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February 12, 2010 Contact: Mike Wajerski, SID Forester Women in Second Place, Men in Third after Day One of MWC Championships
The first event to be contested in Friday evening's finals was the women's 200-freestyle relay. Freshman Kelsey Hoeper (Medford, Ore./South Medford) led off for the Foresters with a school record 50-freestyle time of 24.64 seconds and sophomore Ellen Stoehr (Lake Forest, Ill./Lake Forest), freshman Amber Kerrigan (Phoenix, Ariz./Xavier College Prep), and sophomore Emily Watts (Danville, Ind./Danville Community) brought home first place with a program record time of 1:39.24, nearly two seconds ahead of the runners-up from Grinnell. Records continued to fall in the 500-freestyle where freshman Becky Shaak (Vienna, Va./James Madison) broke her own school and conference mark with a pool record time of 5:03.55 and won by almost 13 seconds. The time was also significantly better than the NCAA B-Cut qualifying mark of 5:08.52. Sophomore Jennifer Steege (Hudson, Wis./Visitation) was third in the event in 5:18.96, sophomore Amy Finn (Horsham Pa./Archbishop Wood) fifth in 5:26.87, and junior Lisa Carpenter (Edina, Minn./Edina) eighth with a time of 5:38.11. Finn and Carpenter finished in 5:24.46 and 5:32.87, respectively, in the preliminaries earlier in the day. Forester freshmen Chris Wiatr (Long Grove, Ill./Stevenson) and Alex Marks (Oregon, Ill./Oregon) finished second and third, respectively, in the men's 500-freestlye. Wiatr's posted a finals time of 4:52.79 and Marks' 4:50.48 in the preliminaries ranks fourth in team history. Three of the Lake Forest swimmers that won the 200-freestyle relay placed in the top four in the 50-freestyle, led by Hoeper's victory in 24.89 seconds. Watts was the runner-up in 25.27 and Kerrigan fourth in 25.33. Hoeper was slightly faster (24.78) in the morning's preliminaries and Watts' prelim time of exactly 25 seconds was a career-best and improved her fifth-place spot in that event in team history. Freshmen Diego Ledesma (Chicago Ill./Lane Tech) and Michael Tunzi (Chicago, Ill./St. Patrick) reached the finals of the men's 50-freestlye where they placed seventh and eighth, respectively, in 22.84 and 22.91 seconds. They completed their preliminaries with slightly faster marks, Tunzi in 22.69 and Ledesma in 22.77. Three Forester women's divers finished among the top eight in Friday's 1-meter competition. Sophomore Jade Perkins (Denver, Colo./JK Mullen) led the way with a runner-up 367.40 points. Freshmen Samantha Gardner (Breckenridge, Colo./Summit) was fourth with 345.10 points and classmates Chandler Foster (Ypsilanti, Mich./Mercy) fifth with a score of 342.50. The final event of the evening was the 400-medley relay and the races could not have been much closer. Kerrigan, Shaak, Stoehr, and Hoeper finished in 4:05.09, just .08 seconds behind first-place Grinnell. The Forester men's team of Ledesma, Marks, junior Mike Mackin (Berwyn, Ill./Fenwick), and Tunzi claimed the squad's first victory of the meet with a time of 3:36.19, edging out Grinnell by .07 seconds. Mackin out-swam his Grinnell counterpart in the butterfly leg of the relay by 1.35 seconds and claimed his seventh career conference title. With 247 points, the Forester women trail Grinnell by just 14 and lead third-place Carroll University by 121. Lake Forest's men have 140 points, two more than Lawrence and 10 fewer than Monmouth. All three teams trail Grinnell's 279. Eight more events for each gender will be contested tomorrow and the final six on Sunday.
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