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BIDDEFORD, Maine -- Lindsey Thomsen and Eleni Bautz captured two events each and led a pair of relay results as the University of New England women's swimming team topped Merrimack College, 157-102, on Saturday afternoon (Jan. 21) at the Campus Center Pool.

The Nor'easters (6-2) won eight of the 12 individual swims against the Warriors (0-4).

Thomsen took down seven-year-old pool records in both of her swims -- the 50-freestyle (24.48) and the 50-butterfly (27.59). In the free, she was 0.64 ahead of the mark set by Lizzie Wareham, and in the fly, her time was 0.63 better than Wareham's standard.

After Bautz claimed the 200-freestyle (2:04.54), she replaced the pool record in the 100-freestyle. Her time of 55.63 was clocked at 0.34 faster than Danielle Carlson of Colby College from back during the 2009-10 season.

Then, in the meet-ending 400-freestyle relay, Bautz, Kayla Burgess, McKenna Riley, and Thomsen shattered the two-year-old mark of Roger Williams University with a time of 3:45.49 -- 4.97 seconds clear of the old mark.

Jordan Earley supported the winning cause with narrow victories over teammate Briana Goud in the 50-breaststroke (35.34 / +0.54) and 100-breaststroke (1:17.16 / +0.89).

Burgess added a win in the 100-butterfly (1:04.47), and Riley got one of her own by finishing the 100-backstroke in 1:05.55 -- just 0.55 ahead of Merrimack's Andrea Taylor.

Taylor picked one of the Warriors' four results in the 50-backstroke, as her number of 31.02 barely out-touched UNE's Andrea Rybicki (+0.36). Alison Canjura paced the visiting squad with two race triumphs, in the 500-freestyle (5:45.64) and 1,000-freestyle (11:27.34). Sam Towle registered first-place points for Merrimack, as well, coming in the 100-individual medley (1:08.19).

The Nor'easters' opening relay effort (1:57.77 in the 200-medley) was put together by Taryn Leach, Thomsen, Burgess, and Bautz.

UNE heads for Elms College next Saturday.