Final Scores After Friday1. Minnesota 410.502. Mich 3373. Wis 317.504. PSU 3145. Northwestern 3126. IU 2377. OSU 182.508. Ill 152.509. Purdue 15110.Iowa 14811.MSU 82
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -
The Purdue women's swimming and diving moved up one spot to ninth place Friday night at the Big Ten Swimming and Diving Championships. The Boilers have a total of 151 points, trailing Illinois by 1.50 and leading Iowa by three. Minnesota leads the meet with 410.50 followed by Michigan at 337. Both freshman Lindsay Lange and junior Ginger Lakos came up big for the Boilermakers with third and fifth place finishes, respectively, in the 100 breast and 200 free. Lange set the school record in the 100 breast earlier in the day when she swam a 1:02.69 in the preliminaries. The Boilers also garnered points from consolation swimmers Kelly Mackus, Patricia Finnerty and Lisa Dolansky.
The 200 medley relay got things started for Purdue Friday night scoring 26 points in their fifth place finish. The team of Dolansky, Lange, Finnerty, and Lakos not only crushed their previous season best time (1:46.28) with a 1:44.44, but also touched out both Illinois and Iowa, giving Purdue valuable points over two of their closest competitors.
Mackus followed the relay team in the 400 IM. The sophomore, seeded eighth in the consolation ended up fifth with a career best 4:26.84 and six points for the team. Teammate Patricia Finnerty finished fifth in the consolation and 13th overall in the 100 butterfly. Seeded 13th the freshman added four points to the Boilermaker tally.
It was then time for Purdue's big guns to get into the action. Lakos was the first Boilermaker to swim a top eight time in an event thus far in the competition. Seeded sixth, the Hungarian Olympic hopeful, swam the second fastest 200 free in Purdue school history with a 1:50.12, good enough for a fifth place finish and 14 points for Purdue.
Not to be out done Lange followed up Lakos' performance swimming a 1:02.71 in the final of the 100 breast. The freshman, narrowly missing her own school record, finished third in the event becoming the first Boilermaker since Erika Whyte in 1996 to finish in the top three at the conference meet. Lange's 16-point performance gave the Boilers a huge boost in the standings heading in the 100 back.
Freshman Lisa Dolansky finished seventh in the 100 back consolation heat giving the Purdue point total an extra two. Molly MacFarlane's ninth place finish in three-meter diving upped the Purdue score another nine points, as junior missed making the finals by a narrow 5.45 points.
The 800 free relay team of Kim Paradeise, Katie Mullarkey, Mackus and Lakos finished ninth in the final event of the night.
The Boilermakers will wrap up the conference meet tomorrow with the prelims of the 200 back at 11 a.m.
Final results may be found at www.bigtenchampionships.com.