CAMBRIDGE, MA- The Wheaton College men's and women's swimming & diving teams completed their first-semester slates on the second and final day of the competitive Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Invitational on Saturday at Zesiger Pool.

The Lyon women were fourth among seven teams with 440 points, while the men were sixth out of seven behind 237.33 points. Wheaton's women beat out Brandeis University and a pair of New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) squads, while the men bettered NESCAC foe Colby College. The MIT men were victorious with 1,038 points, while the New York University women won with 976.5 points.

Athletes from the Blue and White's women's team produced nine top-five finishes, as sophomores Dania Piscetta (Belmont, NH/Belmont) and Nicole Zais (Sudbury, MA/Lincoln-Sudbury Regional) played a role in five apiece.

Piscetta had a hand in each of Wheaton's runner-up showings, swimming the 100-yard freestyle in 54.37, just 0.11 seconds shy of the winner. During the 200 free relay, Piscetta was the anchor of a foursome that completed its race in 1:40.70, just 0.07 ticks off the winning time. She was joined by Zais and sophomores Samantha Farrell (Reading, MA/Reading Memorial) and Stephany Perkins (Monmouth, ME/Monmouth Academy).

Zais was third in the 100-yard breaststroke and joined Perkins, Piscetta and sophomore Sara Hollar (La Crescenta, CA/Flintridge Prep) on the third-place 400 free relay team, while Piscetta also came in fourth during the 100-yard butterfly. Freshmen Taryn Brosnan (Westford, MA/Academy of Notre Dame) and Julia Wright (Pomfret, VT/Northfield Mount Hermon School) took fourth place in the 200 breast and one-meter dive, respectively.

Zais tied for fifth in the 50 free while helping the 200-yard medley relay quartet to fifth, siding with Farrell, Piscetta and junior Iris Meehan (Bar Harbor, ME/Mount Desert Island).

Sophomore Jonathan Gold (West Harrison, NY/Fordham Prep) was the most successful Wheaton male during the weekend, taking fifth place in each the one- and three-meter diving events. Classmate Sam Dean-Lee (Rocky Hill, CT/Xavier) took sixth in the 200 free and anchored both the sixth-place 400 free relay quartet and the eighth-place 800 free relay foursome. He swam the 400 with sophomores Zach Fichman-Klein (North Attleboro, MA/North Attleboro) and Eddie Gillie (Haverhill, MA/Saint John's Prep) and freshman Cole Larson-Whittaker (Penobscot, ME/George Stevens Academy), while Gillie, Larson-Whittaker and freshman Devon Best (Brentwood, TN/Ravenwood) joined Dean-Lee during the 800.

Best was eighth in the 200 back and finished in a three-way tie for ninth during the 100 back, Larson-Whittaker took ninth in the 1,650 free, and Gillie was 10th in the 500 free. Four additional Blue and White relay teams finished among the top 10 in their races.

The Lyons are off until the new year, opening a four-meet homestand by hosting the Wheaton Winter Invitational on Saturday, January 10 at 12:00 p.m.