Katie Morgan (Westfield, Jr.) won the 200-yard breaststroke to help The College of New Jersey’s women’s swimming team to a 183-110 victory over Rowan recently. Morgan, out of Westfield High, touched the wall in 2:28.73. She also got third place in the 1,000-yard freestyle with a 11:16.84 clocking, as the winner checked in at the 10:37.38 mark. Second place in this race went to Rowan’s Julie Furdyna (Livingston, Jr.), who made it through in 11:11.68. Furdyna, who graduated from Livingston High, also got second money in the 500-yard freestyle (her 5:31.83 against a winning 5:12.67) and was fifth in the 200- yard freestyle (her 2:08.53 against the winner’s 1:58.94).

Penn’s Stephanie Nerby (Summit, Sr.) won two races in her final home meet, as the Quakers downed LaSalle, 188-110, last Wednesday. Nerby, a Summit High grad, was first to finish in both the 200-yard freestyle, which she swam in 1:53.72, and the 500-yard freestyle, which she finished in 5:00.87.

Alexis Kalevich (New Providence, Sr.) won the 100-yard breaststroke in her last meet at Northeastern’s Barletta Natatorium, as the Huskies defeated Dartmouth, 172-123, in a dual meet on Saturday. Kalevich, a New Providence High grad, touched the wall in 1:07.02. Her twin sister Victoria (New Providence, Sr.) scored points for Northeastern in two events. She was fourth in both the 200-yard butterfly, which she swam in 2:14.55 against the winner’s 2:09.03, and the 100-yard butterfly, which she needed 1:00.88 to complete, with the winner in at 58.23.

Catherine Maguire (Westfield, Fr.) and Cassandra Farnow (Chatham, Fr.) both scored points for Amherst in their 177-109 victory over Springfield in the Amherst pool on Saturday. Maguire, a Westfield High grad, contested the breaststroke at two distances. She placed second at 100 yards, in which she finished in 1:12.69, exactly three seconds behind the winner, and she came in third at 200 yards with a 2:36.24 clocking against a winning 2:31.80. Farnow, out of Morristown-Beard, was runner-up in the 200-yard backstroke, which she completed in 2:15.37, bettered only by the winner’s 2:11.58.

Georgetown’s Christina Daquila (New Providence, Fr.) earned a third-place finish in the 500-yard freestyle in a dual meet with Maryland on Friday in Washington, D.C. Daquila, a Pingry grad, needed 5:12.95 to get the distance, while the winner was home in 5:06.64. Maryland outscored the Hoyas, 169.5-81.5.

Vermont’s Emily Healy (Summit, Fr.) took fourth place in the 400-yard individual medley at a tri-meet with Williams and Middlebury at the latter’s pool this past weekend. Healy, a Summit High product, finished in 4:43.09, with the winner home in 4:36.60.

Middlebury won the 400-yard freestyle relay, with Briehan Burke (Summit, Fr.) taking the second leg for the Panthers. Burke graduated from Pingry before attending Middlebury.

Chapman University’s Taylor Hartman (Chatham, Fr.) finished second and third in two events in a recent dual meet with California Institute of Technology. Hartman was third in the 200-yard individual medley, which she swam in 2:31.61 against the winner’s 2:22.94, and was the runner-up in the 100-yard breaststroke, which she needed 1:16.74 to finish; the winner got home in 1:10.10.

Rachel Lieberberg (Short Hills, Fr.) produced third- and fifth-place finishes for Hamilton in their 127-112 home victory over Rensselaer on Saturday. Lieberberg, a Millburn High grad, got third place in the 100-yard freestyle, which she finished in 58.89, with the winner needing 54.54. She was fifth in the freestyle at 50 yards, with a time of 26.98 against a winning 24.89.

MEN’S SWIMMING

Providence College’s Matt Green (Westfield, Soph.) got second place in the 50-yard freestyle in a tri-meet with Boston College and Bryant on Saturday. Green swam the distance in 22.74, with the winner in at 22.67. Green, a Westfield High alum, also got fourth place in the 200-yard individual medley, which he finished in 2:06.89, against the winner’s 1:54.58.

