After the third day of Northeast Conference Championships, Wagner edged ahead of Central Connecticut.<\/p>\n
Team scores:
\nWagner – 510
\nCentral Connecticut – 505
\nBryant – 347
\nSt. Francis University – 310
\nLIU Brooklyn – 296
\nSacred Heart – 133
\nMount St. Mary’s – 105
\nSt. Francis College (New York) – 90<\/p>\n
Finals began with the 400-yard individual medley. Wagner’s\u00a0Amanda Lucia\u00a0<\/strong>brought home the gold medal with a time of 4:22.92. Central Connecticut’s\u00a0Aidan Devers\u00a0<\/strong>took second with a time of 4:25.18, and Bryant’s\u00a0Lauren Doerrman\u00a0<\/strong>rounded out the top three in 4:27.64.<\/p>\n LIU Brooklyn’s\u00a0Oleksandra Kashyrina\u00a0<\/strong>took first place in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 55.31. Her teammate,\u00a0Danielle Jefferies,\u00a0<\/strong>took the bronze in 55.68. Lucia picked up a silver with a time of 55.55.<\/p>\n Central Connecticut’s\u00a0Christine Rasile\u00a0<\/strong>led her team to a first and third place finish in the 200-yard freestyle. She touched in 1:48.76.\u00a0Lauren Czulewicz\u00a0<\/strong>took third in 1:50.52. St. Francis University’s\u00a0Katie Lafferty\u00a0<\/strong>took the silver in 1:50.24.<\/p>\n Wagner’s\u00a0Anu Nihipali\u00a0<\/strong>took the 100-yard backstroke title. She touched the wall in 53.84, nearly three seconds ahead of the second place finisher. LIU Brooklyn’s\u00a0Nathalie Meyers\u00a0<\/strong>was runner up with a time of 56.72. Central Connecticut’s\u00a0Kaitlyn Troy\u00a0<\/strong>was third in 56.84.<\/p>\n Bryant’s\u00a0Kelci Abernathy\u00a0<\/strong>led the way in the 1-meter diving competition. She was followed by Central Connecticut’s\u00a0Kaitlyn Beaver\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Annemarie Durham.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n In the women’s 400-yard medley relay, Central Connecticut took the gold with a time of 3:43.18. The team consisted of Troy, who swam backstroke, breaststroker\u00a0Maddy Garber<\/strong>, butterflier\u00a0Sabree Thomas\u00a0<\/strong>and freestyler\u00a0Christine Rasile.\u00a0<\/strong>Wagner finished second and LIU Brooklyn was third.<\/p>\n Preliminaries on Saturday begin at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After the third day of Northeast Conference Championships, Wagner edged ahead of Central Connecticut. Team scores: Wagner – 510 Central Connecticut – 505 Bryant – 347 St. Francis University –<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":50024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[56771],"class_list":["post-187927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college","tag-2016-northeast-conference-championships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n