PITTSBURGH - Duquesne opened the home portion of the 2018-19 schedule on Friday evening hosting Buffalo at Towers Pool. The visiting Bulls came away with a 219-77 victory over the Dukes.

Abigail Stauffer (Chambersburg, Pa./Chambersburg) won the 100-yard breaststroke for Duquesne with a time of 1:06.24 in the event. She added a second-place finish in the 50-yard breaststroke with a mark of 30.76 for the Dukes. In addition, Stauffer and teammates Emma Brinton (Landenburg, Pa./Avon Grove), Audrey Steen (San Pedro, Calif./San Pedro) and Carson Gross (York, Pa./York Suburban) posted a second-place mark in the 400-yard medley relay (3:55.79) while Stauffer, Steen, Kristen McKnight (Gibsonia, Pa./Hampton) and Morgan Smith (Chapel Hill, N.C./East Chapel Hill) placed second in the 200-yard medley relay (1:47.93) for Duquesne.

Brinton finished second in the 100-yard backstroke (58.71) and third in both the 400-yard IM (4:27.20) and the 50-yard backstroke (28.53) for the Dukes.

Steen placed second in the 50-yard backstroke (27.38) and third in the 100-yard IM (59.96) and 100-yard butterfly (59.18) on the evening.

Gross posted third-place showings in the 100-yard freestyle (53.95) and 200-yard freestyle (1:56.46) for Duquesne while McKnight and Summer Svitavsky (Willoughby, Ohio/Hawken) added third-place marks in the 50-yard butterfly (26.76) and the 500-yard freestyle (5:12.83), respectively for the Dukes.

Duquesne's 200-yard freestyle relay team of McKnight, Hanna Everhart (Bloomsburg, Pa./Bloomsburg Area), Gross and Smith began the meet with a third-place finish in the event at 1:38.97.

Head coach David Sheets: "Overall I was pleased with how we raced.  Buffalo is a good team and they swam very well. Our main focus was not to worry about Buffalo's races but to focus on our own. I think we did a nice job of that. Tomorrow will bring on another challenge with an even better Akron team. If we focus on taking care of our races and how we swim it will be a good meet for us."


NEXT UP
The Dukes return right back to action tomorrow hosting another team from the Mid-American Conference in Akron. The diving portion of the meet will take place at Carnegie Mellon University beginning at 11 a.m. followed by the swimmers against the Zips at 1 p.m. at Towers Pool.