McMINNVILLE, Ore. – In the second meet at the Linfield Aquatic Center in two days, the University of Puget Sound beat Linfield on Saturday afternoon by the scores of 121-84 for the women and 149-56 for the men.
The Wildcats won a season-best six events, but dropped their fourth dual meet of the season.
The Wildcats pulled out a first-place finish in the 400-yard freestyle relay. Nikki Overton (Fr., Gresham, Ore.), Kelcie Kimura (Soph., Honolulu, Hawaii), Megan Sandall (Sr., Bellevue, Wash.) and Elizabeth Fry (Fr., Bellevue, Idaho) finished the race in 3:45.69 minutes, with their closest Logger competition about 14 seconds behind them.
Overton won first place in the 100-yard freestyle, with a finishing time of 56.83. Overton also finished a close second to Puget Sound’s Melissa Norrish (2:01.12) in the 200 freestyle (2:01.50). Sandall rounded out the top three with a time of 2:06.00.
Sandall contributed another Wildcat win in the 500-yard freestyle, finishing the race in 5:35.88 minutes, a full eight seconds before the next competitor.
Catherine Nakamura (Sr., Mililani, Hawaii) swam to a second-place finish in the 50-yard freestyle (27.21). She was beat out by Puget Sound’s Ava Williams, who finished the race in 26.49 seconds. Nakamura also swam the 200-yard butterfly in 2:26.15 minutes, which put her in third place behind Loggers Melissa Norrish and Mariah Snowden.
Tori Nickerson (Soph., Oak Harbor, Wash.) counted for one of the Wildcat wins with a 2 minute, 21.08 second finish in the 200 individual medley. Nickerson also pulled up second in the 200 breaststroke (2:35.50). Tracy Wormwood of UPS beat Nickerson to the wall, finishing in 2:35.20.
Logger Aleksander Jeremikj topped Ian White (Fr., Kailua, Hawaii) in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:49.33 to White's 1:51.98.
Lee Rivers (Jr., Renton, Wash.) accounted for one of the Linfield victories in the 200 IM with a time of 2:03.25. In the 200-yard backstroke, Rivers swam into a third-place finish (2:04.81). Puget Sound’s Keven Henley and Teale Kitson took first and second in the same race.
Chris Purdy (Soph., Sublimity, Ore.) won the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:26.36.
NEXT: Linfield faces the College of Idaho and Mills College after the Thanksgiving Break on Friday, Nov. 30 at 6 p.m. at home. The following day, the Wildcats travel to Portland, Ore., to face Lewis and Clark, also at 6 p.m.
Nicole Overton
Wins 100 freestyle, starts off Linfield's winning 400 freestyle relay
More Information:
Linfield Swimming
Swimming Schedule
Swimming Season Statistics
Recent Headlines
Where Are They Now? Dominic Rieniets
Looking Beneath the Surface
Overton, Kimura cap off NWCs with two more Linfield records
Sandall, Overton, Rivers and Purdy shine at NWCs
Kelly Bird
Director of Sports Information
Linfield College
McMinnville, OR 97128
E-mail: kbird@linfield.edu
Phone: 503-883-2439
Fax: 503-883-2649

