Swimming And Diving Falls Short In Buffalo

Friday, February 1

Buffalo, N.Y.

4:00 PM

Bowling Green State University

117

176

Buffalo

February 01, 2019 | Women's Swimming & Diving

By: by Kyle Edmond, BGSU Athletics

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - The Bowling Green State University swimming and diving program competed in their fourth MAC meet of the season, coming up short against Buffalo with a final of 176-117. The loss moves the Falcons to a 7-5 record on the season with a 1-3 standing within the conference.

First Place Falcons

The Falcons earned their first first place finish of the meet in the 100 Backstroke with Daisy Platts registering a time of 56:42. She was followed by Lauren Sullivan with a time of 58:22, give BGSU the top two spots.
Platts and Sullivan gave Bowling Green another one-two punch in the 200 Backstroke. Platts took first again, this time finishing in 2:01.85, with Sullivan not far behind in second at 2:04.81.
Talisa Lemke rallied in another win in the 1-meter dive, tallying a score of 276.08, earning nine points for the Falcons.

Other Top Performances

To open the meet, the Falcons claimed a second place finish in the 200 Medley Relay with the team of Platts, Nikki Borgerding, Sarah Hennings and Anna Eriksson finishing with a time of 1:46.08.
In the next event, the 1000 Freestyle, the Falcons took second, third, and fourth with Kellie House (10:30.01), Mary Edwards (10:39.36) and Meghan Burnard (11:05.81) finishing respectively.
Talisa Lemke barely missed another first place finish in the 3-meter dive, coming away with a score of 294.90, giving her a second place finish.
In the 200 Breaststroke, the Falcons again took second, third, fourth and fifth with Borgerding (2:28.47), Emily Verbrugge (2:28.47), Kasie Perretta (2:31.66) and Kristen Puthoff (2:35.47) finishing.
Following, in the 500 Freestyle, Bowling Green snagged second through fifth with House (5:10.02), Edwards (5:11.16), Maddy Andrews (5:13.67) and Burnard (5:29.61) coming in for the Falcons.
For the third consecutive event, the Falcons saw the same results of claiming second through fifth. This time the Orange and Brown had Hennings (56.84), Eriksson (59.21), Michaela Ruddock (1:02.59) and Sarah Fergus (1:02.70) compete.
In the 200 IM, the Falcons claimed second through fifth yet again. In this meet, BGSU was led by Platts (2:08.47), Borgerding (2:15.41), Verbrugge (2:17.13) and Elodie Schreiber (2:17.88).
To conclude the meet, the Orange and Brown took second, third and fourth in the 200 Freestyle Relay.

FULL RESULTS

Up Next
The Falcons will conclude their regular season with a two day event in Toledo, taking place on Friday, Feb. 8 and Saturday, Feb. 9. This will be both Bowling Green and Toledo's last meet prior to the MAC Championships. The Rockets will enter the competition with a 3-5 record, 0-3 within the MAC. This year, Toledo lost to Eastern Michigan, Ohio, and Miami within the conference. Friday's portion of the meet will begin at 5 p.m., with Saturday starting at 11 a.m.

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