Women's Swimming & Diving | 12/5/2015 2:19:00 PM

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ITHACA, N.Y. -- Nazareth's men's swimming and diving team enjoyed a record-breaking day Saturday at the Bomber Invitational at Ithaca's Aquatic Pavilion. The Golden Flyers broke four more school records and narrowly missed a fifth as the Golden Flyers stood in sixth place in an 11-team field that includes Division I teams Cornell and LaSalle. Cornell leads the team scoring after the second day of competition with 1,472 points. Geneseo is second with 824. Nazareth has 440 points.

The Golden Flyers broke records in three relays: the 200 free relay, the 400 medley relay and the 800 free relay. The foursome of Gannon Connors, Matt Leverich, Sean Doyle and Dan Burke swam to a seventh-place finish in the 200 free relay with a record time of 1:27.97. Later on the team of Burke, Rob Coatsworth, Alex LaPoint and Leverich finished third in the 400 medley relay with a time of 3:30.26. Burke, Leverich, Connors and LaPoint teamed up in the 800 to post a third-place time of 7:05.16.

LaPoint also set a school record with a fifth-place finish in the 400 IM with a time of 4:08.39. Burke nearly broke his own record in the 100 backstroke as he placed second with a time of :50.98.

Other top finishers included LaPoint with a 13th place finish in the 200 butterfly (1:58.83); Leverich with a 17th place in the 200 freestyle (1:47.89); Coatsworth with a 17th place in the 100 breaststroke (1:00.95) and Zachary Fink, who was 14th in 3-meter diving (285.05).

In the women's meet, Nazareth is in ninth place with 300 points. Cornell and LaSalle are first and second respectively with 1,492.5 points and 773.5 points.

Kimberly Pedrotti had a strong showing for Nazareth in the 400-yard IM, earning an eighth-place finish with a time of 4:41.72. She also placed 13th in the 100 breaststroke (1:08.69) and swam on two productive relays. She was part of the 400 medley relay that finished eighth in 4:09.46. Elizabeth Carro, Erika Holland and Cameron Hess also competed.  Then in the 800 free relay Nazareth finished ninth with a time of 8:11.31 with Lillian Masters, Shannon O'Malley, Pedrotti and Hess.

Hess also finished 17th in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:58.89 and the foursome of Brittany Heffler, Annamarie Policht, Kenna Hartmann and O'Malley finished 10th in the 200 free relay in 1:42.75. In 1-meter diving, Desiree Kline finished 14th with a score of 302.20.