VMI Splits with Pfeiffer

VMI won 10 of 15 events to defeat Pfeiffer, 157-118 in non-conference men’s swimming & diving action on Saturday afternoon at the Clark King Hall Pool.
 
Sophomore James Goodwillie won each of the three individual events he entered for VMI, including the 200 freestyle (1:50.38), 100 backstroke (55.10) and 400 individual medley (4:23.13).  He was joined by several teammates who each won an event, including sophomores Matt Dale (1000 freestyle-10:41.31), Matt Elliott (50 backstroke-26.15) and Dallas Disbro (1-meter diving-113.25).  Freshmen John Covert and Andrew Nelson also took home first-place finishes, coming in the 100 butterfly (55.72) and 500 freestyle (5:10.44), respectively.
 
The Keydet team of sophomore Mark Schumacher, and freshmen Hank Purvis, Chris Dreikorn and Nelson also combined to take the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:34.06. 
 
The Falcon team of senior David Angell, junior Kevin Parks, freshman George Moreno and freshman Mark Franz, meanwhile, won the 400 medley relay with a 3:45.67 clocking.  Other Pfeiffer wins came from Moreno in the 50 (22.21) and 100 freestyle (49.16), Angell in the 50 breaststroke (29.43) and Parks in the 100 breaststroke (1:04.9).
 
The VMI men’s swimming & diving team returns to action on Saturday, competing in a quad-meet at St. Peter’s.




Pfeiffer won 11 of 15 events to score a 111-80 win over VMI in non-conference women’s swimming & diving action on Saturday afternoon at the Clark King Hall Pool.
 
The Keydets, though, netted a pair of varsity relay records, while a rat record also fell on the afternoon.  The team of freshman Pin-Fen Chen, freshman Kim Wheeler, junior Chelsea Nugent and sophomore Veronica Lentsch swam a 4:59.66 in the 400 medley relay, while Nugent, freshman Glendon Robertson, Chen and Lentsch teamed for a 1:51.73 in the 200 freestyle relay, each of which set new school marks.  Chen also bested the school’s 100 backstroke record by a freshman, swimming a 1:11.73 to beat her own mark by nearly a second-and-a-half.
 
Nugent took home first-place finishes in the 100 freestyle (59.23) and 50 butterfly (28.88).  The Keydets also won the 50 backstroke when Chen touched the wall in 32.69, while junior Briana Allard won the 1-meter diving competition with a score of 141.53.
 
The Falcons were led by freshmen Yukina Onoda, Julianna Prim, Haley Carter and Samantha Maness, each of whom won multiple events.  Onoda took first in the 500 (5:36.61) and 1000 freestyle (12:14.26), while Prim did so in the 100 backstroke (1:00.66) and the 200 freestyle (1:53.64).  Carter won both the 50 (43.13) and 100 breaststroke (1:12.05), while Maness captured the 100 butterfly (1:06.93) and the 400 individual medley (4:55.77).
 
That foursome also took the 400 medley relay with a time of 4:10.58, while the team of Prim, senior Nicole DiVaccaro, Onoda and Manes rounded out the meet by winning the 200 freestyle relay in 1:47.21.
 
The VMI women’s swimming & diving team returns to action on Friday, competing in a quad-meet at New Jersey Tech.