Meet Results

CORTLAND, N.Y. – The 200 freestyle relay team of junior Katina Lown (Bohemia, N.Y./Connetquot), sophomore Victoria Scalise (Rochester, N.Y./Brighton), senior Taylor Henshaw (Norwood, N.J./Northern Valley Old Tappan) and senior Christine Rieth (Penfield, N.Y./Webster Schroeder) provided heroics for the State University of New York at New Paltz women's swimming team (9-2), as the foursome beat SUNY Cortland (3-2) in the final event to prevail by a final score of 134-128 on Friday afternoon at Harriet Holsten Pool.

Rieth ensured the victory with a 23.48 split anchoring the relay, which cracked the 1:40 barrier with a time of 1:39.89. Cortland's “A” squad swam the event in 1:40.81. Each of the four swimmers on the relay split under 26 seconds, as Lown went a 25.94 to lead off the relay, Scalise split a 24.85 on the second leg and Henshaw clocked a 25.62 swimming the third leg.

Junior Yuka Suzuka (Yorktown Heights, N.Y./Yorktown) was a triple-event winner for the Hawks, as she captured the 100 backstroke (1:00.16), the 200 backstroke (2:10.38) and the 200 individual medley (2:15.55). Sophomore Chelsea Allocco (Chatham, N.J./Chatham) and Rieth also won multiple individual events, as Allocco touched first in the 1,000 freestyle (10:58.54) and 500 freestyle (5:19.21), while Rieth registered first-place times in the 50 freestyle (24.81) and 100 freestyle (54.08). Scalise headed a 1-2 New Paltz finish in the 200 freestyle, charting an event-winning 2:01.57, while junior Carly Marshall (Cornwall, N.Y./Cornwall Central) covered the 200 butterfly in an event-best 2:13.33.

Allocco and Marshall were the lone runner-up finishers for New Paltz, as Allocco took second in the 200 freestyle (2:02.12), while Marshall touched second in the 100 butterfly (1:01.34).

New Paltz competes in its final tune-up before the 2012 State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) Swimming & Diving Championships on Saturday, Jan. 28, as it takes on the Stevens Institute of Technology at 1 p.m. Prior to the start of the meet, the team will honor its five seniors as a part of Senior Day festivities.