Swimming and Diving

Kakimseit Helps Adelphi Take Lead Following Third Day at Championship

Adelphi Hold Narrow Edge Over Southern Connecticut in Men's Standings

WORCESTER, Mass. - Adelphi's Ryan Kakimseit helped put his team in a position to do something on Sunday it has never done before; win the Northeast-10 Conference Swimming & Diving Championship. 

The Adelphi men took a narrow lead in the standings on Saturday night over three-time reigning conference champion Southern Connecticut at the WPI Sports & Recreation Center. Kakimseit was part of three gold medal finishes in the 100 Fly, 100 Back and 200 Medley Relay, to highlight the Panthers' jump into the top spot. 

Southern Connecticut dominated on the women's side, as Brooke Keeney, Molly Kennedy and Justice Glasgow all recorded B-Cut times in their respective races to help the Owls to a 200-plus point advantage over the rest of the field. 

MEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING

Kakimseit tallied three gold medals on Saturday night - including successfully defending his titles in the 100 Fly and 100 Back from a year ago - to help put Adelphi in the lead. He swam the 100 Fly in 49.27 and the 100 Back in 49.60. 

Adelphi grabbed a pair of other first-place finishes from Connor Singer in the 100 Breast with a time of 55.69 and its 200 Medley Relay with a time of 1:30.93. Kakimseit and Singer swam the opening two legs of the race. 

Southern Connecticut is close behind Adelphi, as it picked up two more victories on Saturday with McAllistar Milne taking the 400 IM (4:00.12) and Franklin Kuhn chasing down the 200 Free title (1:41.12). The Owls trail by just 10 points heading into Sunday, as they look for their fourth-consecutive NE10 crown. 

1. Adelphi - 563 points
2. SCSU - 553 points
3. Bentley - 461 points
4. Saint Michael's - 289 points
5. Staten Island - 248 points
6. Pace - 159 points
7. Assumption - 139 points

WOMEN'S SWIMMING & DIVING

The trio of Keeney, Kennedy and Glasgow put Southern Connecticut well on its way to a fifth-straight NE10 Championship title, as each member of the trio picked up a B-Cut time on Saturday as part of the Owls' continued dominance. 

Kennedy claimed her fourth and fifth gold medals of the Championship with her swim of 1:51.90 in the 200 Free and as the final leg of the 200 Medley Relay (1:45.71). Glasgow posted a near-record time of 54.88 in the 100 Fly and swam the third leg of the 200 Medley Relay, while Keeney shaved six seconds off her preliminary time in the 400 IM to win gold in 4:26.21. 

Bentley's diving sensation Hilla Almog set a Championship and Open record in the women's 1-meter dive with a score of 469.20 - blowing past the previous record held by Bentley's Nicola Mancini in 2013 (453.60). 

Assumption's Sophia Lake won the 100 Breast (1:06.16) and Pace's Eugenia Morossi won the 100 Back (57.32) in other finishes. 

1. SCSU - 746 points
2. Bentley - 530 points
3. Felician - 356 points
4. Pace - 287 points
5. Assumption - 258 points
6. Adelphi - 233 points
7. Saint Michael's - 205 points
8. Staten Island - 179 points

UP NEXT

The NE10 Swimming & Diving Championship continues on Sunday morning with preliminary races. Visit northeast10.org to check for weather-related changes. All sessions of the Championship will be live streamed on NE10 NOW on FloSports. 

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