Meet Results

Big contributions from newcomers helped lead the Oneonta State swimming & diving teams to season opening wins over Oswego today.  The women defeated the Lakers 132-107 while the men took its side 125-118.

Freshman Daniel Donaghy (Holtsville/Sachem East) (Holtsville/Sachem East) and sophomore Jermaine Miller (Elmira/Southside ) (Elmira/Southside) were both double winners for the Red Dragons today.  Donaghy won the 1,000 and 500-yard freestyle events to score 18 points in the individual events.

Miller picked up where he left off last winter, winning both the 3-meter, six dives and 1-meter, six dive events with scores of 257.05 and 246.20 respectively.

Single event winners in the meet for the men included Oneonta native Alex Miller and junior Steven Hourigan (Stony Brook/Ward Melville) (Stony Brook/Ward Melville).  Miller won the 100-yard backstroke while setting a school record in the 200-yard IM, which he placed second.  Hourigan won the 100-yard butterfly.

On the women's side, it was sophomore Melissa Erickson (Silver Spring, MD/Academy of the Holy Cross) (Silver Spring, MD/Academy of the Holy Cross) and freshmen Carly Cahill (Troy/Troy) (Troy/Troy) and Hillary Chocko (Queensbury/Queensbury) (Queensbury/Queensbury) who won two events to lead the Red Dragons.

Erickson won both the distance freestyle events.  Cahill won both the 100 and 200-yard freestyle events.  Chocko won both the 100 butterfly and the 200 IM events.

Picking up individual event wins were a trio of freshmen as Alyssa Brennan (St. James/Smithtown East) (St. James/Smithtown East), Kara Garbarino (Latham/Shaker) (Latham/Shaker) and Hannah Hillebrand (Stony Point/North Rockland) (Stony Point/North Rockland) all made an impact in their collegiate debut.  Brennan won the 100 back, Garbarino took the 3-meter, six dive event while Hillebrand won the 1-meter, six dive event.

The men and women will swim again this coming Friday versus New Paltz in its home opener beginning at 4pm.