ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE SWIMMING
Saturday, January 31, 2004

Scranton Downs Etown Swimming, Women Fall 110-87, Men Fall 104-51

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. --- Elizabethtown College's women's swimming team dropped to 6-9 in dual meets in 2003-04, and the Blue Jay men's swimming team fell to 1-12 in dual meets as Etown fell to the University of Scranton at home Saturday afternoon. Scranton won the women's meet 110-87, and the visiting Royals took the men's meet 104-51.

The lone individual event winner for the Etown women was senior Christina Blaha (Killingworth, CT/Haddam-Killingworth), who captured the 200 yard breaststroke in a team season-best time of 2:32.37, beating the closest Scranton finisher by over four and a half seconds.

Although no Blue Jay men won individual events, sophomore Brian Thudium (Harleysville, PA/Souderton) set a new program season-best time in the 200 yard freestyle, placing second in 1:55.71, as well as in the 100 yard freestyle with another second place finish of 53.17 seconds. Timothy Matlack (Burlington, NJ/Holy Cross) set a new personal and team season-best time in the 200 yard butterfly with a second place finish in 2:32.28, and Jason Rose (Ft. Washington, PA/Upper Dublin) set a new team season best in the 200 yard backstroke by finishing second in 2:18.18.

Etown will return to action at home Tuesday, February 3 at 6:00 p.m. against Middle Atlantic Conference rival Widener. It will be the Blue Jays' final dual meet of the 2003-04 season, before the MAC Championships begin February 13.

At Elizabethtown, Pa.
Women's Score: Scranton 110, Elizabethtown 87
Event Winners (all distances in yards):
200 medley relay: Palmiotto/Jengo/Williams/Kline (S) 1:56.61
1000 free: Smith (S) 11:02.68
200 free: Keeler (S) 2:04.85
50 free: Pisani (S) 26.95
400 I.M.: Best (S) 4:55.53
200 fly: Liberatori (S) 2:23.37
100 free: Keeler (S) 58.90
200 back: Best (S) 2:19.09
500 free: Appel (S) 5:37.56
200 breast: Christina Blaha (E) 2:32.37
200 free relay: Cindy Ippolito/Tatiana Roll/Sara Luisi/Stacey Limbach (E) 1:56.86

Men's Score: Scranton 110, Elizabethtown 51
Event Winners (all distances in yards):
200 medley relay: Letini/Bone/Lentini/McKenzie (S) 1:50.60
1000 free: Mulhall (S) 11:10.57
200 free: Beyer (S) 1:53.89
50 free: Ciibin (S) 24.17
400 I.M.: Connors (S) 4:37.28
200 fly: Partridge (S) 2:12.92
100 free: Beyer (S) 52.89
200 back: Mullin (S) 2:11.82
500 free: Mulhall (S) 5:18.63
200 breast: Schlanger (S) 2:35.52
200 free relay: Jason Pino/Jason Rose/Geoff Betz/Brian Thudium (E) 1:38.07