Women’s Swimming Falls to Kean in Dual Meet

December 2, 2023

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HOBOKEN, N.J. (October 28, 2023) – Sophomore Natalia Brunetti and junior Sophie Patz each won a pair of individual races, but the Stevens Institute of Technology women’s swimming team fell to Kean University 163-99 Saturday in a non-conference dual meet at the DeBaun Aquatic Center.

Sophomores Adriana Bertolotti and Gabby Tyer combined for four second-place, and one third-place finishes for the Ducks, who dropped to 0-3 in duals.

Alisa Dovbyna and Emma Bellars each won a pair of individual races to pace Kean, who improved to 2-0. The Cougars have won two of the three all-time meetings between the programs and Saturday’s dual was the first contested between the programs in Hoboken.

Patz won the 200-yard backstroke in 2:13.94 and closed out her day with a first-place finish in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:15.37. As an individual, Patz totaled 20 points, tops of any swimmer in the field. Brunetti, meanwhile, won the 200-yard butterfly in 2:15.89 and she would go on to win the 100 Fly in 1:01.10. It is the second straight meet that Brunetti won both the 100- and 200 Fly and both marks are tops in the Middle Atlantic Conference to date. Patz now holds the top time in the conference in the 200 Back.

As a team, the Ducks won four of the 14 events and had seven second-place finishes.

Top Performers

Juniors Melissa Misurelli and Kai Wong also collected a pair of second-place finishes. Individually, Misurelli placed second in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 2:04.65 and joined Wong as part of the 400-yard freestyle relay squad that took second in the final event of the day with a time of 3:46.50. Sophomore Gabby Sokolik swam the opening leg before giving way to senior Keenan Yates, Misurelli and then Wong. In addition to her performance in the 400, Wong began her day by swimming the third leg of the 200-yard medley relay squad that finished in 1:51.38, getting out-touched by eight-hundredths-of-a-second. Sokolik closed out the race to collect her first top-two finish of the day.

Yates took second in the 50-yard freestyle, touching the wall in 25.76 seconds, which is the seventh-fastest time in the conference to date.

For the Opponents

Bellars won all four of her races – two individual and two relays – to lead all swimmers with a total of four first-place finishes. She began her day by swimming the final leg of the 200-yard medley relay, before winning both the 200- and 50-yard freestyle races. She closed her day as the opening leg of the 400-yard freestyle relay to bookend the meet.

Around the Middle Atlantic Conference

FDU-Florham 142, Western Connecticut 36

Widener 187, Hood 66

Messiah 211, Hood 44

Messiah 165, Widener 95

Cedar Crest 126, Lebanon Valley 95

Bryn Mawr 173, Lebanon Valley 58

Ursinus 122, York 63

King’s vs. Marywood – No Team Scores

Albright, Arcadia, Misericordia and Stevenson were off.

Coach’s Comments

“Solid racing today for us. We went for a lot of season bests and had tremendous energy. Our 200 Medley Relay had a great race to open the meet. Potentially our strongest relay, we have dropped time in that relay every meet which makes us very excited. Individually, we had some great races by Sophie Patz, Nat Brunetti, Adriana Bertolotti, Melissa Misurelli and Gabby Tyer. Although we were hoping for a closer outcome, we are happy with a lot of our swims. What’s even more encouraging is that we keep racing better and faster as the season progresses.” – head coach Adam Schneider

Up Next

Stevens returns to the pool on Friday, Nov. 3 for the opening day of the two-day NYU Fall Invitational, hosted by the Violets at their Palladium Athletic Facility. The championship-style meet will be contested over a pair of days, with the final set of races taking place one day later. Appropriate event links will be posted to StevensDucks.com once available.

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