Bucknell University Athletics
Bison Men In Fourth Place After Day One of PL Swimming and Diving Championships
2/24/2005 7:00:00 AM | Men's Swimming and Diving
Feb. 24, 2005
LEWISBURG, Pa. - After securing two relay wins and one individual gold medal, the Bucknell women's swimming and diving team is out to the early lead at the Patriot League Championships, Thursday night at Kinney Natatorium. The Bison women put 227 points on the board on the first day of competition, 72 points ahead of Navy in second place. The Bucknell men also had a good start to the three-day event, sitting comfortably in fourth place with 172 points. In a tight race up front, the Bison are only nine points from third place and 18 points from second.
The Bison men earned two bronze medals on day one with Jake Thieman nabbing third place in the 50 free in 21.09, and the team of Thieman, Ian Rawhauser, Grant Steadman and John Peterman taking third in the 200 free relay in 1:23.38, the sixth-best mark in Bison history.
The team of Mark Kretzer, William Schilling, Matt Crandell and Rawhauser managed a fourth-place showing in the 400 medley relay with a season-best time of 3:22.99. The time moves the Bison foursome to second-place in the Bison record books, .06 seconds short of the school record.
The Bison got the majority of their points in the 50 free with five athletes adding points to the Bucknell total. After Thieman, Rawhauser placed sixth (21.29), Steadman took seventh (21.32), Peterman earned eighth (21.34), and Brad Bennett nabbed 10th place (21.26), second in the consolation final.
Also scoring points for the Bison were Todd Bauer (4:36.26) with a sixth place finish in the 500 free followed by Joseph Metcalf (4:41.27) in twelfth in the event. John Hoffman added to the Bison total with a seventh-place finish in the 200 IM (1:54.70) while Adam Freeman finished fourth in the three-meter dive with a school-record total of 466.15.
The Bison women started off the meet with a bang by winning the gold medal in the 200-yard freestyle relay. The team of Alison Faux, Mary Krakowski, Lauren Reed and Rebecca Scheffter set a new school, meet, league and pool record with a time of 1:34.88. The record-breaking continued in the 400 medley relay with school, meet, league and pool records being set by Lectie Altman, Jamie Flick, Krakowski and Scheffter with a time of 3:47.48.
Scheffter won yet another gold medal with an individual win the 50 free. Scheffter clocked a time of 23.81, a personal-best as well as the third-best time in Bison history, to edge out Army's PageCarol Clark by just sixth one-hundreths of a second. Three more Bison followed Scheffter with top ten performances with Krakowski in third (23.90), Faux in fifth (24.46), and Reed in seventh (24.57).
Laura Goeller swam a personal-best 2:07.86 in the 200 individual medley, good for fourth place. Jamie Flick also recorded a scoring finish with an eighth place showing in 2:12.96.
Carlyn Donley moved to third in the Bison record books and nabbed a ninth-place finish overall and first in the consolation final of the 500 free with a time of 5:01.49. The Bison went five-through-eight in the event final with Jackie Feinthel in fifth with a season-best time of 5:04.74, Leslie Rice in sixth in 5:06.88, Katalin Lyons in seventh in 5:07.09 and Kristen Skroski in eight in 5:13.65.
Action continues tomorrow morning with preliminary competitions going off at 10:30 a.m. The finals session will begin tomorrow evening at 6 p.m.
