Craver Supplies Top Highlight: 5th Place in 400 IM
SCRANTON, Pa. — Goucher earned 65 points this evening at the 2013 Landmark Conference Women's Swimming & Diving Championships, but remained in eighth place with a two-day total of 122 points.
Gophers Add 65 Points to Total, Remain in 8th Place
SCRANTON, Pa. — Goucher earned 65 points this evening at the 2013 Landmark Conference Women's Swimming & Diving Championships, but remained in eighth place with a two-day total of 122 points.
Nicole Craver (Spring Grove, Pa./Spring Grove Area), who placed sixth in the 200-yard individual medley on Friday, came back a day later and took fifth place in the 400 IM. She completed the event in 4:52.59.
The Gophers had two swimmers in the consolation finals of the 100 backstroke: Kellyn Brower (Glen Ridge, N.J./Glen Ridge) was clocked at 1:06.94, good for 15th place, and Lillian Eden (Ipswich, Mass./Westover) followed in 16th (1:08.96). Abbey Wegman (Knoxville, Tenn./Berean Christian) advanced to the consolation finals in the 200 freestyle and secured four points by finishing in 13th place (2:08.57).
Both of Goucher's entries in the two relays that were conducted today were awarded 22 points for finishing in eighth place. In the 200 medley relay, the foursome of Brower, Marykate Malone (Gales Ferry, Conn./Ledyard), Emmy Martin (Haddonfield, N.J./Haddonfield) and Craver recorded a combined time of 2:04.16, and in the 800 free relay, Rachel Lyon (Fallston, Md/The John Carroll School), Malone, Brower, Wegman completed the event in 8:50.29.