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Maddie Taylor

UWSP Swimming Suffers Rare Dual Defeat

1/26/2019 9:53:00 PM

LA CROSSE, Wis. – For the first time since 2007, the UW-Stevens Point swimming and diving teams suffered a dual loss on both the men's and women's side.  The men fell with a score of 118.5 to UW-La Crosse's 122.5.  The women fell with a score of 96 to 141. 
 
Results
 
Maggie Liska (North St. Paul, Minn. /Mahtomedi), Kyra Goedken (Green Bay, Wis. /Ashwaubenon), Ava Magee (Oregon, Wis./Oregon) and Sydney RIchetto won the 400-yard freestyle relay with a time of 3:46.29. 
 
Anna Pilecky (DeForest, Wis./DeForest) won the 1,000-yard freestyle crown in a convincing fashion.  She touched in a time of 10:40.30, 46.51 seconds faster than teammate Haley Dees (Normal, Ill. /West), who was the runner-up.  Dees earned her runner-up position with a time of 11:26.81.  Pilecky also won the 500-yard freestyle crown with a time of 5:17.78 and Dees followed her with a time of 5:33.74.  
 
Maddie Taylor (Rockford, Ill./East) earned her first collegiate win in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:39.65.  Senior Hallee Fritsch followed in the runner-up position with a time of 2:42.16. 
 
Kaylee Benson (Elk River, Minn./Elk River) and Hannah Flak (Wittenberg, Wis./Wittenberg-Birnamwood) earned top-five finishes in the 200-yard backstroke.  Benson earned a time of 2:18.89, good for a second-place finish.  Flak finished in third with a time of 2:19.70, good for a third-place finish. 
 
Benson also opened up the 400-yard medley relay Brenna Ruffolo, Ava Magee (Oregon, Wis./Oregon) and Sydney Richetto (Wausau, Wis./East) finish in second in the 400-yard medley relay.  The quartet earned a time of 4:16.21. 
 
Richetto picked up a second-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 2:02.83.
 
Liska and Goedken earned top-5 finishes in the 50-yard freestyle.  Liska finished in third place with a time of 25.92.  Goedken finished in fifth place with a time of 26.35.   
 
Libby Dammen (Milton, Wis./Milton) and Taylor Pehrson (Hanover, Minn./St. Michael-Albertville High School) went three-four in the 200-yard butterfly.  The freshman-senior duet went 2:21.31 and 2:27.64. 
 
Jess Posch (New Lenox, Ill./Lincoln-Way Central) earned a fifth-place finish in the one-meter diving event with a score of 191.80.  Alexia Beecher (Black Creek, Wis./Shiocton) followed her in sixth place with a score of 140.75.  Posch and Beecher also earned the same finishes in the three-meter diving event, finishing with scores of 220.95 and 149.55. 
 
On the men's side, Ryan McPherson (Inver Grove Heights, Minn./Tartan) won the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 1:56.51, 5.62 seconds faster than runner-up Zach Jorgenson.  McPherson also earned a third-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:48.15. 
 
Sam Young won the 200-yard IM crown with a time of 1:57.25, 3.27 seconds faster than the UW-La Crosse finisher.  Young also finished in second with a time of 2:10.93 in the 200-yard breaststroke.    
 
Jacob Aegerter (Cross Plains, Wis./Middleton) won the 1,000-meter freestyle, also in a convincing fashion.  He earned a time of 10:10.91.  Nate Somers and Michael Mills (Fox Point, Wis./Nicolet) went three-four with times of 10:32.19 and 10:33.10.  Aegerter also earned a second-place finish in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:52.63.    
 
Alec Jeffers (Green Bay, Wis. /Bay Port) finished in second place in the 200-yard backstroke, touching a time of 1:58.06. 
 
Reilly Donnellan (Neenah, Wis./Neenah) touched a time of 21.37, good for a second-place finish in the 50-yard freestyle.  Donnellan also placed fourth in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 49.95. 
 
Jeffers, William Buhler (Racine, Wis./William Horlick), Ryan McPherson (Inver Grove Heights, Minn./Tartan) and Matthew Inserra (Mount Prospect, Ill./Prospect) teamed up in the 400-yard medley relay for a second-place finish.  The group of four touched a time of 3:32.94. 
 
Grant Moser (St. Michael, Minn./St. Michael-Albertville) earned a second-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:45.54. Moser also earned a runner-up position in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 47.78. 
 
Cal Straub (Van Dyne, Wis./Appleton West), Steven Novinska (Greendale, Wis./Greendale), Maxwell Schauer and Benjamin Schutt (McFarlane, Wis./McFarlane ) went two-three-four-five in the three-meter diving event.  The four freshmen earned scores of 185.90, 159.55, 156.75 and 102.00.  Straub, Schauer, Novinska and Schutt went two-three-four-five in the one-meter diving event, finishing with scores of 164.65, 158.75, 122.10 and 119.15.
 
The Pointers head to Milwaukee, Wis. to take on Milwaukee on Saturday (Feb. 2) at 1:00 p.m.    
 
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