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Colorado State Swim and Dive Invitational
Swimmers Take Second Place in Early Bird Invitational
10/21/2000 12:00:00 AM | Swimming & Diving
Oct. 21, 2000
FT. COLLINS, Colo. - Fresno State swimming and diving scored early and scored big en route to a second place finish at the 2000 Early Bird Invitational hosted by Colorado State.
Participating at CSU's invitational the last three years, the Bulldogs totaled a school-record 800 points and had their closest finish ever to host CSU (875.50 pts.) as the Rams defended their invitational crown for the third straight year.
In the morning session, Fresno State and Wyoming exchanged second and third place three times but the Bulldogs held on to second place after a strong finish in the 800 freestyle relay which gave the 'Dogs a 20 point lead over the Cowgirls.
In the afternoon session, Fresno State built upon the momentum as its milers came up big and scored heavily in several events.
Fresno State posted three first-place finishes, six second-place finished and five third-place finishes in its second invitational meet on the season.
The Bulldogs opened their second day of swimming with a second-place finish in the 200 freestyle relay with a time of 1:39.05 (Jesie Lewis, Lena Darnell, Chandra Riberich, Summir Case). The 400 medley relay team of Case, Kristi Markiewitz, Laurel Frisinger and Lewis took second with a time of 4:00.67.
In the afternoon, Case, Holly Calcote, Frisinger and Darnell propelled the Bulldogs to a first-place victory in the 200 medley relay (1:49.17). In the last relay of the evening in the 800 freestyle, Fresno State captured second place after clocking 7:52.95 (Darnell, Jessica Klenner, Jennifer Brown and Lewis).
Individually, Lewis continued a successful weekend by winning the 50 (24.56) and 100 (53.24) freestyle events for her fourth and fifth individual win on the young season. Brown (1650 free, 17:25.74), Frisinger (100 fly, 59.98) and Case (100 back, 58.60) took place honors.
In her first competition of the season, freshman Nicole Recupito scored 294.60 points for a 10th place finish in the 1 meter diving and tallied 286.25 points in the 3 meter board.
"The morning session was a dog fight," said assistant coach Matt Brown. "We exchanged leads with Wyoming at least three times but our relay and our milers scored big for us and we held onto second place. That success gave us at least a 30 point lead over Wyoming into the evening session. We continued to add to our score in the evening session as the team was scoring high in every event raced. We swam a great meet this weekend and had a very good performance against New Mexico. This team swam with a lot of heart and we were very pleased with their contributions."
