NEW YORK CITY – The University of Pennsylvania women's swimming and diving team had the top four finishers in both distance races, but the Quakers narrowly fell to Columbia, 159-141, Friday afternoon.
 
Penn totaled seven first-place finishes against the Lions with two for sophomore Anna Moehn.
 
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*Moehn was victorious in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:50.33, while Katya Eruslanova finished third (1:53.00).
 
*Penn's first of two distance wins came in the 500-yard freestyle, won by Moehn (5:00.51). In that race, the Quakers took all four places with Amelia Girotto placing second (5:00.81), Sydney Bergstrom coming in third (5:00.89) and Maggie Straley in fourth (5:01.09).
 
*Anna Kalandadze earned a victory in the 1,000 free (10:01.93), Bergstrom in second (10:04.25), Amelia Girotto in third (10:12.94) and Straley in fourth (10:13.45).
 
*Kate Levensten won the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 56.42, teammate Charlotte Holliday placing third (57.74).
 
*Vanessa Chong won the 200-yard butterfly, timing in at 2:01.91. She also placed second in the 100 fly (56.26).
 
*Meredith Holcomb clocked in at 2:19.64 to place first in the 200-yard breaststroke.
 
*Abby Wickersham, Moehn, Keara McGowan and Margot Kaczorowski placed first in the 400 free relay with a time of 3:27.60.
 
*Earning a second-place finish in the 200-medley relay, Levensten, McGowan, Chong and Kaczorowski clocked in at 1:44.35.
 
*Wickersham took second in the 50 free (23.94) and 100 free (52.24), while McGowan placed third in that event (52.75).
 
*Eruslanova placed third in the 200 back (2:04.83).
 
*With a time of 4:27.24 in the 400-yard individual medley, Kalandadze took second place with Eruslanova earning a third-place finish (4.27.55).
 
*On the boards, Sadie Howard took third place in the three-meter dive (259.35) and the one-meter dive (250.43).
 
Up Next
The Quakers head to the Main Line to face Villanova in a mid-week matchup Wednesday at 5 p.m.