Women's Swimming Notches Second Win, Bests Hood 148-110
Diana Young and the Pacers picked up a win in Young's home state of Maryland as Marywood knocked off Hood College 148-110

Women's Swimming Notches Second Win, Bests Hood 148-110

Women's Swimming and Diving - 12/11/2010 5:28:34 PM

Meet Results

Frederick, MD - Keri Bensley, Alyssa Desiderio and Katie Paterson each won two individual events as Marywood University dominated host Hood College in a 148-110 win for the Pacers Saturday afternoon in Frederick, Maryland.  Marywood improves to 2-8 with the win while the Blazers fall to 0-5 on the year.

Paterson got the Pacers going on the right foot with a dominating performance int eh 1000 yard freestyle, touching in 10:59.00.  Paterson's (Clarks Summit, PA) time was nearly a minute and a half ahead of teammate and second place finisher Vanessa Szilagyi (Bloomsburg, PA), who finished in 12:21.78. 

Alyssa Desiderio (Warrington, PA) then had a strong performance in the 200 yard freestyle, finishing in 2:16.60.  Marywood built on their lead as Bensley (Matamoras, PA) won the 100 yard backstroke in a time of 1:11.84.  Desiderio picked up her second win of the day with a  time of 1:03.62 in the 100 yard freestyle, while Bensley won again in the 50 yard backstroke with a time of 33:17.

Not to be out-done by her two teammates, Paterson earned another win with a time of 5:24:76 in the 500 freestyle, this time finishing over thirty seconds ahead of second place finisher Szilangy.

Marywood returns to the pool on January 12 at Wells College.
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