The University of Maine Women’s Swimming and Diving team traveled down to rival University of New Hampshire (UNH) in a dual meet Friday night as a part of rivalry week.

The UNH Wildcats defeated the UMaine Black Bears 176-99. The standouts for the Wildcats included first-year swimmer Liza Baykova who won the 200-yard freestyle in 1:51:11, second-year swimmer Sarah Broderick who won the 100-yard backstroke in 58.45 seconds, second-year swimmer Katie Mann who won the 200-yard butterfly in 2:02:74, and fourth-year diver Nicole Zahka won the three-meter dive with a score of 271.60.

For the Black Bears, second-year diver Hayli Weitz, won the one-meter dive with a score of 187.20.

Other Black Bear standouts included third-year swimmer Angela Bleeker was able to take home first place in the 200-yard backstroke in a time of 2:24:38, third-year swimmer Cassandra Bonnett won the 500-yard freestyle in 6:21:62 and fourth-year senior Abby Linn was able to capture the 200-yard individual medley title with a time of 2:21:94. Maine also won the 400-yard freestyle relay in 3:42:10.

Members of the relay team were some of the most successful UMaine swimmers this year, which included fourth-year swimmer Naja Harvey, second-year swimmer Katerina Mosquera-Cardi, first-year swimmer Chloe Adams and first-year swimmer Emily Borger.

The next time the University of Maine Black Bears women’s swimming and diving team will be competing is on Thursday Feb. 12 in Worcester, Mass., when they will compete for the America East Championships.

This is the last dual meet for the Black Bears, ending a very successful regular season campaign. In dual meets, UMaine was 3-3 including big wins against Providence College, Bates University and Bryant University.