Rockets Drop Meet to Oakland, 170-118

Saturday, January 9

Toledo, OH

1:00 p.m.

University of Toledo

118

170

Oakland

Senior Lauren Comer finished in first-place in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 5:05.75.

1/9/2016 3:53:00 PM | Women's Swimming and Diving

TOLEDO, OH - The Toledo women's swimming and diving team fell 170-118 to Oakland University on Saturday afternoon at UT's Student Rec Center.

Seniors Lauren Comer, Samantha Richart and Brooke Edwards, and junior Jamie Schindler scored the Rocket's four victories against the Golden Grizzlies.

Comer scored in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 5:05.75 and Richart placed first in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:03.64.

Edwards overcame a battle against Oakland's Nikki Flynn to win the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:53.46.

Schindler scored a 276.53 in the three-meter dive, ahead of teammate Danielle Forbes who posted 239.55 points.

Toledo finished in second in six races, three of which were within .03 seconds of Oakland's first-place finishes. In the 200-yard breaststroke, sophomore Jessica Avery touched at 2:21.32, just .01 second behind Oakland's Rachel Waite's victory time.

Junior Rachael Hester swam a hard battle against Oakland's Krissy Harmon in the 1,000-yard freestyle. Harmon touched first with a time of 10:28.58, while Hester finished right after with a 10:28.60.

Sophomore Katrin Streicher battled Patricia Ashcan in the 200-yard butterfly. Streicher was unable to finish with a victory and posted a second place time of 2:06.60, just .03 seconds behind Ashcan's first-place finish.

Streicher also finished second in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 58.12.

Toledo took second in the 200-yard medley relay (1:46.85) and the 400-yard freestyle relay (3:32.84).

"I thought our girls set their races up well," head coach Chris Peters said. "We just need to work on finishing. Hopefully some of those close finishes stung a little bit and we can learn from them going forward."

The Rockets travel to Muncie, IN next weekend for a dual meet against Ball State. The meet is set to begin at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 23.

UT returns home on Saturday, Jan. 30 to host Buffalo at 1:00 p.m. in the Student Rec Center. Toledo's five seniors will be honored before the meet begins.