Meet Information:

Massachusetts Minutewomen vs. Rhode Island Rams

Rogers Pool - Amherst, Mass.

Results

Rhode Island (5-3) dropped their second meet in a row, this one to Massachusetts, 176-119.

Highlights From the Pool

• Senior Lauren Folkert won the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 2:06.37 and the 200-yard individual medley with a 2:14.11. These were her team-leading eighth and ninth individual wins of the season.
• Folkert also took second in the 100-yard backstroke, swimming it in 59.08. She was the only Ram to swim it in under one minute in the race.
• Sophomore Nicole Petta was back to her winning ways when she took the 200-yard breaststroke with a 2:26.71.
• The Rams took second and third place in the opening event: the 200-yard medley relay. The team of Petta, Hannah Homans, Caitlin Guccione and Bridget Whalen took the number two spot with a time of 1:50.93, while the team of Folkert, Carly DeLiberty, Caitlyn Blake and Eliza Anderson took third with a 1:52.24.
• The Rams took silver in 10 of the events, including DeLiberty swimming the 200-yard freestyle in 1:57.91 and Guccione taking second in the 200-yard butterfly with a 2:11.29.
• The Rams capped the race off with a number one finish in the final race of the day, the 200-yard freestyle relay. The team of Anderson, DeLiberty, Blake and Whalen took first and 11 points along with it.

Up Next

Rhody will travel north to Burlington, Vt. to take on the Catamounts of the University of Vermont on Saturday, Jan. 21. The meet is scheduled to begin at noon and will be free on live stream on CatamounTV.