Lycoming Swims Well in the Second Day of MACs
Ban Takes Second in 400 IM

WILKES BARRE, Pa.—Lycoming’s swim teams enjoyed a great day at the second day of the Middle Atlantic Championships held in Wilkes Barre.

In the opening 200-yard medley relay, the Lady Warriors took fourth place. The team consisted of Caroline LeHota, Jessie Gallagher and seniors Amy Gatehouse and Jess Gough.  The men’s team of Sean Houser, Mike Zaiser, Brian Fausel and Brandon Good placed sixth. 

The relay was followed by the 400-yard IM, in which sophomore Milvana Ban took second. Ban led after the second lap and ended up shaving three seconds off of her seed time. For the men, senior captain Chris Dempsey placed fourth.

Sophomores Jessie Gallagher and Brian Fausel took sixth and seventh in their respective 100-yard butterfly events. Sophomore Amy Bentz grabbed 13^th in the 200-yard freestyle, while junior Holly Miller took 16^th.

Warrior freshman John Dougherty excelled for the second straight day, taking fifth in the men’s 200-yard freestyle. Freshman Mike Zaiser placed 13^th in the same event, taking more than five seconds off of his seed time.

In the 100-yard breaststroke, senior Amy Gatehouse took third for the second-highest placement for Lycoming thus far. Freshman Chelsey Jeremiah and sophomore Kirsten Snyder took 10^th and 11^th in the same event.

The women came to compete in the 100-yard backstroke, as Caroline LeHota, Nichole Zoller and Stephanie Conrad took places 4 through 6 respectively, all within a minute and a second of each other. Sean Houser placed fourth for the men, as freshman Austin Johnstone and sophomore Sean Berrier took 13^th and 15^th.

Finally, in the 800-yard freestyle relay, the Lady Warrior team of Ban, Bentz, Gallagher and Miller took sixth place, while the men’s team of Dougherty, Fausel, Zaiser and Dempsey placed fifth.

Head coach Jerry Hammaker is looking forward to Day Three of the MAC Championships. He wants to solidify the opinion that Lycoming’s young teams will be a force for the next few years. Currently, the women are in fourth place as a team, while the men sit solid as number six.