Hornets Earn Clear Sweep In Battle Of The Burg

Lynchburg, Va. — The University of Lynchburg males’s and ladies’s swim groups confirmed out for senior night time, incomes wins throughout the board towards Liberty and Southern Virginia within the Battle of the Burg on Friday night time on the Liberty Natatorium.

The males’s squad claimed wins over Liberty (154-108) and Southern Virginia (209-44) whereas the ladies’s group took down Southern Virginia, 179-76. The meet opened with the ladies’s 200-yard medley relay, the place Lynchburg swept the highest two spots.

The A relay of Abigail Schneider, Gracie Maughan, Regan Leach, and Sophia Schorr touched first in 1:51.84, adopted intently by the B relay of Eliza Fleenor, Kailen Craddock, Sophia DaCruz, and Sienna Schmeck in 1:54.96. On the lads’s aspect, Lynchburg additionally claimed the highest place within the 200-yard medley relay, as Henry Brooks, Ryan Bambrick, Owen Howery, and Tyler Caten completed in 1:36.74, setting an early tone for the night.

Distance occasions proved to be a serious energy. Lilly Pifer received the ladies’s 1000-yard freestyle with a time of 11:09.58, whereas Charlotte Grieve added one other robust end in second. Jackson Holsten dominated the lads’s 1000-yard freestyle, successful decisively in 9:47.01, with Adam Fisher additionally contributing a strong efficiency for the Hornets. Holsten later adopted up with high finishes within the 100-yard and 200-yard breastroke occasions.

In the middle-distance and dash occasions, Lynchburg continued to rack up victories. Schmeck received the ladies’s 100-yard backstroke, and Maughan captured first place within the girls’s 100-yard breaststroke. Charlotte Grieve led a Lynchburg sweep of the highest two spots within the girls’s 200-yard butterfly, with Lindsay Hanks ending second. Connor Marshall earned a win within the males’s 200-yard butterfly, whereas Sophia Schorr and Sydney Weeks went one-two within the girls’s 50-yard freestyle.

Brooks led the best way within the 50-yard freestyle as Lynchburg took all three of the highest spots within the occasion. Schmeck earned one other victory within the 100-yard freestyle, then Franco Gastaldi Fossat took first on the lads’s aspect within the 100-yard freestyle. Brooks got here again shortly thereafter for the 200-yard backstroke and touched first in 1:57.20.

Sydney Weeks paced the competitors within the 500-yard freestyle, whereas Maughan and Fleenor adopted behind in second and third, respectively. Pifer obtained one other first-place end within the 100-yard butterfly, adopted intently behind by Grieve who positioned second.

The Hornets closed the meet with robust efforts within the particular person medley occasions and the freestyle relays. Abigail Schneider received the ladies’s 400-yard IM in 4:52.29, whereas Logan Page claimed the lads’s 400-yard IM title in 4:12.89. Then, Lynchburg’s A relays received each the lads’s and ladies’s 200-yard freestyle occasions to complete the night time. 

Next up for the Hornets are the ODAC Championships, going down in Greensboro, N.C. from Wednesday, Feb. 11 by means of Saturday, Feb. 14.

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