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WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Lycoming College head swimming coach Jerry Hammaker broke the last coaching record at the school that wasn’t his, winning his 82^nd dual meet with the men’s program to break Mort Rauff’s 40-year old mark, as the Warriors swept its season-ending Middle Atlantic Conference meet against Arcadia on Saturday, Jan. 19, at the Lamade Gym Natatorium. The men posted a 137-78 win and the women notched a 135-81 victory.
 
The Warrior men improved to 8-1 overall and 8-1 in the conference, finishing the dual meet season with its best record since the 1964-65 team finished 11-1, coincidentally the last time the team has won more than eight meets in a row – as that squad posted a school-record 11 dual meet wins in a row.
 
Hammaker, who is wrapping up his 12^th year at Lycoming, improved to 82-36 (.695) all-time with the men’s program, moving past Rauff, who went 81-69-2 (.529) with the program from 1960-73. Hammaker is also the women’s program’s all-time wins leader, as he has an 87-33-1 (.723) all-time record.
 
The men’s team posted wins in 10 of the meet’s 14 events and finished 1-2 in seven events to cruise to the 137-78 win.
 
Freshman Kyle Garase (Finleyville, Pa./Ringgold) and junior Jack Port (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Cedar Cliff) led the Warriors with two wins a piece. Garase notched a time of 1:53.18 to take the 200-yard freestyle and also notched a 54.44 to win the 100-yard butterfly. Port notched times of 2:14.55 to win the 200-yard butterfly and 2:15.96 to win the 200-yard backstroke.
 
Other individual wins came from freshman Josh Thomas (Fort Wayne, Ind./Concordia Lutheran), who won the 100-yard backstroke (59.70), sophomore Daniel Woods (East Stroudsburg, Pa./East Stroudsburg North), who took the 100-yard breaststroke (1:05.08), senior Nate Oropollo (Aldan, Pa./Cardinal O’Hara), who took the 50-yard freestyle (22.60) and junior Peter Fields (Burke, Va./Robinson), who won the 200-yard breaststroke (2:30.09).
 
Lycoming also swept the relays, with the team of Woods, freshman Dan Apostolu (Springfield, Pa./Springfield), Thomas and Oropollo posting a time of 1:43.92 in the 200-yard medley relay and the team of sophomore Kyle Petchock (Belle Mead, N.J./Montgomery), junior C.J. Arhontakis (West Grove, Pa./Avon Grove), Woods and Garase notching a time of 1:33.91 to win the 200-yard freestyle relay.
 
Arcadia’s men fell to 0-8-1 overall and 0-6-1 in the MAC.
 
On the women’s side, the team won its fourth straight dual meet to close out the season with a 7-3 overall record and a 6-3 mark in the MAC, led by two wins each from sophomores BethAnn Schwoyer (Williamsport, Pa./Homeschooled), Danielle Loiseau (Lancaster, Pa./Hempfield) and Lexi Follweiler (Coaldale, Pa./Panther Valley).
 
Arcadia fell to 2-8 overall and 0-7 in the MAC.
 
Schwoyer won both backstrokes, posting a time of 1:02.90 to take the 100 and 2:16.15 to take the 200. Loiseau posted wins in the 200-yard butterfly, notching a time of 2:23.28, and 500-yard freestyle with at time of 5:39.25 and Follweiler won the 100-yard freestyle (59.20) and 100-yard butterfly (1:05.70).
 
The Warriors also got individual wins from freshman Cathrin Manning (York, Pa./York Suburban), who posted a time of 1:18.33 to win the 100-yard breaststroke, senior Elisa Becker (Reston, Va./South Lakes), who notched a time of 27.50 to win the 50-yard freestyle, freshman Jilly Flynn (Murrysville, Pa./Franklin Regional), who posted a time of 2:47.92 to win the 200-yard breaststroke and junior Jennie Marosits (Mt. Lakes, N.J./Mt. Lakes) added a time of 5:24.29 to win the 400-yard individual medley.
 
Lycoming also swept the relays, with the team of Schwoyer, Flynn, Follweiler and Becker posting a time of 1:59.86 to take the 200-yard medley relay and the team of Loiseau, freshman Felicia Sloyer (East Greenville, Pa./Upper Perkiomen), sophomore Brigid Clark (Wyndmoor, Pa./Springfield) and Schwoyer took the 200-yard freestyle relay in 1:47.50.
 
During the meet’s second intermissions, Lycoming honored the six swimming seniors: Becker, Caitlin DeAngelo (Reading, Pa./Muhlenberg), Lindsey Hunsicker (Bethlehem, Pa./Liberty) and Hope Weber (Millersville, Pa./Penn Manor) from the women’s team and Jehiel Boner (Springville, Pa./Elk Lake) and Oropollo from the men’s team.
 
The Warriors will now have three weeks to prepare before starting the three-day Middle Atlantic Conference Championships at the Wilkes-Barre Catholic Youth Center. The event begins on Friday, Feb. 8 at 12 p.m.