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Bourbonnais, Ill. – The Lewis University women's swimming team swept their double dual meet against Maryville and Olivet Nazarene on Saturday (Jan. 18) at the ONU Student and Recreation Center. The Flyers defeated Maryville, 219-23, and Olivet Nazarene, 134.5-127.5.
With the victories, the Flyers improve to 9-2 on the year and 3-1 against Great Lakes Valley Conference opponents.
"The squad scored a win over a good team in the closest meet of the year," Lewis head women's swimming coach
Roger Karns said. "There were several extremely close races and even a tie.
"That is a measure of the kind of meet it was."
Lewis opened the meet with a win in the 400-yard medley relay. Freshmen
Courtney Duy (Buckeye, Ariz./Millennium) and
Shannon Sullivan (Elmhurst, Ill./York Community), sophomore
Montana Clasby (Cedar Falls, Iowa/Cedar Falls) and senior
Caitlyn Scheirer (Washington, Ill./Washington Community) teamed up for a time of 3:59.76.
Sullivan also picked up first-place finishes in the 200-yard freestyle (1:55.55), 100-yard freestyle (43.29) and 500-yard freestyle (5:15.01) for the Flyers.
Clasby collected individual victories in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:06.88), 200-yard breaststroke (2:25.36), and 200-yard Individual Medley (2:12.32).
Scheirer won the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 2:15.26, while freshman
Kara Treacy (Corpus Christi, Texas/Flour Bluff) finished first in the 1000-yard freestyle (10:46.42).
Heading into the 400-yard freestyle relay tied with ONU, the Flyers were able to dig deep to get the first-place finish and win the meet. Junior
Cindy Jezuit (Wheaton, Ill./Wheaton North) teamed up with freshmen
Brittnie Dean (Ottawa, Ill./Ottawa Township),
Brittany Kamper (Orland Park, Ill./Sandburg) and Duy to finish first with a time of 3:37.85.
The Flyers return to Lewis Pool to host the University of Indianapolis on Saturday (Jan. 25) at 1 PM.