UNIVERSITY PARK, Penn., February 1. THE Penn State men's and women's swimming and diving teams gave their seniors a happy sendoff by beating Rutgers on Senior Day Saturday at McCoy Natatorium. <\/p>\n
The 12th-ranked women won easily 166-76, while the men came away with a 130-113 victory before about 500 fans. <\/p>\n
The women won 10-of-13 events on the way to finishing their dual meet season with an 8-1 mark. The men improved to 3-6 on their brutal schedule by winning seven events. <\/p>\n
"This was a nice way for the senior class to finish their final meets at McCoy Natatorium," said Penn State head coach Bill Dorenkott. "They performed well in front of a nice crowd today." <\/p>\n
Sophomore Lisa Silvestri (Huntingdon Valley, Pa.) won both the one-meter and three-meter events to pace all Penn State divers. She won on the one-meter board with a score of 291.23, almost 29 points better than her closest opponent, and she won the three-meter event with 283.58. <\/p>\n
Senior Kristen Woodring (Sinking Spring, Pa.), junior Deirdre Dlugonski (Washington, Pa.) and junior Larissa Kavchok (Emmaus, Pa.) all won an individual and relay race. <\/p>\n
Woodring and Kavchok helped teammates Chelsea Frank (Bedford, New Hampshire) and Sarah Haupt (Carlisle, Pa.) win the 400-yard medley relay with a time of 3:50.57 to start the day. Woodring also won the 200 breaststroke with an NCAA "B" cut time of 2:17.93. Kavchok won the 50 freestyle in 24.38. <\/p>\n
Dlugonski finished first in the 200 IM (2:06.80) and the 400 freestyle relay (3:30.67) with teammates Lauren Semchyshen (New Fairfield, Conn.), Genie Cheng (Oak Park, Calif.) and Rikki Covey (Spokane, Wash.). <\/p>\n
Three freshmen, Claire Hawley (Barnstable, Mass.), Erin Morris (Ft. Wayne, Ind.) and Megan Palera (Santa Maria, Calif.), also picked up wins for the Nittany Lions. <\/p>\n
Hawley won the 1000 freestyle in 10:10.18, Palera finished first in the 200 butterfly in 2:06.89 and Morris took first in the 500 freestyle with a time of 4:55.86. <\/p>\n
Senior Todd Minnier (Avon Lake, Ohio) picked up two individual and one relay victory to lead the Penn State men. <\/p>\n
He was on the 400 medley relay team that won with a time of 3:21.76 to start the men's competition. Sophomore Shawn McLin (Sinking Spring, Pa.), sophomore Chris Ippoliti (Berwyn, Pa.) and junior Daryl Northrop (Verona, N.J.) joined Minnier in the win. <\/p>\n
McLin picked up a victory in the 200 backstroke as well with a time of 1:50.86. <\/p>\n
Minnier also won the 200 freestyle with an NCAA "B" cut time of 1:37.67 and he placed first in the 500 freestyle in 4:31.84. <\/p>\n
Freshman Nate Torok (Newtown, Pa.), junior Marc Gastaldo (Winslow, Maine) and sophomore Dan Velez (Germantown, Md.) also picked up first-place finishes to help the Nittany Lions earn valuable points. <\/p>\n
Torok won the 200 IM (1:53.31) and Velez took first in the 200 breaststroke (2:04.58). <\/p>\n
Gastaldo won the three-meter diving event with a score of 321.75. He also finished fourth on the one-meter board with 249.90. <\/p>\n
Junior Adam Pierce (Conroe, Texas) picked up a pair of second-place finishes on both the one-meter (309.15) and three-meter (312.75) boards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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