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OFFICIAL ATHLETICS SITE OF UW-STEVENS POINT
Grant Moser

UWSP Men Win Point Invite, Women Fourth

1/19/2019 10:10:00 PM

STEVENS POINT, Wis. - The UW-Stevens Point men's swimming and diving team prevailed with the win at the annual Point Invite following Saturday's events.  The men recorded a score of 1,244.5 while the women finished in fourth with a score of 518.5. 
 
Results
 
Alec Jeffers (Green Bay, Wis. /Bay Port) pocketed another victory in the 200-yard backstroke.  The freshman earned a time of 1:57.62. 
 
Grant Moser (St. Michael, Minn./St. Michael-Albertville) nabbed the 100-yard butterfly crown with a time of 50.90.  Teammate Zach Jorgenson followed up in the runner-up position with a time of 53.37.  Josh Gynther (Lagrange, Ga./Lagrange) earned a fifth-place finish with a time of 54.97. 
 
Jacob Aegerter (Cross Plains, Wis./Middleton) and Sam Young went one-two in the 400-yard IM.  The pair swam times of 4:17.80 and 4:18.34, both separating themselves a good time from the third-place swimmer. 
 
Aegerter, William Buhler (Racine, Wis./William Horlick), Moser and Reilly Donnellan (Neenah, Wis./Neenah) won the 200-yard medley relay.  The quartet earned a time of 1:35.67, two seconds faster than the runner-up team from UW-Eau Claire. 
 
Aegerter, Ryan McPherson (Inver Grove Heights, Minn./Tartan), Matthew Inserra (Mount Prospect, Ill./Prospect) and Donnellan earned a runner-up position in the 400-yard freestyle relay with a time of 3:13.57. 
 
Donnellan made an appearance in the 50-yard freestyle.  The senior freestyler finished with a time of 21.40, good for second place.  Teammates Moser, Aegerter and Riley Patton (Madison, Wis./Memorial) went four-five-six with times of 21.97, 22.17 and 22.21. 
 
Ryan McPherson (Inver Grove Heights, Minn./Tartan) tabbed the runner-up position in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:48.22.  Teammates Payton Kilian (Coon Rapids, Minn./Spring Lake Park) and Michael Mills (Fox Point, Wis./Nicolet) went six-seven with times of 1:51.09 and 1:51.12, respectively. 
 
William Buhler (Racine, Wis./William Horlick) earned third-place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 59.30.  Teammate Mitchel Hudrick (Pleasant Prairie, Wis. /Kenosha Tremper) finished in fifth place with a time of 1:02.86. 
 
On the women's side, Sydney Richetto (Wausau, Wis./East) and Maggie Liska (North St. Paul, Minn. /Mahtomedi) went five-six in the 200-yard freestyle.  The pair earned times of 2:03.04 and 2:03.22, each swimmer improving upon their preliminary times. 
 
Liska and Richetto swam the first two legs of the 400-yard freestyle relay with Ava Magee (Oregon, Wis./Oregon) and Kyra Goedken (Green Bay, Wis. /Ashwaubenon).  The quartet earned a fifth-place finish with a time of 3:50.12. 
 
Over at the diving platform, Jess Posch (New Lenox, Ill./Lincoln-Way Central) led the Pointers with a sixth-place finish in the three-meter dive with a score of 332.70.  She also earned a ninth-place finish in the one-meter dive with a score of 340.70. 
 
Ava Magee (Oregon, Wis./Oregon) finished among the top-10 with a seventh-place finish in the 100-yard butterfly.  She touched a time of 1:03.69.
 
The 200-yard medley relay quartet of Kaylee Benson (Elk River, Minn./Elk River), Breanna Ruffolo (Manitowoc, Wis./Lincoln), Magee and Liska earned a ninth-place finish with a time of 1:58.02.
 
Libby Dammen (Milton, Wis./Milton) rounded out the top-10 with a 10th-place finish in the 400-yard IM.  The freshman earned a time of 5:06.41, shaving four seconds off her preliminary time. 
 
Kaylee Benson (Elk River, Minn./Elk River) finished in 10th-place in the 200-yard backstroke.  She touched a time of 2:21.13. 
 
Breanna Ruffolo (Manitowoc, Wis./Lincoln) earned a 12th-place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:14.29.
 
Up next, the Pointers head to La Crosse, Wis. for a dual with WIAC conference foe UW-La Crosse on Saturday (Jan. 26).  The first race is slated to begin at 1:00 p.m. 
 
 
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