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With the score knotted at 62-62 going into the final event (the freestyle relay), the outcome of the contest depended on the performance of four girls: Leslie Landefeld, Sharon Beckman, Maura Costin, and Fayer...
...After Costin had finished the third leg of the relay, the Harvard women were behind by half a body length. Fayer exploded off the starting block, however, and grabbed the lead within 25 yards. She held on past the turn to bring home the victory with a 25.4 effort, her best 50-yard time of the season...
Both Fayer and Costin were winners in four events, each coasting to individual triumphs before swimming in the final relay. Neither Fayer nor Costin has lost an individual event this season...
...Costin, a versatile swimmer, ran away with all her individual events. Her 1:06.1 winning time in the 100-yard individual medley was five seconds ahead of the next finisher's time...
...Costin broke her sister RoAnn's 1974 record of 2:03.6 in the freestyle with a time of 2:01.5. She shattered Jane McNamara's 1975 record of 2:42.2 by almost 26 seconds with a time of 2:16.3 in the butterfly...