Issue date: 11/3/08 Section: Sports

Senior Sheila Dugan swims the 100-yard breaststroke during the meet against Ball State on Oct. 11 in Padovan Pool. (Eric Hiltner | Daily Eastern News)

The Eastern men's and women's swimming teams lost their dual meet against Illinois-Chicago on Saturday afternoon at Flames Natatorium in Chicago.

The men's team lost 164-64 and the women's team lost 161-74. The losses dropped both teams to 1-3 on the season.

The Panthers picked up their only first place finishes in their last four events, while competing against themselves, as the Flames had already clinched the victory.

Eastern junior Laura Nielsen placed second in both the 200-yard individual medley and 100-yard backstroke, and sophomore Cody Showers finished second in the 100-yard butterfly.

Eastern head coach Matt Bos said he was happy with his team's performance despite being swept by the Flames.

"Individual performances were outstanding," Bos said. "We probably had our hardest training this week, and UIC has two very hard teams. We had multiple lifetime and season best times. Considering how hard we've been training, I was extremely happy."

Eastern junior Kelly Logterman had a lifetime best time of 2 minutes 6.67 seconds in the 200-yard freestyle and a lifetime best 1:00.40 in the 100-yard butterfly. Sophomore Megan Eshleman also had a lifetime best of 11:03.64 in the 1000-yard freestyle.

"Kelly had a really good week, and Megan had one of the fastest times we've had Eastern in the last couple years," Bos said.

Freshman Matt O'Hagan had a lifetime best in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:00.03. He swam a 1:00.11 against Ball State on Oct. 11.

"Matt's coming off one of his hardest training weeks ever, and I thought he did really well," Bos said.

Bos said he was happy with the performance considering how hard the training had been the past week.

"It's a good sign when they can race so well coming off of such a hard week of training," Bos said. "When they're tired and broken down after training hard, it can be hard for them to swim their best."

Bos said Eastern would continue to swim dual meets after hard weeks of training because it will help them out in the long run.

"We're going to continue training hard on a regular basis," he said. "While we're tired, we're going to continue to have these dual meets every week. We have to basically focus on our few big meets and try to get our best times."

The Panthers return to action with a dual meet at 5:30 p.m. Nov. 14 against Western Illinois in Macomb.



Ari Horing can be reached at 581-7944 or at akhoring@eiu.edu.

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