Swimming falters at New Mexico State
LAS CRUCES, N.M. – The Northern Colorado swimming & diving team ran into a tough New Mexico State team on Saturday afternoon and lost its third straight dual of the year, falling 174-110 to the Aggies.
The Bears won three events on the day as junior Sara Moldenhauer won the one-meter diving, sophomore Courtney Van Oost won the 200 IM and the 200 free relay was victorious.
Moldenhauer scored 232.28 points on the board, while Van Oost touched the wall in 2:13.17, a season-best time by over two seconds. The quartet of sophomore Gina Riggle, freshman Jessica Reed-Baum, junior Kira Alger and freshman Brenna Boese combined to swim a 1:39.58 for another season-best time.
Moldenhauer also placed second on the three-meter board after scoring 238.73.
Riggle posted the 10th-best time in school history in the 100 butterfly, finishing second in 59.70.
Freshman Casey Wolter, swimming her first collegiate 1000 yard freestyle, finished third with a time of 10:59.13, while freshman Gina Cernohous and Kellie Burke were right behind her in fourth and fifth.
Alger led a trio of Bears to the finish in the 200 free, finishing second with a time of 1:59.52 taking 0.38 off her previous season best. Sophomores Alicen Fair and Hannah Halstrom were behind her in 2:01.16 and 2:05.56, respectively. Alger also placed second in the 100 free after touching the wall in 54.55, while Halstrom was third in the 500 free with her season-best time of 5:23.22.
Senior Sammy Leonard also posted a season-best time, finishing second in the 100 back with a clocking of 1:00.83. Freshman Melissa Tillman (1:02.10) and sophomore Jamie Byrne (1:02.69) were right behind her in second and third.
In the 100 breaststroke, sophomore Renee Stephens placed third in 1:10.15, while freshman Jasmine Fryrear was third in the 200 butterfly with her time of 2:20.17 and Riggle timed a season-best 24.77 in the 50 free for a second-place finish. Stephens also came back to swim a 2:33.59 for third in the 200 breast.
Freshmen Hannah Abelein and Boese were third and fourth, respectively, in the 200 back after timing 2:08.76 and 2:13.75. Abelein dropped her career-best time by almost a second, which she established earlier in the week at New Mexico.
The Bears return home to host Northern Arizona on Nov. 11 at the Butler-Hancock pool with events beginning at 5 pm.
