The Eastern swim teams each finished in fifth place over the weekend at the House of Champions meet, but on the final day the teams swam at their highest level, head coach Elliott McGill said.

The Panthers advanced five swimmers to the top finals on Sunday at the IU Natatorium in Indianapolis and 25 more season-best times were recorded.

“Hailey Foss led the women as she capped off a great meet with a really good mile swim putting her fifth all-time,” McGill said. “Kaylee Morris moved up to ninth all-time, too, with another drop on her 100-free.”

Meanwhile, four Panthers set new personal bests on the final day of the three-day meet.

“The highlight of (Sunday) was our women’s 100-free,” McGill said. “To go three seconds faster than our conference meet last year really shows where our women’s team is at, at this point of the season.”

Freshman Beth Houghton, Conner Conroy and Jake Roberts all set new season best times in the mile, 200-fly and mile events, respectively.

Junior Kate Paige also set a new personal best in the 100-free relay.

Despite some individual flashes of success throughout the weekend the men finished in last place of the multi-team meet.

Wisconsin-Green Bay swam past the competition in Indianapolis, as their men’s and women’s teams came in first place in the meet.

The hosting Jaguars recorded a second and fourth place finish, respectively, for the men and women squads.

With only one meet before the first half of the 2012-2013 season ends, the Eastern swim team has recorded 25 top 10 times in the Summit League and eight top 10 times in relays.

Out of those 25 top 10 times, Foss has recorded three with her best time being sixth in the 1000-free with a time of 10:46.41.

Fellow senior Kelli DiCanio holds two top 10 times in the league with her top finish being in the 100-breast, finishing with a time of 1:08.77, being good for the sixth best time.

Morris is tied with the sixth best time in the 100-free with a time of 53.79.

Other Panthers with top 10 times in the Summit League include sophomore Mackenzie Anderson in the 100-back, Paige in the 100-fly and junior Mary Lacine in the 200-IM.

Lacine also holds the third best time this year in the 400-IM with a time of 4:46.29.

The men also hold 15 top 10 times during the first half of this season.

The top finish for Eastern comes with the second best time in the 400-Medley relay.

Despite the second-best time, the Panthers are still nearly 12 seconds behind Oakland University.

The separation between those times is no surprise when it comes to the dominant performance shown by Oakland this season.

The Grizzlies hold 76 top 10 times in the Summit League this season.

The Panthers will return to action at 11 a.m. on Dec. 15 in Evansville.

Aldo Soto can be reached at 581-2812 or asoto2@eiu.edu.