Girls’s Swimming Cruises to Double Twin Victories

GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Randolph College males’s swimming workforce traveled all the way down to Greensboro for a double twin meet in opposition to Greensboro College and Columbia College (S.C.) on Saturday afternoon. The WildCats swept the meet with a 151-18 win over the Pride and a 146-56 win over the Koalas. 

The meet opened with the 200-yard medley relay during which Randolph swam two groups. The A workforce of Katelyn Spuchesi, Taylor Eshelman, Kaitlyn Heckman, and Rio Bucy completed in first place with a time of two:05.97. The B workforce of Taylor-Paige Kitts, Maddie Dyl, Alaura Arringdale, and Katie Scifres positioned third in 2:27.62.

Kaitya Zaitsev and Scifres claimed first and second place within the 1000 yard free with Zaitsev time being 12:47.28 and Scifres in 12:59.13. Bucy and Dyl have been the one two to swim the 200 yard free. Bucy touched the wall first in 2:17.64 and Dyl, second, in 2:35.91. 

The 100-yard again noticed Heckman get second in 1:10.58 and Kitts in fourth with a 1:22.72. Arringdale got here out on high in a two-women race that was tight within the 100-yard breast with a time of 1:21.22 simply over a second quicker than her opponent. Spuchesi, additionally a duo race within the 200-yard fly, got here in second with a time of two:30.37.

Spuchesi bounced again within the 50-yard free to complete over six seconds forward of the second place finisher in 27.65. Eshelman took second within the 100-yard free in 59.13. Another Randolph swim-off within the 200-yard again the place Bucy obtained first in 2:35.32 and Kitts in second with 2:51.27 as the one two swimmers to compete.

In the 200-yard breast, Arringdale was second in 2:59.21 and Dyl obtained third in 3:20.53. Zaitsev and Scifres as soon as once more solely confronted one another within the 500-yard free. It was shut, however Zaitsev obtained there first in 6:17.37 and Scifres in second in 6:17.58. Heckman was first within the 100-yard fly in 1:07.25.

In the 200-yard IM, Eshelman got here out on high in 2:31.83. Closing out the meet, was the 200-yard free relay. Randolph had two workforce compete, the place the A workforce (Heckman, Bucy, Spuchesi, and Eshelman) positioned first in 1:51.58 and the B workforce (Arringdale, Scifres, Zaitsev, and Kitts) positioned third in 2:08.81.

The WildCats are again within the pool when the workforce travels to Hampton, Va. for the Yellow Jacket Invitational hosted by Randolph-Macon from Nov. 21-23.