Meet Results
ONEONTA, N.Y. – Both senior
Christine Rieth (Penfield, N.Y./Webster Schroeder) and sophomore
Chelsea Allocco (Chatham, N.J./Chatham) were double individual-event winners, leading the State University of New York at New Paltz women's swimming team (2-1) to a 115-90 victory over SUNY Oneonta (1-1) on Friday afternoon at G. Hal Chase Gymnasium Pool.
Rieth set pool records in each of her events, posting first-place times in both the 50 freestyle (24.79) and the 100 freestyle (54.11). She also swam the anchor leg on the event-winning 400 medley relay, which set a pool record with a time of 4:11.59. In that relay, Rieth partnered with junior
Yuka Suzuka (Yorktown Heights, N.Y./Yorktown), Allocco and senior
Amanda Cloer (Stony Point, N.Y./North Rockland).
Allocco also won each of her individual events during the meet, touching first in the 400 individual medley (4:47.14) before taking the 500 freestyle with a time of 5:34.02.
Suzuka established a pool record of her own in the 200 backstroke. She won by nearly 10 seconds, stopping the clock at 2:12.57. Junior
Carly Marshall (Cornwall, N.Y./Cornwall Central) offered up a strong performance in the 200 butterfly, pacing the field with an event-winning 2:18.90.
The Hawks' 400 freestyle relay also collected first-place points, as the contingent of junior
Katina Lown (Bohemia, N.Y./Connetquot), freshman Katherine Buyes (Wappingers Falls, N.Y./John Jay), sophomore
Victoria Scalise (Rochester, N.Y./Brighton) and junior
Anna Jakubek (Harriman, N.Y./Monroe-Woodbury) edged out the Red Dragons' relay for first with a time of 3:52.44.
Second-place performances came from sophomore
Niki Ghostlaw (New Windsor, N.Y./Newburgh Free Academy) in the 1000 freestyle (11:47.78), Scalise in the 200 freestyle (2:05.72), Lown in the 50 freestyle (26.24) and Marshall in the 200 breaststroke (2:36.64).
New Paltz returns to the pool in less than 24 hours, hosting the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in its 2011-12 home opener tomorrow afternoon at Elting Pool. The first event is scheduled to commence at 1 p.m.