Meet Results

BUFFALO – Program records fell in the 500 freestyle and the 400 medley relay for the State University of New York at New Paltz women's swimming team on day one of the 2013 State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) Swimming & Diving Championships on Thursday at Erie Community College's Burt Flickinger Aquatic Center, as the Hawks wound up with 154 points to rank fourth overall in the team standings.

Seniors Katina Lown (Bohemia, N.Y./Connetquot) and Anna Jakubek (Harriman, N.Y./Monroe-Woodbury) and freshmen Cassidy Griger (Cooperstown, N.Y./Cooperstown Central) and Ella Graffin (Ithaca, N.Y./Ithaca) kicked off the meet with a third-place time of 1:38.57 in the 200 freestyle relay.

In the 500 freestyle, junior Chelsea Allocco (Chatham, N.J./Chatham) held just above 30 seconds for most of her 50 splits, touching at a program record and NCAA provisional time of 5:00.26 to take second. Allocco reset her former mark of 5:03.80, which she set in 2011. Griger placed fifth with a time of 5:10.32, while sophomore Kat Buyes (Wappingers Falls, N.Y./John Jay) and junior Niki Ghostlaw (New Windsor, N.Y./Newburgh Free Academy) finished 12th (5:17.84) and 13th (5:17.84), respectively.

Senior Yuka Suzuka (Yorktown Heights, N.Y./Yorktown) defended her 200 individual medley conference title, clocking in at 2:09.32. Senior Carly Marshall (Cornwall, N.Y./Cornwall Central) also competed in the championship final of the event and took eighth (2:14.31).

Junior Victoria Scalise (Rochester, N.Y./Brighton) was New Paltz's lone finalist in the 50 freestyle, finishing second with a time of 24.06.

The Hawks' 400 medley relay team went toe-to-toe with SUNY Geneseo in the 400 medley relay, and both teams cleared the NCAA provisional qualifying time. New Paltz wound up taking second in the event, as the quartet of Suzuka, sophomore Colleen Stewart (Shelton, Conn./Shelton), Marshall and Scalise combined for a second-place time of 3:52.37. That performance bettered the former program record of 3:54.67, which the foursome of Suzuka, Becky Baker, Marshall and Christine Rieth set in 2011. New Paltz also cleared the conference meet and overall records, but Geneseo staked claim to both by virtue of finishing first in the race.

Leading off the 400 medley relay, Suzuka split a 56.03 in the 100 backstroke, which met the NCAA provisional qualifying standard in the event.

New Paltz continues action at the meet tomorrow, with the preliminary heats beginning at 10 a.m. and the final heats starting at 6 p.m.