Girls’s Swimming and Diving Strikes Into Third Place After Second Day of Bucknell Invitational; Units Two High-10 Instances in Relays

LEWISBURG, Pa. – The Bucknell girls’s swimming and diving group moved up into third place after the second day of the Bucknell Invitational on the Kinney Natatorium on Saturday. Junior Kelly Byrne etched her title within the Bucknell’s all time top-10 checklist for the 400 IM, incomes a second-place end within the occasion, and the Bison earned two top-10 occasions in relays.

Bucknell began the day with a top-10 time within the 200 medley relay as Natalia Gajecki, Hanna Bingley, Tori Castro and Sara Ketron earned 38 factors with a fifth-place end in 1:42.87. The time was good for ninth all-time within the occasion. Delaware set a pool document with a time of 1:40.36. 

Byrne and Clara Renner adopted it up with second and third-place finishes within the 400 IM to earn 28 factors. Byrne’s time of 4:17.67 was good for third on Bucknell’s top-10 checklist. Renner was proper behind her with a time of 4:18.56 to gather 27 factors. Renner owns the second-best time within the occasion at 4:16.85, which she set final season. Hastings collected 13 factors within the B-final, and Tessa Feld gained the C-final to earn 9 factors.

Tori Castro took 16 factors within the 100 fly, and her time of 55.81 was simply three-hundredths of a second off a top-10 mark after setting two top-10 occasions yesterday.

Jennifer Bolden took seventh within the 200 free in 1:50.80 to earn 23 factors for the Bison. Sydney Dettmann and Kyla Kelly took tenth and eleventh within the occasion.

In the 100 breast, Bucknell went 11-15 to gather 70 factors within the occasion. Bingley took eleventh (1:04.41) adopted by Samantha Benzija (1:04.64), Kennedy DeVeaux (1:04.91), Byrne (1:05.06) and Sydney Jee (1:05.51).

Sofia Burns took ninth within the 100 again to take 20 factors. She completed in 55.94, simply six-hundredths of a second off of her top-10 time. Alivia Wainright took twelfth in 56.23 to earn 15 factors and Kelly took fifteenth in 57.30 to earn 12 factors.

Bucknell set one other top-10 time within the 800 free relay. Renner, Dettmann, Hastings and Bolden took third place with a time of seven:24.73. The time was good for eighth all-time, and it earned the Bison 42 factors within the occasion.

Bucknell sits in third with 640 factors, simply forward of Fordham at 626.50. Brown prolonged its lead at 1,340 factors and Delaware sits comfortably in second with 991 factors.

The Bucknell Invitational wraps up its ultimate day on Sunday as groups are set to compete in prelims at 10 a.m. and finals at 5 p.m. within the Kinney Natatorium.