BEREA, OHIO – The Baldwin Wallace University women's swimming and diving teams defeated new Ohio Athletic Conference foe Defiance College and Ursuline College today in the BW Natatorium inside the Lou Higgins Center.

The BW women, now 4-5 overall and 1-2 in the OAC, beat Defiance, 122-36 and the Ursuline women, 106-61.

The BW women were led by junior All-OAC and Academic All-OAC breaststroker Angela Musille (Canton/GlenOak) won both the 1000-yard and 500-yard freestyle events. She won the 1000 in 11:19.79 and captured the 500 in 5:30.32. In addition, sophomore freestyler Kayla Eyster (Canton, Mich./Plymouth-Canton) won the 100-yard free in 58.58 seconds and she combined with sophomore Emily Payne (Ligonier, Pa./Ligonier Valley), Olivia Vocke (Napoleon) and Maddie Fortune (Akron/Firestone) on the winning 200-yard free relay in 1:55.99.

Other individual winners included freshman Chandler Ashbaugh (Napoleon) in the 200 free in 2:04.01, junior All-OAC competitor Emma Gerdes (Avon) in the 200-yard individual medley in 2:24.50, junior Caitlin Wilson (Broadview Heights/Brecksville/ Broadview Hts.) in the 200-yard butterfly in 2:27.78 and Contessa Elliott (Ypsilanti, Mich.) in the 200-yard backstroke in 2:36.88.

The Yellow Jackets are idle until the new year.  The BW tankers begin the 2013 portion of the schedule on January 1 when the teams travel to Sarasota, Florida for their annual Fall/Winter Break trip from Jan. 1-12. BW will swim against OAC foe Transylvania (Ky.) University on Jan. 5 in Sarasota.

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