Both Warrior Squads in Third After Day Two
Two More School Records in the Books

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. --- Junior Chris Dempsey (Newtown, Pa./Notre Dame) and senior Kelly Sykes (Willimantic, Conn./Windham) set new school records as both the Lycoming men's and women's swimming teams jumped into third place after the conclusion of the second day at the 2006 Middle Atlantic Conference Swimming Championships.

The Lady Warriors have racked up 295 points just ahead of Juniata College (282 pts.) and Widener University (279) and trailing Albright College (476) and the University of Scranton (419).  The Warriors men have put together a strong 273-point showing ahead of Scranton (272) and Susquehanna (223) while trailing Widener (581) and Albright (444).

Dempsey had an outstanding showing in the 400-yard individual medley, finishing in third place and breaking his own record by more than five seconds with a time of 4:20.70.  Sykes finished second in the women's 100-yard backstroke and also broke her own record, but did so in the narrowest of fashions in a time of 1:01.67, just one one-hundredth of a second faster than her previous time.

Lycoming relays continued to surprise in the excellent waters at the Wilkes-Barre CYC.  In the 200-yard medley relay, the Lady Warriors' group of freshman Nichole Zoller (Colonia, N.J./Union Catholic), junior Amy Gatehouse (Bethel Park, Pa./Bethel Park), Sykes, and freshman Julie Harahush (Pottsville, Pa./Pottsville) finished second in a time of 1:53.61.  On the men's side, senior Steve Hawley (New Cumberland, Pa./Trinity), sophomore Seth Urffer (Allentown, Pa./Parkland), and freshmen Brian Fausel (Burdett, N.Y./Watkins Glen) and Brandon Good (Clearfield, Pa./Clearfield) pushed the Warriors' 200-yard medley relay team into third place with a time of 1:39.75.

In other individual action, Hawley parlayed last season's 100-yard backstroke victory into a second place finish this year with a time of 53.54 seconds.  In the women's 100-yard breaststroke, Gatehouse equaled her 2005 third place finished with the same showing this season in a time of 1:09.93.

Sykes and senior Jeff Swatkins (Guilford, Conn./Xavier) made nice showings in both the women's and men's 100-yard butterfly events.  Sykes finished sixth in 1:03.24 while Swatkins placed fifth in a time of 54.50 seconds.

Freshman Milvana Ban (Harrisburg, Pa./Bishop McDevitt) shaved an enormous amount of time off her qualifying 4:59.53 to finish fifth in the 400-yard individual medley with a time of 4:54.34.

For a look at complete day two results, click here.