Swimming and Diving falls at La Salle

Friday, October 24

Philadelphia, Penn.

4 p.m.

Drexel University

116

184

La Salle

Photo by: Greg Carroccio

10/24/2014 10:25:00 PM | Men's Swimming & Diving, Women's Swimming & Diving

Results

PHILADELPHIA – The Drexel men's and women's swimming and diving teams fell to the La Salle explorers in the season opener. The men fell to the Explorers 184 to 116 and the women fell 180 to 119.

"Tonight was a good learning experience for team in how to swim fast while still training hard", coach Adam Braun said afterwards. He continued, "Some close races didn't go our way today but I thought we showed great character by competing every race until the meet was over. We have to shift our focus on to our quad-meet on Saturday and raise to the challenge of swimming fast on back to back days away from home."

Aubrey Murray notched a victory for the woman in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:55.18. The winning margin was 1.7 seconds ahead of Sarah Finn of La Salle. Murray then won the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 53.52. Rachel Barnhardt recorded a second win for the Dragons with her victory in the 100-yard breaststroke. Emily Joyce made it three wins after her victory in the 200-yard butterfly. Joyce won by a comfortable 6.79 seconds.

Gillian Gress got a win in her first colligate meet with a win in the 200-yard backstroke. Grees' time was a 2:07.44 and was a winner by 3.64 seconds. Barnhardt made it two wins after winning the 200-yard breaststroke and both of her times are her career-best in season. She won by less than a second with a 2:20.77. Rouse Miranda was victorious in the 500-yard freestyle. Madison Kramer got the women on top of the podium with her win in the one-meter diving competition.

On the men's side Kyle Lukens won the 200-yard butterfly with a 1:51.23. Both of Lukens' times are career-best in season times. David Sanchez recorded a win in the three-meter dive with w score of 293.93. Sanchez was 13.5 points clear of the field. Ted Taylor got his first collegiate victory with a win in the 500-yard freestyle. Taylor also had a strong showing in the 200-yard freestyle with a second place finish.

Lukens made it two wins on the afternoon with a win in 100-yard butterfly. Sanchez also won twice after his win in the one-meter diving competition (258.45 points). The relay of Joel Berryman, Lukens, Alex Chialastri and Mike Shaeffer won the 200-yard freestyle relay by just four tenths of a second with a time of 1:25 flat.

The Dragons return to action tomorrow when go down to Baltimore to face Loyola (Md.), Seton Hall and Lafayette.