WINONA, Minn. — The Saint Mary's University swimming and diving teams kicked off their home schedule Saturday afternoon — and the Cardinals didn't disappoint.
Even if they came out on the short end of both dual-meet decisions.
“This was a great meet — two duals that really could have gone either way,” said SMU coach
Eric Lindquist, whose men dropped a 117.5-92.5 decision to Macalester, while the Scots also topped the SMU women, 133-81. “The finals scores definitely didn't tell the story. Both duals were very close, (Macalester) was just a little too deep for us.
“I was very happy with the way we swam,” Lindquist added. “It's always fun to go head-to-head with the Scots — it was a great day of competition all the way around.”
Linda Tierney (Cloquet, Minn.) led the way for the SMU women, winning the 100 breaststroke in 1:16.07, while
Jennifer Salzman (Hilo, Hawaii) continued her sizzling senior season, placing second in both the 100 breaststroke (1:17.46) and the 200 freestyle, touching the wall in 2:09.07. Salzman and Tierney also teamed with
Courtney Keyler (Shorewood, Minn.) and
Nikki Farmer (Medford, Wis.) to win the 200 freestyle (1:51.92).
On the men's side,
John Fox (Winona, Minn.) and
Neil Heacox (San Diego, Calif.) finished 1-2 in the 100 breaststroke, going 1:02.41 and 1:08.54, respectively, while Heacox also placed second in the 100 freestyle (54.72) and 200 freestyle (2:00.90), and Fox was second in 50 freestyle (23.08). Fox also swam the second leg in SMU's winning 200 medley relay, teaming with
Mark Ross (Dubuque, Iowa),
Tim Tysk (St. Paul, Minn.) and
Tom Walsh (Prior Lake, Minn.) to win the event in 1:45.12, while Ross added an individual first in the 400 IM with a time of 4:44.66.
SMU's divers dominated, as
Andrew Noyes (Eden Prairie, Minn.) won the 1- and 3-meter diving, scoring 148.65 in the one-meter and 141.75 in the three-meter.
Rachel Steinkamp (Lakeville, Minn.) and
Liz Flynn (Mahtomedi) went 1-2 on the women's side, with Steinkamp winning the one-meter (197.56) and placing second in the three-meter (153.90), while Flynn was second in the one-meter (191.02) and first in the three-meter (178.95).
