DURHAM, N.H. – Junior Sarah Barber (Meridan/F.T. Maloney HS) won New England titles for the third straight year in the 1,000 and 1,650 yard freestyle events and freshman Jessica Wilson (Torrington/Torrington HS) earned All-New England honors in two breaststroke events this weekend at the 2007 Division II-III New England Intercollegiate Swimming and Diving Championships at Swasey Poll on the campus of the University of New Hampshire.

Bentley College (881 points), one of three Division II institutions involved in the meet, outscored Little East Conference champion Keene State College (791.5) to claim the team title. Eastern (208) was 15th among 22 institutions which scored points.

The top six finishers in individual events and top three relays were accorded All-New England status.

Barber swam her fastest times of the year in earning All-New England honors in the 500, 1,000 and 1,650 freestyle events for the third straight year. She placed second in the 500 for the second straight year after winning the title as a freshman in 2005. That year, she made a sweep of all three of the distance freestyle events.

Wilson earned All-New England status by finishing fifth in the 50 breaststroke and sixth in the 100 breaststroke in record-setting times. She broke her own program record in the 100 breaststroke by ten hundredths of a second with a time of 1:12.67 in the preliminaries; in the 50 breaststroke, she was timed in 32.94, breaking the four-year old record by 39 hundreths of a second. Wilson was seventh in the 200 breaststroke – just four hundredths of a second off her program record – to miss earning All-New England honors in a third event. She was edged out for sixth place in the event by less than a second by Roger Williams University senior Jenny Dill.

Barber, who holds program record in four freestyle events, bettered her season best in the 1,650 by 44 seconds with a time of 18:02.59 and improved her season-best times in the 1,000 by nearly 17 seconds with a time of 10:48.50 and in the 500 by ten seconds with a time of 5:16.56.

The 400 medley relay broke the program’s third record of the weekend by 44 hundreths of a second with a time of 4:27.45 in the preliminaries on the way to an eventual tenth-place finish. The old record was set in last year’s New England championship. Barber swam the third leg of the relay and was joined by freshmen Carol Ann Smith (Newtown/Newtown HS), Wilson, and Maureen Cop (Southington/Southington HS).

Individually, Barber collected 74 of the team’s points and also contributed to four of the five relays which amassed a total of 56 points; Wilson followed with 53 points in individual events and also swam four relays; freshman Sarah Dombrowski (Southington/Southington HS) had ten points and swam two relays; freshman Casey Harrigan (Bristol/Bristol Central HS) nine points and one relay; junior Kaitlyn Kociela (Montague, MA/Turners Falls HS) six points and three relays; Smith and first-year junior Kara Forman (Manchester/Manchester HS) one relay each and Cop four relays.

Dombrowski established personal-bests with times of 19:56.26 in the 1,650 freestyle (13th place) and 5:19.04 in the 400 individual medley (16th place) while Kociela also had PR (20:03.42) in the 1,650 freestyle (15th place) and Harrigan a PR of 2:30.19 in the trials of the 200 butterfly.

The meet concludes the program’s 11th intercollegiate season – all under head coach Maureen Fahey – with a record of 6-4-1 in dual meet competition.