Seahawk Men Remain in Third at CAC Championships
St. Mary's City, Md. - Senior Michael Preston (Pasadena, Md./Cardinal Gibbons) notched his third individual school record to help St. Mary's College of Maryland stay in third place after second day of action at the 2009 Capital Athletic Conference Men's & Women's Swimming Championships hosted by St. Mary's. Competition started yesterday and will run until tomorrow night when the team champion is crowned.
The Seahawks registered two more school marks to bring their total five school records thus far as St. Mary's raised its point total to 333 points to remain in third place following two days of competition.
The University of Mary Washington maintained its hold of first place as sophomore Stephen Clendenin (Ashburn, Va.) and company set a pair of CAC meet records.
Clendenin broke the 400 IM CAC meet record twice as he displaced his own mark of 4:05.93 from a year ago with his preliminary and NCAA provisional time of 4:04.55. Clendenin then went on to capture the finals in the evening as he touched the pads in 4:01.13 to surpass his own mark from this morning and notch another NCAA ‘B' cut.
UMW's quartet of sophomore Tyler Henderson (Purcellville, Va./Thomas Johnson), junior Justin Anderson (Oak Hill, Va./Oakton), sophomore Brad Dunn (Williamsburg, Va./Bruton) and Clendenin set a CAC meet in the 800 free relay with an NCAA provisional time of 6:52.71.
Senior Michael Preston (Pasadena, Md./Cardinal Gibbons) picked up another individual record tonight as Preston garnered second team All-CAC laurels in the 200 free with a school record 1:43.80, broke his own mark from a year ago (1:45.12).
The Seahawks established a school record in the 800 free relay as junior Cam Buckingham (Silver Spring, Md./Blake), sophomore Aaron Page (Keene, N.H./Keene), senior Bobby Wiley (Silver Spring, Md./Springbrook), and Preston swam a 7:19.83 for third place, knocking off 1999 mark of 7:19.95.
TEAM STANDINGS: 1. Mary Washington 565, 2. York
(Pa.) 425, 3. St. Mary's (Md.) 333,
4. Salisbury 278, 5. Marymount (Va.) 263, 6. Hood 127, 7. Gallaudet
80.
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EVENT |
FIRST TEAM ALL-CAC |
SECOND TEAM ALL-CAC |
THIRD TEAM ALL-CAC |
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200 Medley Relay |
UMW - Tyler Henderson, Enser Cole, Stephen Clendenin, Brian O'Donnell |
YCP - Matthew Jennings, Steven Tobin, Clark Arnold, Ben Hilt |
SMC - Gabe Grace, Aaron Page, Troy Kent, Jackson Webb |
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400 IM |
UMW - Stephen Clendenin |
UMW - Colin Hess |
SMC - Cam Buckingham |
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100 Fly |
MMU - Greg Murtha |
UMW - Jason McCormack |
UMW - Michael Dickerson |
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200 Free |
UMW - Brad Dunn |
SMC - Mike Preston |
UMW - Justin Anderson |
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100 Breast |
SU - Mike Ferrari |
YCP - Steven Tobin |
UMW - Cole Enser |
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100 Back |
UMW - Tyler Henderson |
YCP - Matthew Jennings |
UMW - Kevin Murphy |
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800 Free Relay |
UMW - Tyler Henderson, Justin Anderson, Brad Dunn, Stephen Clendenin |
YCP - Michael Murphy, Steve Yeager, Garrett Higgins, Jack Gottschalk |
SMC - Cam Buckingham, Aaron Page, Bobby Wiley, Mike Preston |
SEAHAWK HIGHLIGHTS
In the 200 medley relay, sophomore Gabe
Grace (Baltimore, Md./Baltimore Polytech),
Page, freshman Troy Kent (New
Market, Md./Linganore), and sophomore Jackson Webb
(Leonardtown, Md./Leonardtown) earned third team all-conference
honors as the Seahawks a third-best time of 1:39.72.
Buckingham tallied All-CAC honors in the 400 IM as he finished third in 4:23.14, while senior captain Joey Quase (Montgomery Village, Md./Good Counsel) came in seventh in the same event in 4:32.37. Senior captain Chris Cammarata (Towson, Md./Loyola Blakefield) was third in the consolation finals of the 400 IM with his time of 4:41.44 to take 11th overall.
Webb took eighth place honors in the 100 fly as he touched the pads in 53.83.
Page and sophomore Nico Pinto (Lima, Peru) were St. Mary's top finishers in the 100 breast as Page placed seventh in 1:02.89 followed by Pinto in eighth in 1:04.04.
Grace finished sixth for the Seahawks in the 100 back in 56.25, while freshman John Kitner (Great Mills, Md./Leonardtown) was third in the consolation finals for 11th overall in 59.92.
