COLCHESTER, Vt. - Saint Michael's College men's swimming & diving sophomore Rafael Kowal (Plattsburgh, N.Y./Plattsburgh/Alfred State) set a school record in the 400-yard individual medley and Eileen Hall became the winningest head coach in the women's program's history on Saturday with a sweep of Keene State College in the Ross Sports Center. The men bested the Owls, 179-52, while the women earned a 163.5-79.5 victory. Hall claimed her 58th win guiding the women, breaking a tie with Dave Leonard, who coached from 1991 to 1998.
 
MEN'S MEET
NOTES

• Saint Michael's (3-1), Keene State (2-1)
• The Purple Knights won their third straight in the series for the first time since a five-meet run between 1986 and 1990

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Junior Will Englehardt (Sparta, N.J./Sparta), 3 wins
  • Matched Payton Stewart '21 for 10th in program history in total career wins (40)
  • Tied William Sullivan '23 for fourth in program history in career relay wins (25)
• Junior Thomas Kane (Sparta, N.J./Pope John XXIII Regional), 3 wins
  • Passed Jeff Brazinsky '91 (53) for second in program history in total career wins (54)
  • Passed Payton Stewart '21 (26) for second in program history in career relay wins (27)
• Sophomore Connor Quirbach (Lowell, Mass./Chelmsford), 3 wins
  • Tied Jeff Brazinsky '91 and Pat Thornton '19 for eighth in program history in career relay wins (16), passing Nate Imbergamo '22 (15)
• Sophomore Rafael Kowal (Plattsburgh, N.Y./Plattsburgh/Alfred State), 2 wins
  • Broke Aidan Mulderrig's '20 nearly five-year-old 400 IM school record (4:23.88) by 2.57 seconds
  • Claims the distinction of holding two schools' 400 IM school records after swimming to a time of 4.12:34 for Alfred State College last February
• Sophomore Sebastian Revesz (Bedford, Mass./Bedford), 2 wins
• First-year Emanuel Cuarta (Davie, Fla./Western), 2 wins

THE ACTION

• Englehardt, Kane and Quirbach joined sophomore Ryan McCaffrey (Cedar Rapids, Iowa/George Washington) to win the 200-yard freestyle relay (1:32.68), while Kane sided with Cuarta, sophomore Alex Meek (Essex Junction, Vt./Essex) and first-year Hunter Cook (Garden City, N.Y./Chaminade) to take the 400-yard medley relay (3:50.67).
• Kane also won the 50 free (22.51), with Cook 0.23 seconds short of the top two and senior Aaron Bouchard (Plattsburgh, N.Y./Seton Catholic Central) 0.03 ticks behind him. Englehardt won the 200 free (1:51.58) and 200-yard butterfly (2:14.01), while Quirbach took the 100 free (49.14) and 1,000 free (10:35.00).
• Kowal topped the 400 IM (4:21.31) and 200-yard backstroke (2:00.98) fields, Cuarta won the 200-yard breaststroke (2:21.04), and Revesz took both one-meter diving competitions, with 106.50 points in the first and 154.60 in the second.
• First-year Liam Jordan (Mendon, Mass./Wellesley) won the 500 free (5:07.73), followed by classmate Cal Baird (Saratoga Springs, N.Y./Saratoga Springs), and was second in the 400 IM. First-year Hunter Daily (Amherst, N.H./Souhegan) finished as runner-up in the 200 breast and 200 free, McCaffrey was second in the 100 free, and senior Will Granger (Andover, Mass./Andover) placed second in the 200 fly, only 0.16 seconds ahead of sophomore Thorlief Prior (Luxembourg, Luxembourg/International School of Luxembourg). Meek was 0.46 seconds out of second place in the 200 back.
• Saint Michael's also had runner-up quartets in both relays. Kowal, McCaffrey, Prior and senior Trevor Johnson (Salem, Mass./Salem) sided in the 400 medley before Bouchard, Meek, Prior and first-year JJ Kane (Sparta, N.J./Pope John XXIII Regional) partnered in the 200 free.

WOMEN'S MEET
NOTES

• Saint Michael's (2-2), Keene State (2-1)
• The Purple Knights downed the Owls for the first time since Feb. 7, 1996, with what is believed to be their first home victory in the series since Jan. 14, 1993.

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Junior Jessie Hart (Canton, Mass./Canton), 3 wins
• First-year Ashley Meade (Belle Harbor, N.Y./Sacred Heart Academy), 3 wins
• First-year Ayden Walsh (Tallahassee, Fla./Creekside), 3 wins
• First-year Hannah Steen (Portsmouth, R.I./Portsmouth), 2 wins
• First-year Madeline Waldt (Abingdon, Md./The Catholic High School of Baltimore), 2 wins
  • Improved to 7-0 in distance freestyle races

THE ACTION

• Meade and Walsh swam for both victorious relays. In the 400 medley (4:16.85), they sided with Hart and Waldt before joining junior Margaret Wilk (Hardyston, N.J./Pope John XXIII Regional) and sophomore Katie Dzambo (Windermere, Fla./Bishop Moore) in the 200 free (1:46.14), winning by 0.37 seconds.
• Waldt won the 500 free (5:32.61) and Walsh the 200 free (2:03.10), with Dzambo runner-up in each. Hart took the 200 breast (2:36.27) and 1,000 free (12:09.79), and Steen claimed the 50 free (26.88) and 200 fly (2:31.10). Meade captured the 100 free (57.23), while sophomore Ashley Silveira (Seekonk, Mass./Seekonk) won the first 1M diving (130.85) before taking second in the second.
• Wilk was 200 back and 400 IM runner-up, senior Emily McLane (Morrisonville, N.Y./Peru) took second in the 100 free and 200 breast, and sophomore Riley Beaudoin (Groton, Mass./Groton-Dunstable Regional) was second in the 200 fly. McLane, senior Caroline Gust (North Andover, Mass./North Andover), junior Elaine Gillan (Rensselaer, N.Y./Rensselaer) and sophomore Livy Waranis (Narragansett, R.I./Narragansett) combined for a runner-up performance in the 400 medley relay.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S MEET

• Nov. 11 vs. Clarkson University, 1 p.m.