The Williams College duo of Eddie Layng (Summit, Sr.) and Sam Blum (Westfield, Sr.) finished 1-2 in the 200-yard butterfly in a tri-meet with Dartmouth and Middlebury at the latter’s pool this past weekend. Layng was home in the finals in 2:02.66 (more than a full second slower than his prelims time), while Blum was along in 2:05.16. Both have a long history together, having attended Pingry before heading north to Williams.

Connecticut College’s Grant Moryan (Westfield, Sr.) won one event, finished second in another and anchored a winning relay spin in a dual meet with Bates in Wellesley, Massachusetts on Saturday. Moryan, who prepped at Oratory, won the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 22.04 and was second in the freestyle at 100 yards, which he completed in 48.89 against the winner’s 48.83. Moryan also swam the fourth and final leg for the Camels in the 200-yard freestyle relay, which they won by more than two seconds. ConnColl outscored Bates, 190-103.

Gettysburg defeated Dickinson, 108-97, last Wednesday with Brencis Navia (Summit, Fr.) scoring points for the winning Bullets. Navia, a Summit High grad, finished second in the 100-yard breaststroke. His time of 1:05.09 was bettered only by the winner’s 1:03.13.

Gettysburg then hosted Franklin & Marshall on Saturday, with the Diplomats returning home 122-83 victors. Max Blum (Westfield, Fr.) picked up points for Franklin & Marshall with a third-place finish in the 1,000-yard freestyle. His time was 10:35.98, with the winner having won in 10:15.75. He also tried the freestyle at 500 yards, placing fourth with a 5:10.89 clocking against the winner’s 4:53.71.

Navia, meanwhile, came out of the pool with fourth- and fifth-place finishes. He was fifth in the 200-yard individual medley, which he completed in 2:08.76 against the winner’s 2:01.00, and fourth in the 200-yard breaststroke, which he swam in 2:26.52, while the winner got home in 2:10.60. Joining him in the pool for the latter race was teammate Matt Blutfield (Westfield, Soph.), who got seventh place with a 2:31.08 clocking.

Penn’s Christopher Fleming (Short Hills, Fr.) helped put points on the board for the Quakers as they took the measure of LaSalle, 173-122, at home last Wednesday. Fleming, a Millburn High product, got second place in the 500-yard freestyle, with a 4:48.71 clocking exceeded only by the winner’s 4:38.68, and he finished fourth in the freestyle at 200 yards, which he finished in 1:46.85, with the winner in at 1:45.26.

Binghamton’s Jason Chen (Livingston, Jr.) took second place in the 100-yard freestyle as the Bearcats defeated visiting Stony Brook, 162-113, on Saturday. Chen, a Livingston High alum, touched the wall in 48.47, exceeded only by the winner’s 47.86.

The College of New Jersey’s Evan Paulan (Westfield, Fr.) finished second in the 200-yard backstroke as the Lions defeated Rowan, 177-122, in a recent dual meet. Paulan, out of Westfield High, got the distance in 2:02.57, while the winner got past him in 2:01.93.

John Feminella (Millburn, Fr.) finished third in the 50-yard freestyle for Trinity (Conn.) in a dual meet won by Roger Williams College, 181-115, on Saturday. Feminella, who prepped at Millburn High, finished in 23.18, while the winner was in at 22.99.

MEN’S GYMNASTICS

Minnesota’s Tom O’Brien (Westfield, Sr.) tied for fourth place in the rings segment of a recent meet hosted by the Gophers that attracted Nebraska, Air Force and the Calgary Dinosaurs. O’Brien, a Westfield High product, scored 14.300. The top score among the 22 contestants in that event was 14.700. Minnesota topped the team scoring.

William & Mary’s Kyle Sneeden (New Providence, Soph.) scored sixth of 12 contestants in the parallel bars in a recent dual meet between the Tribe and Penn State. Sneeden’s 13.550 was second best of the six Tribesmen who performed in that event. Penn State won the team scoring, 341.450-321.400.

WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS

Rutgers’ Nicole Romano (Livingston, Fr.) scored a career-best 9.625 in the vault in a quad meet hosted by the University of Pittsburgh on Friday. Romano, a Livingston High grad, took 15th place in the event. Teamwise, Rutgers finished third behind Pitt and Iowa State, and ahead of Brockport State.

MEN’S SQUASH

Richard Keating (Short Hills, Fr.) won two of three individual matches as Bates took third place in the New England Small College Athletic Conference tournament in Hartford, Connecticut over the weekend. Playing in the seven spot, he began with a 3-0 (11-5, 11-7, 11-8) victory over Amherst’s Todd Lavine in a match that Bates won, 8-1. Bates then lost to Williams, 6-3, with Keating dropping a match at no. 8 to Bernard Yaros, 3-0 (11-9, 11-3, 11-4). The third-place match saw Bates eke by Bowdoin, 5-4, with Keating prevailing at no. 8 over Andrew Hilboldt, 3-1 (9-11, 13-11, 11-4, 11-2).

Bowdoin ended up in the third-place match after an opening-round victory over Middlebury, 8-1, followed by a loss to Trinity by a similar score. David Funk (Short Hills, Sr.) needed five sets to dispose of Middlebury’s Jay Dolan at no. 2, but he outlasted him, 3-2 (5-11, 11-8, 3-11, 11-4, 12-10). Peter Cipriano (Summit, Sr.) had an easier time in the four spot, disposing of Spencer Hurst, 3-0 (11-8, 11-1, 11-4). Both men suffered 3-0 losses against Trinity; Funk lost to Parth Sharma, 11-5, 11-7, 14-12, while Christopher Binnie handled Cipriano, 11-3, 11-7, 11-8. The Bates match found Funk defeating Jordan Greenberg, 3-0 (11-6, 11-5, 11-9), with Cipriano losing to Robert Burns, 3-1 (3-11, 11-9, 11-8, 11-5).

Tufts’ Scott Leighton (Summit, Sr.) split four matches at the NESCAC event. The Jumbos pounded Connecticut College, 8-1, in the first round, with Leighton registering a 3-0 (11-2, 11-5, 11-8) win over Charlie Bolton at no. 8. Tufts then lost Saturday matches to Williams, 9-0, and Amherst, 6-3. Leighton fell to Williams’ Alec Greaves-Tunnell, 3-0 (11-5, 11-7, 11-6), but got past Amherst’s Lee Banta, 3-1 (11-6, 11-7, 10-12, 11-6). The Jumbos then knocked off Hamilton, 6-3, although Leighton dropped his match to Brett Morell, 3-1 (11-8, 1-11, 11-7, 12-10).

As for Banta (Westfield, Sr.) and Amherst, they began with a 9-0 triumph over Wesleyan. Banta took care of Kyle Baicker-McKee, 3-0 (12-10, 11-4, 11-7) in a match at no. 8. The Lord Jeffs then were shutout by Bates, 9-0, with Banta dropping his match to Eric Bedell, 3-0 (11-4, 11-7, 11-7). Then came the Tufts/Leighton match, followed by Amherst’s 7-2 loss to Middlebury, although Banta defeated Simon Keyes, 3-1 (10-12, 11-0, 11-8, 11-8).

Hamilton and Hal Lee (Short Hills, Jr.) began the NESCAC tourney with a 5-4 win over Colby. Lee, slotted at no. 5, dispatched Daniel Lesser, 3-0 (14-12, 11-3, 11-3). The Continentals were bounced out of championship contention in the next round by top-seeded Trinity, 8-1. Lee fell short against William Burchfield, 3-0 (11-2, 11-3, 11-6). An 8-1 loss to Middlebury followed, with Lee losing to Micah Wood, 3-0 (11-8, 11-5, 11-6). Hamilton then lost the seventh-place match to Tufts, with Lee dropping his match to Ben Rind, 3-1 (11-7, 11-6, 4-11, 11-7).

