Women's Swimming 1/30/2009 11:28:34 AM

Heintz Takes Two as Red Flash Fall to Explorers

LORETTO, Pa. (Jan. 30, 2009) – Sophomore Melissa Heintz (Boyertown, Pa./Oley Valley) (Boyertown, Pa./Oley Valley) won two individual events but the Saint Francis swim team couldn't pull out a victory as they fell to the La Salle Explorers 114-87 on Friday afternoon at the Stokes Center.

Heintz won the 200-yard freestyle in a time of 1:58.79, and later went on to take the 100-yard freestyle as well. Her time of 54.50 beat out La Salle's Carleen Caldwell by .20.

The Red Flash “A” 200-yard medley relay team of Elise Merrill (Carlisle, Pa/Big Spring) (Carlisle, Pa./Big Spring), Elyse Peterman (Lock Haven, Pa./Central Mountain), Elyse Dobrick (Zelienople, Pa/Seneca Valley) (Zelienople, Pa./Seneca Valley) and Blair Kosela (Cresent, Pa/Moon Area) (Crescent, Pa./Moon Township) took second place, finishing in 1:52.78.

Merrill and Kosela also combined for a 2-3 finish in the 50-yard freestyle with times of 25.21 and 25.73 respectively.

Freshman Jessica Dunn (Bristow, Va./Seton School) (Bristow, Va./Seton School) swam to a first place finish in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 1:00.69. She also had a third place finish in the 200-yard individual medley, touching the wall in 2:13.17.

Abi May (Pittsburgh, Pa./Shaler Area), who is in her first season with the team after running cross-country for SFU, picked up second place in the 100-yard butterfly. Her time of 1:00.38 was just .03 behind that of Aubrey Cefalo, who took first for the Explorers.

Cara Morgan (Lancaster, Pa./Hempfield) (Lancaster, Pa./Hempfield) touched the wall in 5:26.31 in the 500-yard freestyle, picking up a third place finish for the Red Flash. Teammates Kaitlin MacDonald (Olney, Md./Academy of Holy Cross) and Bethany Lanzendoen (River Edge, N.J./River Dell) were right behind her in fourth and fifth place, respectively.

Merrill, Heintz and Kosela combined with Katie Snyder (Dayton, Ohio/Butler) (Dayton, Ohio/Butler) for a second place finish in the 200-yard freestyle relay (1:41.02).

Peterman picked up a third place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke in a time of 1:11.17. Teammates Snyder and Chloe Pierre (Valencia, Pa./Mars) (Valencia, Pa./Mars) took fourth and fifth place with times of 1:11.78 and 1:12.92 respectively.

The Red Flash will host St. Bonaventure on Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Stokes Center. The meet, which will be their final home event of the season, will also mark the team's annual Senior Day.

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