WORCESTER, Mass.—Five different competitors recorded individual victories, and the Babson College women's swimming & diving team came in first in seven events in a five-team meet at WPI's Sports & Recreation Center Pool on Friday night. 

The Beavers defeated Brandeis University 203-75, beat Smith College 162-131 and bested the host Engineers 151-110 in addition to suffering a 164-115 loss to the Coast Guard Academy. Babson (4-1) now owns six consecutive victories over Smith, has won four in a row against Brandeis and edged WPI for the second straight year. 

The Green and White opened the meet with a decisive victory in the 200-yard medley relay as the quartet of junior Julia Netishen (Exeter, N.H.) and first-years Parker Jacobson-Bertanzetti (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), Leni So (New Canaan, Conn.) and Ryan Vender (Winnetka, Ill.) posted a time of 1:48.94 to finish nearly three seconds ahead of Coast Guard. The Beavers also came in first in the 200 free relay to end the night as Vender, So, Netishen and senior Sylvie Racicot (Arlington, Mass.) finished 1.06 seconds ahead of the Bears' top team with a time of 1:38.15. 

Netishen placed first in the 100 backstroke with a time of 58.85 and was the runner-up in the 200 backstroke with a time of 2:10.49, while Racicot touched the wall first with a time of 54.66 in the 100 free after claiming second place in the 50 free with a time of 25.11. Junior Tuana Turhan (Lake Forest, Ill.) also recorded a pair of podium finishes winning the 200 breaststroke in a time of 2:31.27 before coming in second in the 200 IM with a time of 2:14.17. 

Jacobson-Bertanzetti came from behind over the final 100 yards to win the 200 free by more than two seconds with a time of 1:57.69 and then came in third in the 500 free with a time of 5:25.43 and fourth in the 200 IM in a time of 2:16.35. Vender followed up her fifth-place showing in the 200 butterfly (2:17.71) by jumping to an early lead and winning the 500 free by more than a second with a time of 5:17.75. 

So came in fifth in the 200 backstroke with a time of 2:15.66, while first-year Maya Wen (Fremont, Calif.) posted a time of 1:02.29 to place fifth in the 100 backstroke. Fellow rookie Mai Pho (Chelmsford, Mass.) finished sixth with a time of 2:20.06 in the 200 butterfly, while three other Babson competitors recorded seventh-place results. 

Junior Samantha Gilbert (Arlington, Va.) placed seventh in both the 200 IM (2:19.85) and the 1000 free (11:40.71), classmate Marta Gershanok (Closter, N.J.) took seventh in the 200 backstroke with a time of 2:16.82, and sophomore Becky Hwang (Needham, Mass.) was just under a half-second behind Wen with a time of 1:02.77 in the 100 backstroke. 

Babson is right back in action on Saturday as it welcomes Clark to Morse Pool for its home opener at 2 p.m.