Former WAC champs struggle
The Nevada swimming and diving team fell from second to fourth place over the weekend at the Pacific Invitational in Stockton, Calif.Nationally-ranked California competed in the second and final day Saturday to win the event with a score of 808.50 points, while Nevada finished with 517 behind Oregon State (626.50) and Pacific (603).
A junior transfer helped lead the Wolf Pack in its first meet of the season after it won its first ever Western Athletic Conference title last spring.
Courtney Eads recorded the top two individual finishes on the second day, placing seventh in the 100-meter freestyle and 200-meter backstroke. Freshman Jeanette Tour finished eighth in the 100-meter backstroke in a time of 59.62 seconds.
Her fellow freshman Marichi Gandionco took ninth in the 100-meter butterfly and 10th in the 500-meter freestyle on Saturday. She swam the butterfly race in 58.69 and the freestyle in 5:10.53.
Junior Kim Kabesh placed one spot higher than Gandionco in the 100-meter butterfly and missed placing in the top 10 in the 200-meter butterfly. Senior Michaela Schmidt finished ninth in the 100-meter freestyle and 11th in the 100-meter butterfly.
The relay team of Bobbie Lee Reese, Daniele Maddock, Eads and Gandionco had the team’s best finish of the day after taking third in the 800-meter freestyle relay in 7:47.62.
In the 200-meter freestyle relay, Jessica Hemmingsen, JayDee Huppert, Margaret Doolittle and Nonie Wainwright took sixth in 1:38.70.
Doolittle, Eads, Reese, Wainwright, Gandionco, Schmidt, Miranda More, Summer Halwas-Morgan and Alyson Armstrong each placed in the top 10 on Friday with Doolittle winning the 100-meter breaststroke.
Eads took second in the 200-meter freestyle and third in the 400-meter individual medley, and Wainwright placed second in the 50-meter freestyle. Reese placed eighth in the 50-meter freestyle, ninth in the 100-meter breaststroke and 10th in the 200-meter freestyle.
Also in the 400-meter IM, Gandionco took fourth followed by Schmidt in eighth and Halwas-Morgan in ninth. More took fifth in the 1,650-meter freestyle and Armstrong followed in ninth.
The 200-meter medley relay of Jeanette Tour, Doolittle, Eads and Wainwright took third, and the 400-meter freestyle relay team of Eads, Schmidt, Wainwright and Jessica Hemmingsen finished fourth.
The Wolf Pack hits the water in two weeks when it travels to Lincoln, Neb., to compete in four duals during Nov. 2-3.
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