LOCK HAVEN, Pa. – For the first time in the 2019-20 season, the Lock Haven University swimming team competed at home and the Bald Eagles turned in a number of notable individual efforts, but visiting Kutztown (2-2) slipped by LHU, 130-106.
Leading the way for Lock Haven was
Madison Griffin (Douglasville, Pa./Daniel Boone),
Kristin Allen (Willow Street, Pa./Lampeter-Strasburg) and
Mikaela Clemson (Albury, Austrailia/Albury).
Both Griffin and Clemson posted victories, and Allen recorded a pair of strong early-season swims in the butterfly events.
Another strong individual Haven performance came from
Lauren Mummert (York, Pa./Northeastern), who won the 500-yard freestyle with a solid time of 5:43.60, well under her seed time.
Lily Arledge (Richwood, Ohio/River Valley) also did well for Lock Haven.
Griffin won the 100-backstroke with a time of 1:04.78 and earned the top point-scoring spot in the 200-IM with a time of 2:31.72.
Clemson was first in the 50-freestyle event with a time of 26.27 and she was second in the 100-free with a time of 58.33, as she shined in back-to-back events.
Allen was second in both the 200-butterfly (2:22.14) and 100-butterfly (1:06.31), as she pushed toward a conference championship qualifying mark in both with strong early-season marks.
Arledge was tough in the 200-IM after she place second in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:17.26.
This marked the first home meet of the season and therefore also marked the first ever home meet for newly appointed head coach
Brian Hein. Hein, who was named the head coach just before the start of the season on September 30, picked up his first win at LHU last weekend after the Bald Eagles posted an impressive dual-win on the road at Millersville. Last weekend's (Oct. 19) win, Lock Haven's first dual win of the 2019-20 season, snapped a five-meet losing streak to the Marauders and marked LHU's first win over Millersville since November 2012.
Today's meet with Kutztown marked the first of the three straight competitions at home for Lock Haven.
The Bald Eagles are now 1-1 in dual action.
LHU will return to action on Saturday, November 9 in dual action vs. California (Pa.), before hosting East Stroudsburg on Saturday, November 16.
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