STEVENS POINT, Wis. - The UW-Stevens Point swimming and diving teams kicked off the 2018-2019 swim campaign in a conference dual match up on Saturday afternoon against UW-Eau Claire.  The men won the dual with a score of 192 to UW-Eau Claire's 104.  The women fell short with a score of 101 to UW-Eau Claire's 199. 
 
Results
 
Payton Kilian (Coon Rapids, Minn./Spring Lake Park) and Grant Moser (St. Michael, Minn./St. Michael-Albertville) went one-two in the 200-yard freestyle.  The pair swam times of 1:48.33 and 1:49.68. 
 
Alec Jeffers (Green Bay, Wis. /Bay Port), Will Buhler, Grant Moser (St. Michael, Minn./St. Michael-Albertville) and Reilly Donnellan (Neenah, Wis./Neenah) won the 200-yard medley relay. The group out swam other competitors with a time of 1:37.57, three seconds faster than the second-place team. 
 
Moser also picked up a win in the 100-yard butterfly.  He finished with a time of 52.05. 
 
Jeffers picked up a pair of wins the 100- and 200-yard backstroke in the dual.  He clocked in times of 55.82 and 2:01.40, respectively. 
 
Will Buhler, Sam Young and Ivan Newham (Lino Lakes, Minn./Centennial) dominated the top-three spots of the 100-yard breaststroke.  The trio swam times of 1:01.53, 1:01.54, and 1:02.48. 
 
Young also picked up a pair of wins in the 200-yard breaststroke and 200-yard IM with times of 2:15.19 and 1:59.75, respectively. 
 
NCAA Championships veteran Jacob Aegerter (Cross Plains, Wis./Middleton) won the 1,000- and 500-yard freestyle for the men.  He finished with a time of 10:23.01 and 5:00.35, 15 and nine seconds faster than the second place finishers from UW-Eau Claire.   
 
Reilly Donnellan (Neenah, Wis./Neenah), Matthew Inserra (Mount Prospect, Ill./Prospect), Aegerter and Moser won the 200-yard freestyle relay.  The quartet clocked in a time of 1:26.34. 
 
Ryan McPherson (Inver Grove Heights, Minn./Tartan), Aegerter, and Zach Jorgenson won the top-three spots of the 200-yard butterfly.  The group finished with times of 2:00.56, 2:01.02 and 2:03.86.
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Donnellan pocketed a second-place finish in the 50-yard freestyle.  He swam a time of 21.48, just seconds away from a first-place finish. 
 
Brandon Donaldson (Andalusia, Ala./Andalusia) and Steve Novinska finished in third and fourth in the one-meter diving event.  The pair finished with scores of 140.15 and 135.15.  Donaldson also finished in third in the three-meter event with a score of 140.35. 
 
Freshman Anna Pilecky (DeForest, Wis./DeForest) picked up a pair of wins in her first dual meet in the 1,000- and 500-yard freestyle events.  She swam a pair of times of 11:04.68 and 5:27.45. 
 
Jess Posch (New Lenox, Ill./Lincoln-Way Central) won the three-meter diving event with a score of 193.55.  She also placed fourth in the one-meter event with a score of 187.87.   
 
Second-team all-conference selection Anna O'Malley (St. Charles, Ill./East) and Libby Dammen (Milton, Wis./Milton) went one-two in the 200-yard butterfly.  The pair touched times of 2:19.31 and 2:25.58.  O'Malley also picked up another win in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 1:00.30.    
 
The team of Kaylee Benson (Elk River, Minn./Elk River), Brenna Ruffolo, Anna O'Malley (St. Charles, Ill./East) and Maggie Liska (North St. Paul, Minn. /Mahtomedi) opened the 2018-19 campaign with a second-place finish in the 200-yard medley relay.  The quartet timed in a time of 1:56.24, out-swimming their seeded time. 
 
Liska also earned a second-place finish in the 50-yard freestyle.  She finished with a time of 26.07. 
 
Ava Magee (Oregon, Wis./Oregon) touched a third-place finish in the 100-yard backstroke.  She clocked a time of 1:04.66. 
 
Ruffolo earned a third-place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:13.88. 
 
Sydney Richetto (Wausau, Wis./East) finished in fourth place in the 200-yard freestyle.  She finished with a time of 2:06.33, three seconds separating her from the first place finisher.

Last week at the Purple-Gold Meet, the UWSP swimming and diving team held a food drive and donated 391.6 pounds of food to The Cupboard.
 
The Pointers take an off week as they prepare of a tri-meet dual against Minnesota State-Mankato and Gustavus Adolphus on Nov. 3.  The first race slated to begin at 1:00 p.m.