ITHACA, N.Y. – The Ithaca College women's swimming & diving program maintained its lead at the conclusion of the second day of the 12^th Annual Bomber Invitational on Saturday. Ithaca used a slew of steady results and have totaled 1,066 team points and trailing IC are Middlebury College, Hamilton, University of Rochester and Vassar College rounds out the top-five.

The first event of the Saturday morning swimming session was the 200-yard freestyle relay, which saw Hamilton's "A" (1:36.37) and Ithaca's "A" (1:23.89) relay teams take first and second place, respectively. Just on the Middlebury heels were the Bombers relay squad that consisted of Angela Merch, Sierra Houck, Naomi Fry and Samantha Bender as they combined to put together a time of 1:37.83.

The next event was event 14, which was the grueling 400-yard IM that saw Vassar's Anna Little win her respective heat to top the field with a recorded time of 4:17.26. The top finisher for the Bombers was first year Kathleen Papiernik who came in fourth place as she touched the final wall with a time of 4:39.73.

Papiernik proved to be the top IC finisher in the 100-yard butterfly as she scored a second-place finish with a time of 58.10, which was over six seconds faster than her seed time coming into the event. She was bested by Hamilton's Jade Matthias who won her heat and the event with a time of 57.02.

The Bombers would then see both Naomi Fry and Samantha Bender finish third and fourth, respectively in the 200-yard freestyle. The top-4 finishers times proved to be extremely close with Addie Wiener winning the event with a time of 1:55.36. Fry was third touching the final wall in her heat at 1:55.73 and right behind her producing a 1:55.89 was Samantha Bender who earned IC 26 team points.

In the final event of the morning swimming session, the Bombers relay squad of Katie Champagne, Spencer Carroll, Samantha Bender and Naomi Fry came up with a fifth-place result in the 400-yard medley relay. They put together a finals time of 4:02.98, with Hamilton winning the final heat with a time of 3:57.10.

The 3-meter diving competition saw the Bombers dominate the field with Abby Marraccino coming out on top against all 19 other divers as she put together a finals score of 490.45. Coming in second was junior Kailee Payne (475.55) and Audrey Scott earned a third-place finish totaling a score of 469.75. Rounding out the top-10 finishers for Ithaca was Angela Burke (464.75) who was fifth, Jenell Slesser (462.50) who was sixth, coming in seventh was Eliza Salus (455.55) and coming home in ninth place was Natalie Soloway who totaled a finals score of 409.70.

The 200-yard butterfly saw Lauren Brady as the top IC finisher. The graduate student was 15^th putting together a time of 2:18.22. It was an exciting finish during the final heat and 50-yards of the 100-yard backstroke as it was neck and neck to the finish line between Jade Matthias from Hamilton and Katie Champagne. Matthias squeaked out the win with a time of 57.45 as coming in second with a time of 57.87 was Katie Champagne.

The final individual event of Saturday was the 100-yard breaststroke that saw University of Rochester's Ariana Pasquella win with a time of 1:05.46. Earning seventh place for Ithaca was Spencer Carroll who finished the event with a time of 1:07.72 and coming in 10^th place was Emma Kidd with a time of 1:09.37.

In the 800-yard freestyle relay, Middlebury secured first with a time of 7:42.53 and right behind was the team of Naomi Fry, Ava Palfreyman, Emma Heinze and Angela Merch had a time of 7:74.93 to come home second and earn 56 team points.

The Bombers are back in action tomorrow for the final day of competition of the 12th Annual Bomber Invitational. Swimming is slated to resume at 9 a.m. with the longest event, the 1,650 freestyle. That event will be followed by the 100-yard IM, 100-yard freestyle, 200-yard backstroke, 200-yard breaststroke and 400-yard freestyle relay.