Girls’s Swimming in 4th after Day Certainly one of Bucknell Invitational

RESULTS

LEWISBURG, Pa. –

Freshman Victoria Castro wrote her identify into the No. 4 spot in two completely different Bucknell top-10 lists, and the Bison ladies’s swimming and diving staff is in fourth place after the primary of three days of the Bucknell Invitational at Kinney Natatorium.

Bucknell’s 249 factors are solely 32.5 behind third-place Fordham. Brown raced to the early lead with 572.5 factors, properly forward of second-place Delaware with 416. Behind the Bison are UMBC (197), Davidson (183), and Seton Hall (115).

In the primary occasion of the night session, Castro swam the lead leg of the 200-yard freestyle relay, which posted the fourth-best time in staff historical past (1:33.02) in a fourth-place end. That mark is simply .32 off the college file. Sara Ketron, Jennifer Bolden, and Kyla Kelly adopted Castro. Bucknell’s B relay additionally carried out properly, with Virginia Hastings, Kennedy Deveaux, Ashley Piacentino, and Natalia Gajecki ending sixth in 1:34.72. Brown set the pool file within the occasion with a 1:30.97.

Castro got here again later to complete fourth in a quick 50 free. Her time of 23.27 can be fourth-best in staff historical past and never far off the college file, set final yr by Ketron on the Patriot League Championships. Ketron (seventeenth) and Bolden (twenty first) additionally scored for the Bison.

The first particular person occasion of the night time was the five hundred free, and star sophomore Clara Renner led Bucknell with a fifth-place end in 4:53.48. Kelly Byrne additionally made the A Final and completed seventh in 4:55.91, which is simply .33 exterior the highest 10. Sydney Dettmann received the B Final and positioned ninth, and Tessa Feld additionally scored with a Nineteenth-place end.

Hastings was the highest Bison within the 200 particular person medley, ending seventh in 2:04.46. Kelly truly went sooner within the B Final. Her time of two:03.78 would have been good for sixth place within the A Final, however she settled for Tenth-place factors. Sydney Jee (18th) and Deveaux (twenty first) additionally scored within the 200 IM.

Freshmen Dea Mielenz (18th, 207.10) and Ruby Olliffe (twenty third) each scored on the 3-meter diving board.

The three-day meet continues on Saturday with prelims beginning at 10 a.m. and finals at 6 p.m.