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Bears fifth after day one of CC Championships
LANCASTER, Pa. - The Ursinus College swimming teams opened up
day one of the three-day Centennial Conference Championships on
Friday at Franklin & Marshall College.
The women are in fifth after day one with a score of 121, while the
men are also in fifth with a score of 135.5.
In the opening event of the finals, the team of freshman
Philip Quick (Bridgeton, N.J./Cumberland
Regional), freshman David Yazbeck (Dorchester
Center, Mass./Boston Latin School), sophomore
Christopher Smith (Wayne, Pa./St. Joseph's Prep)
and junior Lloyd Tannenbaum (Dresher, Pa./Upper
Dublin) was fifth in the 200 free relay with a time of
1:28.41. The team of sophomore Christopher Doyle
(Holliston, Mass./Holliston), freshman Nicholas
Roberts (Metuchen, N.J./Metuchen), sophomore Kevin
Tallon (Manahawkin, N.J./Southern Regional) and freshman
Ryan Furlong (Douglaston, N.Y./Xavier) finished
13th with a time of 1:31.56.
Tannenbaum finished second in the 500 free finals, grabbing the
silver medal with a personal best time and school record mark of
4:43.68, followed by freshman Scott Paine (York,
Pa./Dallastown Area) in sixth place with a mark of
4:46.54. Smith was seventh in the event with a time of 4:48.12,
followed by freshman David Wagner (Whitehall,
Pa./Whitehall) in 14th place with a personal
best mark of 4:56.83.
In the 200 IM finals, Quick was 11th with a time of
2:02.62. In the 50 free finals, Yazbeck was fourth with a time of
21.84.
The Bears closed the night by finishing sixth in the 400 medley
relay with a time of 3:38.14. The team was made up of Paine, Quick,
Yazbeck and Smith. The team of Wagner, Doyle, Roberts and freshman
Adam McGonigle (Villanova, Pa./Harriton) finished
13th with a time of 3:52.17.
In the morning preliminaries, Paine finished fourth in the 500 free
with a then school record time of 4:46.31, followed by Tannenbaum
in fifth place with a mark of 4:46.53, which was a personal
best.
Smith finished sixth in the prelims with a then personal best of
4:48.22, followed by Wagner in 13th at 4:56.99.
In the 200 IM, Quick was 11th with a time of 2:02.60,
also a personal best.
Finally, in the morning's 50 free prelim, Yazbeck set a new school
record with a time of 21.76. That mark broke the oldest school
record.
