ALLIANCE, Ohio (Feb. 4)- The Saint Vincent women's swimming team traveled to Alliance, Ohio to take on Mount Union in a non-conference meet to conclude the regular season. The Bearcats fell in the meet by a score of 153-109.
 
The Bearcats won their first event of the day in the 100-yard backstroke. Lauren Connors brought home the win for Saint Vincent in the event as she swam a time of 1:01.62. Connors also won the 200-yard IM event, swimming a time of 2:19.95, five seconds ahead of Charlotte Cohagan of Mount Union who finished in second place.
 
Along with her win in the 100-backstroke and 200-yard IM, Connors recorded a second-place finish in the 200-yard backstroke. In the 200-backstroke she swam a time of 2:18.37, finishing just behind Lexi Schuller of Mount Union.
 
Sara Basala also recorded an individual win for Saint Vincent as she won the 100-yard breaststroke. Basala swam a time of 1:11.89, which was just under one-second ahead of her teammate Maddy Cassidy.
 
Basala also recorded a second-place finish in the 200-yard breaststroke. She swam a time of 2:39.84, just over one second behind her teammate Emma Martz, who won the event, swimming a time of 2:38.86.
 
Abby Leskovansky won the 50-yard freestyle event for the Bearcats. Leskovansky swam a time of 25.59, one tenth of a second ahead of her teammate Erica Steele, who finished in second place in the event.
 
Steele also finished in second place in the 200-yard freestyle event, swimming a time of 2:03.19, just behind Abby Calaway of Mount Union who finished in first place. She also finished in second place in the 100-yard freestyle, swimming a time of 55.47, just over one second behind Calaway once again.
 
Sarah Alexander had a second-place finish in the meet as well. Alexander finished in second in the 1000-yard freestyle event. She swam a time of 11:37.65 to finish just behind Emma Kreber of Mount Union who finished in first place.
 
The Bearcats will return to action in a couple of weeks for the President's Athletic Conference Championships at Grove City College. The four-day event will start on Wednesday, February 15 and go through February 18.