February 21, 2010

Sunday sees Bears win another gold at Centennial Conference Championships

 

LANCASTER, Pa. - The Ursinus College swimming teams finished up the 2010 season on Sunday night in the third and final day of the 2010 Centennial Conference Championships hosted by Franklin & Marshall.

The women finished in fourth place with 409 points, just two points ahead of Swarthmore. The men finished in fifth place with a score of 388.

The Bears crowned another champion on Sunday night as sophomore Danielle Yentz (Springfield, Pa./Springfield) won the 200 back with a time of 2:10.17, just .78 seconds ahead of Elizabeth Schroll of Dickinson. Yentz had come into the event seeded first, after getting a 2:12.56 in the morning preliminaries.


The top finisher on the night for the men was sophomore Chris Smith (Wayne, Pa./St. Joseph's Prep) who finished second in the 200 fly with a time of 1:56.70, just .41 seconds behind Eliot Scymanski from F&M.

Junior Lloyd Tannenbaum (Dresher, Pa./Upper Dublin) was third in the 1650 free with a time of 16:25.88, while freshman Scott Paine (York, Pa./Dallastown Area) was sixth with a time of 16:41.29.

In the 100 free, freshman David Yazbeck (Dorchester Center, Mass./Boston Latin School) was 12th with a time of 48.51.

In the 200 breast, freshman Philip Quick (Bridgeton, N.J./Cumberland Regional) was fifth with a time of 2:15.17.

In the final event, the 400 free relay, the team of Paine, Tannenbaum, Smith and Yazbeck was fifth with a time of 3:14.28.

In the morming prelims, Smith set a school record with a time of 1:56.51, which earned him a top seed. In the 100 trials, Yazbeck was tenth with a mark of 48.30.

Quick took seventh in the 200 breast trials with a time of 2:16.31.