Oct. 31, 2009

Complete Results

Amherst, Mass. - Stony Brook University's men's and women's swimming and diving teams competed at Massachusetts on Saturday afternoon. The men's team fell, 193-101, and the women's team lost, 180-115. Junior Lukasz Ochmanski (Lodz, Poland) and freshman Ivan Kopas (Kikinda, Serbia) led the men's team with two individual victories. Freshman Julie Policht (Toronto, Ontario) and sophomores Deirdre Leong (Forest Hills, N.Y.) and Mallory Breen (Quispamsis, New Brunswick) led the women's team with individual wins. Sophomore Darcy Heuser (Centerville, Ohio) ended the afternoon with three top-three finishes.

Ochmanski won the 1,000-yard freestyle (10:02.20) by more than seven seconds over the second-place finisher, junior Nathan Fleshman (Monroe, Mich.). Ochmanski also won the 500-yard freestyle, touching first in 4:46.51. He finished second in the 400-yard IM, edged by only four seconds.

Kopas placed first in the 100-yard backstroke, coming in with a time of 51.48. In the 200-yard backstroke, Kopas edged Massachusetts' Joey Sbordon by just a second. Kopas nearly won a third event, but was edged and finished in third place (22.13).

The 100-yard freestyle was an exciting finish and sophomore Sean Conway (Oakdale, N.Y.) came out on top, finishing in 47.31. Conway finished second in the 200-yard freestyle (1:46.13).

On the women's side, Heuser finished second in the 1,000-yard freestyle, touching in 10:43.40. Swimming the 100-yard freestyle, Heuser was edged by less than half a second. Heuser lost the 100-yard butterfly by just 12 one/hundredths of a second. She was also part of the relay that won the 400-yard freestyle.

Policht won the first individual event for the women's team, finishing the 200-yard butterfly in 2:09.81. She also recorded a second-place finish, coming in at 5:16.69 in the 500-yard freestyle.

Leong placed first in the 200-yard backstroke, finishing in 2:13.45. Breen won the 400-yard IM by more than six seconds, finishing in 4:47.67.

Sophomore Shanna Murphy (Chester, N.Y.) and junior Megan Furrer (Lindenhurst, N.Y.) finished second and third, respectively, in the 3-meter dive.