Both Scot Teams Place Fourth at NCAC Relays

Eric Babbitt

The College of Wooster swimming and diving teams kicked off their seasons on Saturday by both coming in fourth-place at the North Coast Athletic Conference Relays. Overall, the Wooster men scored 88 points in their nine-team field, while Kenyon College won (176), and the Scot women ended up with 94 tallies as part of an eight-team field. Denison University took top honors in the women’s division (172).

Wooster’s top finish of the day was a third-place effort by the men’s 200 medley relay team, consisting of Logan LaBerge, Andrew Olsen, Brendan Horgan, and Eric Babbitt, as they touched in 1:38.41. A fourth-place performance was recorded by Horgan, Matt Dominski, Adel El-Adawy, and Babbitt in the 200 butterfly relay (1:36.64), while the 200 freestyle team of Babbitt, Horgan, Michael Saltzman, and Ryan Radtke also took fourth overall (1:27.58).

Four of the Scots’ women’s relays finished among the top-five. The first event of the day saw   Meggie Edwards, Tamari Farquharson, Alice Case, and Molly Bittner join forces for fifth-place in the 200 medley (1:52.54). Edwards, May Tobar, Kate Kosenick, and Farquharson matched that finish in the 200 backstroke relay (1:53.24). Syd Kelly, Farquharson, Lindsey Dorko, and Allie Kibler-Campbell were fifth in the 200 breaststroke relay (2:12.49). Farquharson, just a freshman, also was part of Wooster’s final fifth-place team, as she teamed with Case, Bittner, and Elizabeth Zucco in the 200 freestyle relay (1:42.08).

Wooster’s season begins in earnest Oct. 26-27, when it hosts Mt. Union College in a dual on Friday at 5:30 p.m., and then travels to rival Wittenberg University Saturday at 1 p.m.