Meet Results

BROOKLYN, N.Y.—In the team's final Hudson Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Conference dual meet, Sarah Lawrence College women's swimming defeated St. Joseph's College Brooklyn, 52-41, at Brooklyn Technical High School on Friday.
 
The win is the Gryphons' 10th-straight dual victory in HVIAC/HVWAC competition. After a five-season unbeaten streak, SLC will transition as a member of the Skyline Conference in 2014-15.
 
Sarah Lawrence (7-1, 2-0 HVIAC) concludes the dual season with the team's best winning percentage (.875) on record and with the most wins since going 8-2 in 2010-11.
 
The Gryphons posted the fastest time in 10 events on the day. Sophomore Sam Amberchan (Menlo Park, Calif./Menlo-Atherton) and rookies Jacqueline Quirk (Millburn, N.J./Millburn), Colette Harley (Shelton, Conn./Shelton) and Gabby Risica (Narragansett, R.I./Narragansett) began the day with an 11-second victory in the 200 yard medley relay (2:09.38).
 
In the 1000 yard freestyle, junior Alexis Bates (Morristown, N.J./Morristown) and first-year Cecilia Nicholson (Tucson, Ariz./St. Gregory College Prep) took first (12:38.74) and second (15:07.45) place, respectively.
 
Swimming the 200 yard freestyle, sophomore Monika Mednick (Menlo Park, Calif./Menlo-Atherton) touched the wall first (2:32.79), while senior Jaime Chu (Hong Kong/Monte Vista) won the sprint for second with a finish of 2:40.24, just 0.06 second ahead of her Lady Bear opponent.
 
Risica notched her second win in the 50 free (28.06). Amberchan (2:41.01) paced the field in the 200 yard individual medley, while junior Natasha Leonard (Kailua-Kona, Hawai'i/Kealakehe) followed in second place (2:50.71).
 
The 100 yard butterfly saw Harley win by a 21-second margin with a time of 1:07.34. Risica followed with a win in her third race, the 100 yard freestyle, in a time of 1:02.67.
 
For St. Joseph's Brooklyn (2-6), sophomore Morgan Summers picked up the Lady Bears' only win, posting the fastest time in the 100 yard backstroke.
 
Bates (6:08.96) and Harley (6:09.37) put up the fastest two times in the day's second distance event, the 500 yard freestyle. The day's last individual event saw Quirk record the fastest performance (1:20.91) in the 100 yard breaststroke.
 
Bates, Leonard, Mednick and senior Dzana Ashworth (Portland, Ore./Oregon Episcopal School) rounded out the meet with a swim of 2:01.76 in the 200 yard free relay.
 
The Sarah Lawrence women return to action for the 2014 HVIAC Championships, Sunday, Jan. 26, hosted by College of New Rochelle. After winning 10 of 11 events in 2013, SLC seeks its fifth consecutive conference title. The meet kicks off at 10 a.m.