East Carolina University
All-North Carolina Invitational
ECU Swimmers Finish Second At All-North Carolina Invitational
October 04, 2014 | Swimming & Diving
GREENSBORO, N.C. --- The East Carolina men's and women's swimming and diving teams each finished in second place at the All-North Carolina Invitational, which concluded Saturday at the Greensboro Aquatic Center. The women's team finished 167 points behind first-place NC State, while the men's squad finished 430 points back off the Wolfpack.
Junior Bailie Monahan posted victories in the 200 IM (2:06.41) and the 200 butterfly (2:01.40), setting meet records in both events. She also captured second-place in the 100 butterfly with a time of 57.13, just 0.33 behind Natalie Labonge of NC State. Senior Rokas Cepulis was the only other ECU swimmer to be victorious, winning the men's 200 breaststroke.
ECU earned six silver medals during Saturday's competition. Freshman Julie Lajoie picked up a trio of silver medals, one in the women's 400 IM (4:24.49), one in the 200 butterfly (2:02.02) and the other in the 200 backstroke (2:02.43). Fellow freshman Vendela Norrman took second in the 200 breaststroke with a time of 2:18.44, finishing 2.05 ahead of bronze medalist and junior teammate Megan Sellers (2:20.39).
Senior Nikola Simic (45.77) finished 0.53 behind NC State's Ryan Held in the 100 freestyle for the only second-place finish on the men's side.
Sellers claimed her second individual bronze medal of the event by finishing third in the 100 breaststroke (1:04.59), missing the silver medal by 0.01 to the Wolfpack's Lauren Poli. Senior Charlsie Lincoln finished 0.16 behind her teammate to finish in fourth.
Sellers and Monahan helped the Pirates capture the bronze in the women's 200 medley relay along with Taylor Hague and Tori Angermeier with a time of 1:46.65. ECU's 400 free relay team of Simic, Fran Krznaric, Shawn Hunter and Trevor Irish earned third-place with a time of 3:05.35.
Ashley Sams (276.83) and Alicia Roueche (255.15) finished second and third on the women's 3-meter springboard with freshman Matt Mullen (245.55) claiming third in the men's 1-meter diving competition.
The Pirates will open the dual meet season on Saturday, Oct. 11 against Davidson inside Minges Natatorium at 1 p.m.
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