BUFFALO, NY – The Burt Flickinger Center on the campus of Erie Community College in Buffalo, New York has been kind to Siena Swimming & Diving during the team's last two trips to the pool. The Saints continued their 2022-23 season by taking dual meet wins over MAAC foe Canisius (166-128) and the University of Rochester (211-85) on Saturday afternoon.

Siena defeated the Golden Griffins in dual meet action for the first time since 2012, while taking a victory over Rochester for the second straight year. The Saints have now won three of its first four dual meet events for the first time since the 2015-16 campaign. The Green and Gold returned to the site of both last year and this year's MAAC Championship meet, which saw them post their best finish since 2016 last spring.

Siena claimed six events during the meet, with seniors Rory Kalac and Reilly King winning two individual events each. Kalac posted the best time in the MAAC thus far this season in the 50 free (24.26) and also won the 100 free (53.49), while King dominated freestyle distance swims with wins in the 500 free (5:22.81) and the 1000 free (11:05.13). The Saints also took home a pair of relay victories, with the group of freshman Brooke Pociask (back), freshman Tori Spacciapolli (breast), senior Jessica Shine (fly), and Kalac (free) winning the 200 medley relay (1:50.15), and the team of sophomore Kylie Carter, freshman Kaci Owens, sophomore Maddie Buck, and Kalac posting the MAAC's best mark this season in the 400 free relay.

The Saints displayed depth in several events, with King, freshman Jillian Walls and senior Lauren Ostrander taking the top three spots in the 500 free, Kalac, Carter, Owens, and sophomore Shaylea Triller making up the top-four finishers in the 50 free, Carter, Buck and Ostrander going for first, third, and fourth in the 200 free, and Kalac, Carter, Owens, and Triller finishing, first, third, fourth, and fifth in the 100 free.

The Green and Gold also swam an impressive 14 best times on the day with Buck doing so in the 100 fly (1:01.76) and the 200 fly (2:13.48) and Carter in the 50 free (24.82) and 100 free (53.71). The latter mark tied Carter for tenth all-time on the Program All-Time Top-Ten list for the event.

Siena's six freshmen continued to improve in their second collegiate meet, with all six posting at least one collegiate best. Owens did so in the 50 free (25.22), 100 free (54.78), and 100 back (1:02.79), while Spacciapolli swam new marks in the 100 breast (1:08.51), 200 breast (2:28.63) and the 200 IM (2:17.28). Pociask set a new mark in the 200 back (2:18.26), while Walls did so in the 500 free (5:31.20). Mya Reed swam the 200 IM (2:17.28) for the first time, while Grace Neno competed in the 500 free (5:36.51) for the first time. 

The Saints will have a weekend away from competition before once again hitting the road for tri-meet competition on Saturday, November 5. Siena will head to Durham, New Hampshire to face the Wildcats and face off against Merrimack for the first time since 2016, with action beginning at Noon.