Eagle Men, Women Top Bluffton In Home Dual

Ashland University's men's and women's swimming and diving teams competed in their next-to-last meet at Messerly Natatorium in 2024-25 on Friday (Jan. 24) night, with both teams topping Bluffton.
 
The Eagle women won 178-13, and the AU men earned a 172-22 decision.
 
Ashland's divers each earned two wins on Friday night. Sophomore Riley Hunt took the women's 1-meter (255.15 points) and 3-meter diving (301.85 points), and junior Joey Lenczyk won the men's 1-meter (271.05 points) and 3-meter (296.45 points) diving.
 
Sophomore Payton O'Toole, the reigning Great Midwest Athletic Conference women's swimming Athlete of the Week, won the women's 50-yard freestyle in 25.41 seconds. She also was part of the winning women's 200 free relay (1:45.14), along with sophomores Anna Ramsier and Delaney Spradlin, and freshman Julia Reed.
 
Ashland's individuals wins on Friday also included:

• Freshman Brooke Patel in the women's 1,000 free (11:14.29).
• Senior Robin Falk in the men's 100 free (10:54.48).
• Reed in the women's 200 free (2:10.29).
• Freshman William Collins in the men's 200 free (1:51.57).
• Junior Cole Huebner in the men's 50 free (22.58 seconds).
• Freshman Stephanie Holubetz in the women's 200 individual medley (2:23.50).
• Sophomore Evan Kemp in the men's 200 IM (2:01.17).
• Junior Mary Kate Prall in the women's 100 butterfly (1:03.58).
• Junior Andrew Oates in the men's 100 fly (56.55 seconds).
• Sophomore Emma Stoll in the women's 100 free (1:01.53).
• Junior Ayden Mason in the men's 100 free (51.48 seconds).
• Sophomore Juliana Pignato in the women's 100 backstroke (1:03.25).
• Freshman Grant Wallery in the men's 100 back (1:02.97).
• Senior Colleen Cox in the women's 500 free (5:55.33).
• Sophomore Colin Pham in the men's 500 free (4:58.22).
• Sophomore Blair Pichola in the women's 100 breaststroke (1:14.46).
• Junior Jack Elliott in the men's 100 breaststroke (1:00.87).

The Eagles' women's 200 medley relay quarter of Stoll, sophomore Rachel Stanchek, Pignato and freshman Jaidyn Jordan won in 2:03.07; the men's 200 medley relay of Pham, sophomore Grant Brown, fifth-year Josh Hagan and Collins won in 1:44.08; and the men's 200 free relay of Hagan, junior Josh Bachinsky, Brown and Huebner touched the finish first in 1:35.57.
 
UP NEXT
Senior Day and the final home meet of 2024-25 on Saturday (Jan. 25) at noon vs. Allegheny.