73) and second in the 200 IM (2:06.37).

The 400 free relay quartet of Salomone, Rodney King, Brendan Fanslau and Marcum won the race with a time of 3:15.42.

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