January 24, 1998 - Loyola's latest match-up took place at home versus a small St. Peter's College squad on Saturday, Jan. 24. Confident that they would come out on top, the Hounds did not expect to see too much excitement from any of their races versus their MAAC foe. The Loyola men's team went on to rout the Peacocks by a score of 172-66. The Loyola women followed suit with a sound 159-48 victory over the Peahens. But there was much more excitement than anticipated as several school and pool records were broken.
The Greyhound relays were the featured events in Coach Brian Loeffler's line-up. The 200-meter medley relay team of Mark Gallagher, Tim Kelly, Ken Sposato and John Moore took first place by a comfortable margin and in the process, broke both the school and pool record for the event with a lightning fast time of 1:49.73. To close out the meet, Kelly, Moore, Sposato and Gallagher equaled their earlier feat by both winning and setting the school and pool standards in the 200-meter freestyle relay (1:38.15).
The record smashing was not finished there. Moore took the 200-meter freestyle in a school record-breaking time of 1:58.60. Sposato won the 100-meter butterfly with a record-crushing time of 59.80. Gallagher annihilated his heat to break his own school mark in the 100-meter backstroke (59.43).
Other winners for Loyola were Paul Blasucci in the 800-meter freestyle (9:31.74), Kelly in the 50-meter free (24.94), Jon Lang in the 200-meter I.M. (2:16.64) and 100-meter breastroke (1:11.48) and Vin Massey in the 100-meter free (55.50).
The diving tandem of Will Bryant and Jeff McCarthy finished first and second in both the one and three meter diving competitions.
The Lady Hounds started and finished their meet in straong fashion. Loyola swept both relay events, exemplifying the larger squad that they possesed. The team of Hilary Flint, Star Moran, Kate Nally and Christine Gahagan took the medley relay (2:11.19) while Alison Bailey, Jenny Redfield, Michelle Russo and Gahagan took the free relay.
Individual winners included Russo in the 50-meter free (29.24), Flint in the 100-meter butterfly (1:10.28) and the 100-meter backstroke (1:11.44), Redfield in the 100-meter freestyle (1:05.39) and Moran in the 100-meter breastroke (1:25.41). Sarah Hewes, Nally, and Brooks Palermo swept the 400-meter freestyle. Kathleen Griffin and Marlow Perkins took first and second respectively in the one- and three-meter diving competitions.
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