Elizabethtown College Swimming
Saturday, January 27, 2001

BLUE JAYS SWEEP SUSQUEHANNA, WOMEN WIN 104-94, MEN WIN 103-78

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. --- Elizabethtown's took a pair of wins against Middle Atlantic Conference rival Susquehanna at home Saturday. The Etown women won 104-94 to improve to 5-8 overall, and the men defeated the Crusaders 103-78 to improve to 3-8.

The Etown women surged to a 15-2 lead after the first event when the Blue Jay 400 yard medley relay teams finished first and second. Stacey Benton (Duncansville, PA/Hollidaysburg), Christina Blaha (Killingsworth, CT/Haddam-Killingworth), Brooke Knepper (Williamsport, MD/Williamsport) and Sarah Bradley (Mt. Pleasant, PA/Mt. Pleasant) won the 400 medley relay for Etown in 4:21.08, nine seconds better than Elizabethtown's previous season-best time.

Knepper immediately followed that performance with a win in the 1650 freestyle in 19:18.89. Lindsay Texter (Lititz, PA/Lititz) won the next event for Etown, the 200 freestyle, in 2:04.00. Bradley extended Etown's winning streak to four events with a win in the 50 freestyle. Her time of 25.69 set a new team season-best mark.

Susquehanna won the 200 individual medley, but Knepper and Bradley struck back for the Blue Jays with wins in the 200 butterfly and the 100 freestyle, respectively. Knepper won in 2:28.25, and Bradley set yet another team season-best in the 100 free with 56.66 seconds.

Susquehanna won the next event in the 200 backstroke, and Texter won the event immediately following, the 500 freestyle, in 5:33.67 for Etown.

At that point, the Etown women clinched a victory in the meet, and the Blue Jays ran exhibitions in the final two events. However, Blaha's exhibition time of 2:35.84 in the 200 breaststroke eclipsed the previous season-best time by three seconds.

The men's team had an equally successful day, as Etown's 400 medley relay team of Casey Moore (Sinking Spring, PA/Wilson), Jon Fortin (West Hartford, CT/William R. Hall), Paul Contino (Flourtown, PA/Plymouth Whitemarsh) and Scott English (Southbury, CT/Pomperaug) won in a new season-best time of 3:53.51 to take an opening 11-6 lead over the Crusaders.

Eric Bicocchi (Hatfield, PA/North Penn) won the 1650 freestyle for Etown in 18:34.26, and Moore followed with a win in 1:47.28 in the 200 freestyle. English followed up those performances with a win in the 50 freestyle in 27.87, and Contino won the 200 individual medley and the 200 butterfly back-to-back in times of 2:10.96 and 2:16.29, respectively.

English then won the 100 freestyle for the Blue Jays in 51.64, Bicocchi captured the 200 backstroke in a team season-best time of 2:12.39, and Moore won the 500 freestyle in 4:57.98, besting his closest opponent by almost 27 seconds. At that point, Elizabethtown ran exhibitions in the final events with a Susquehanna victory mathematically impossible.

Etown returns to action on the road against Scranton Saturday, February 3 for a 1:00 p.m. meet.

At Elizabethtown, Pa.
Complete Elizabethtown Women's Results
Elizabethtown 104, Susquehanna 94
400 Medley Relay: 1. Benton, Blaha, Knepper, Bradley 4:21.08; 2. Thomas, Cumor, Ressler, Sadak 4:38.10
1650 Free: 1. Knepper 19:18.89; 4. Hahn 21:00.01; 6. Reeve 22:16.61
200 Free: 1. Texter 2:04.00; 3. Hyde 2:12.11; 6. Bachman 2:18.38
50 Free: 1. Bradley 25.69; 3. Keefer 27.29; 4. Ressler 27.59
200 IM: 2. Blaha 2:25.74; 4. Thomas 2:30.64; 5. Schadler 2:32.31
200 Fly: 1. Knepper 2:28.25; 2. Schadler 2:39.28; 4. Ellis 3:04.78
100 Free: 1. Bradley 56.66; 3. Keefer 59.69; 6. Sadak 1:02.73
200 Back: 2. Benton 2:27.23; 4. Thomas 2:28.82
500 Free: 1. Texter 5:33.67; 3. Hyde 5:52.84; 6. Hahn 6:10.93
200 Breast: Ex. Blaha 2:35.84; Ex. 2:44.54; Ex. Barnes 2:59.34
400 Free Relay: Ex. Texter, Ressler, Sadak, Keefer 4:00.33; Ex. Why, Higurashi, Yennawati, Hahn 4:42.14; Ex. Ellis, Schadler, Bachman, Reeve (DQ)

Complete Elizabethtown Men's Results
Elizabethtown 103, Susquehanna 78
400 Medley Relay: 1. Moore, Fortin, Contino, English 3:53.51
1650 Free: 1. Bicocchi 18:34.26; 2. Rupp 20:51.12
200 Free: 1. Moore 1:47.28; 4. Hyde 2:03.56
50 Free: 1. English 22.87; 3. Ostrelich 24.32; 6. Pino 24.91
200 IM: 1. Contino 2:10.96; 2. Fortin 2:12.94
200 Fly: 1. Contino 2:16.29
100 Free: 1. English 51.64; 3. Ostrelich 55.08; 5. Hyde 56.27
200 Back: 1. Bicocchi 2:12.39; 3. Pino 2:27.73
500 Free: 1. Moore 4:57.98; 4. Rupp 6:06.47
200 Breast: Ex. Fortin 2:28.05
400 Free Relay: Ex. Bicocchi, Pino, Hyde, Ostrelich 3:41.76