By: by Joe Guster, Sports Information Director
Complete Results
FLUSHING, N.Y. (Jan. 23, 2014) – The Maritime men's and women's swimming and diving teams both lost to Division II Queens College on the road Thursday night at the Knights' Fitzgerald Pool. The men were defeated by the score of 130-112, to fall to 5-2 overall on the season, while the women lost, 106-82, as their record drops to 3-3-1.
On the women's side, the squad started the meet by winning the opening event, the 200-yard medley relay. The team of senior
Kwantisha Lozada (Freehold, N.J./Freehold Township), sophomore
Emma Crandall (Penfield, N.Y./Penfield), junior
Christine McCormack (Goshen, N.Y./Goshen) and freshman
Danielle Leahy (Cocoa Beach, Fla./Cocoa Beach) touched first with a time of 2:14.44.
That was the only first place finish on the night for the Privateers, however. Maritime did have four second-place finishes though, as freshman
Ashley O'Brien (Middle Village, N.Y./The Mary Louis Academy) placed second in the 200 free, Lozada in the 100 free, Crandall in the 100 breast and the team of O'Brien, Leahy, Lozada and Murphy came in second in the 200 free relay, missing out on first by just 37-hundreths of a second.
For the men, freshmen
Robert Lewis (Belchertown, Mass./Belchertown) and diver
Chris Deaver (Warwick, N.Y./Warwick Valley) led the squad with two first-place finishes. Lewis won both distance events: the 1000 free in 11:24.45 and the 500 free in 5:32.85. Deaver came out on top of Queens' Daniel Guerrero with a score of 227.25 in the 1-meter dive and then scored a 136.13 later in the meet, also off the 1-meter diving board.
The Privateers also got a first-place finish from sophomore
Ryan Fitzgerald (Miller Place, N.Y./Miller Place) in the 100 butterfly with a time of 1:01.55.
Maritime will return to action a week from Thursday, Jan. 30, for the Skyline Championship Meet. The meet was originally planned to be a two-day event at Old Westbury next weekend, but will now be a one-day event at Purchase College on Thursday beginning at 5 p.m. The men will be in search of their seventh straight Skyline title, while the women will look to improve on last year's fourth-place finish.