Saturday Preliminary Results

Ralph Porrazzo's championships record and NCAA "B" cut highlighted Albright's performance in Saturday's preliminaries at the MAC swimming championship meet.

Porrazzo swam 51.64 in the 100 back, breaking the championships record and earning the top seed. It was Albright's first NCAA qualifying time of the season.

Adam Kurtz was fourth, qualifying for the A final, and Dan Cahill was 13th to make the B final.

Also earning a top seed was Adam Vogel in the 400 IM (4:20.09). Sam Rosenthal was fourth and Matt Bauer was fifth. Chris Longworth made the B final in 13th.

Kurtz is the second seed in the 100 fly, with a preliminary time of 53.22. Drew Leahy (fourth) and Tim Pierce (6th) also made the top heat, while Bobby McNair (10th) also qualified.

Freshman Rick Sutton will be the second seed in the 200 free (1:46.93), and is joined in the A final by Mike McBride, Rainer Floeter and Sean Spellacy.

Josh Park (fifth) made the A final in the 100 breast, while Richard Edwards was ninth in the prelims.

Senior Aimee Snyder will be the top seed in the 400 IM, with a time of 4:48.95. Amanda Osterlind, Liz Muller and Kari Keller gave the Lions four of the top six seeds.

Freshman Gwen Stefan (1:59.57) grabbed the second seed in the 200 free, while Katy Oeste (eighth) also got herself into the A final.

Kaitlyn Huizing (1:00.37) and Tricia Janowiak went 3-4 in the 100 back prelims. Codi Herr was fourth in the 100 fly prelims (1:00.54), while Madison Hauk (12th) and Danielle Hassard (16th) will swim in the B final.

Keller is the fourth seed in the 100 breast (1:10.39), while Lauren Cormier (seventh) and Emily Summers (eighth) gave the Lions three spots in the top heat.

Final heats will begin at 5 p.m. tonight.