In non-NESCAC action, Dartmouth hosted Princeton and Penn over the weekend, losing 9-0 to the Tigers and defeating the Quakers, 6-3. After suffering a 3-0 (11-7, 11-5, 11-7) loss to Princeton’s Santiago Imberton, the Big Green’s Brian O’Toole (Short Hills, Soph.) came back to throttle Penn’s James Clark, 3-1 (11-9, 6-11, 11-5, 12-10). O’Toole’s matches were both at the five spot.

WOMEN’S SQUASH

Harvard’s Katherine O’Donnell (Madison, Sr.) split her two weekend matches. Playing no. 6, O’Donnell defeated Penn’s Anna Madeira, 3-0 (13-11, 11-7, 11-6), as the Crimson knocked off the Quakers, 8-1, on Saturday. Then, on Sunday, Harvard got past Princeton, 6-3, although O’Donnell lost her match to Kaitlin Sennatt, 3-0 (12-10, 12-10, 11-8).

Yale trounced Brown, 8-1, in Providence, R.I. on Saturday, with Aly Kerr (Short Hills, Soph.) turning in a 3-0 (11-6, 11-7, 11-9) victory over Carolyn Tilney at the seven position.

Dana Russo (Livingston, Sr.) may have been playing the nine spot, but her win against St. Lawrence loomed large as Franklin & Marshall eked out a 5-4 win on Saturday. Russo registered a 3-0 (11-0, 11-6, 11-3) triumph over Kendall Harty. Previously, the Diplomats lost, 9-0, to Cornell, with Russo dropping a 3-1 (11-9, 6-11, 11-5, 11-3) verdict to Izzy Spyrou. Franklin & Marshall then routed William Smith, 9-0, on Sunday, as Russo defeated Anne Habecker, 3-0 (11-7, 11-7, 11-8).

Hamilton’s Alyssa Bawden (Short Hills, Soph.) won two and lost two at the NESCAC tournament over the weekend. Bawden, playing no. 3, started out with a 3-1 (11-1, 11-8, 12-14, 11-4) victory over Connecticut College’s Lucie Nadler, as Hamilton advanced with a 9-0 victory. They then lost in the next round to Bates, 8-1, as Bawden dropped her match to Whitney Roller, 3-0 (11-5, 11-3, 11-5). Hamilton then knocked off Colby, 6-3, despite Bawden losing to Maddie Dufour, 3-2 (10-12, 11-8, 11-6, 6-11, 11-7). Hamilton then closed the event out with a 6-3 loss to Amherst, although Bawden defeated A. Dalglich, 3-1 (11-2, 7-11, 11-8, 11-8).

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Stevens Tech traveled to Poughkeepsie, New York on Friday, where they lost to Vassar, 3-0 (30-25, 30-26, 30-27). Brandt Grobeis (Livingston, Jr.) had 40 assists for the Ducks, along with 11 digs, three kills and two aces. Stevens (7-2) returned to their home court in Hoboken on Saturday, when they downed Endicott, 3-1 (30-17, 30-23, 26-30, 30-21), and MIT, 3-0 (30-22, 30-23, 30-26). Grobeis, out of Livingston High, had 57 assists, six digs and three aces against Endicott, and 38 assists against MIT.

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Columbia began the spring season with victories over Stony Brook, 5-2, and Fairleigh Dickinson, 6-1. Natalia Christenson (Summit, Jr.) was victorious at third doubles in both matches with Diana Shapoval. They defeated Stony Brook’s Aylin Mehter and Fanny Charliquart, 8-6, and the FDU tandem of Ksenia Chernyshova and Jinny DeCarlos, 8-2.

Ana Mungo (Summit, Jr.) led Duquesne to a 7-0 shutout of Wright State recently. Mungo, who transferred out of UMBC after last season, dispatched Kenisha Webb, 6-2, 6-0. She also joined Samantha Noble at second doubles for an 8-0 victory over Amanda Albuquerque and Taylor Hines.