ASHLAND, Va.--The Hood College swimming teams combined for nine victories, nine runner-up finishes and seven school records at the Randolph-Macon College Yellow Jacket Invitational this past weekend.

The Blazer men won eight events and set six school marks en route to finishing second out of four teams with 354 points, while the women won one event, had five runner-up finishes and set one school record to place third out of 13 squads with 239.5 points.

Sophomore Jason Kinder and freshman Jimmy Shea tied Virginia Military Institute's Stuart Kraft for men's top scoring honors with 48 points.

Kinder won three individual events--the 100-yard backstroke in a school-record 57.66, the 200-yard backstroke in a school-record 2:05.80 and the 1,650-yard freestyle (17:54.80)--and was also a member of three relay teams--the 200-yard medley, the 400-yard medley and the 800-yard freestyle--that won in school-record times.

Shea set a school and pool record with his winning time of 4:39.44 in the 400-yard individual medley and also captured the 200-yard freestyle (1:55.38) and the 200-yard individual medley (2:08.93).

Freshman Matt Haynes took second in the 50-yard (23.00) and 100-yard (52.09) freestyles and was also fifth in the 200-yard freestyle (1:59.82).

Junior Matt Caron finished third in the 100-yard butterfly (1:02.04) and was fifth in the 200-yard individual medley (2:20.53) and the 100-yard freestyle (52.80).

Freshman Kyle Zehner placed second in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:38.22) and added sixth-place finishes in the 200-yard individual medley (2:31.25) and the 100-yard breaststroke (1:11.90)

Freshman Eric Walton was sixth in the 50-yard freestyle (26.54) and the 100-yard butterfly (1:15.02) and added a 10th-place finish in the 100-yard freestyle (1:01.17).

Freshman Jeff Dickens was seventh in the 50-yard freestyle (26.66) and the 100-yard backstroke (1:22.51) and later placed 11th in the 100-yard freestyle (1:03.96).

Zehner, Dickens, Walton and Caron capped the meet by winning the 400-yard freestyle relay (3:59.04).

The Hood women were led by sophomore Amy Kaufman, who tied for fifth in individual scoring with 40 points.

Kaufman won the 500-yard freestyle (5:39.96), finished second in the 1,650-yard freestyle (19:16.77) and was fourth in the 400-yard individual medley (5:08.83).

She also teamed with sophomore Lenore Brown, freshman Sarah Haney and sophomore Katie Hitchens to set a school record (1:59.44) in a fourth-place finish in the 200-yard medley relay and was a member of runner-up teams in the 400-yard medley relay (4:32.20) and the 800-yard freestyle relay (8:55.00).

Brown also turned in several strong individual efforts, finishing second in the 200-yard backstroke (2:24.24), third in the 100-yard backstroke (1:06.92) and fifth in the 200-yard freestyle (2:09.11). She tied for 10th in scoring with 35 points.

Hitchens tied for second in the 50-yard freestyle (26.34) and placed seventh in the 100-yard freestyle (1:00.91), while Haney was fourth in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:49.52), sixth in the 100-yard butterfly (1:09.6) and seventh in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:17.38).

Sophomore Chloe Gandy, freshman Ashley Garyn, freshman Danielle Sgro and Hitchens teamed to finish fourth in the 200-yard freestyle relay (1:55.66).

Both the Blazer men's and women's squads are off until January 7 when they visit Salisbury for a dual meet beginning at 2 p.m.