On Friday (Nov. 7) night at the Messerly Natatorium, both of Ashland University's swimming and diving teams won their third straight home duals, each topping Baldwin Wallace.
The Eagle women won, 195-48, while the AU men took a 192-46 decision.
Ashland swimmers and divers combined for 25 first-place finishes on Friday night, paced by two individual wins each for sophomore
Brooke Patel (women's 1,000-yard freestyle, 11:21.47; women's 100 breaststroke, 1:12.31), junior
Grant Brown (men's 1,000 free, 10:20.04; men's 500 free, 4:58.57), sophomore
Yasmim Tomita (women's 200 free, 2:01.33; women's 100 backstroke, 59.56 seconds), junior
Evan Kemp (men's 200 free, 1:47.06; men's 100 butterfly, 51.55 seconds), junior
Payton O'Toole (women's 50 free, 25.28 seconds; women's 500 free, 5:28.20), and junior
Riley Hunt (women's 1-meter diving, 246.98 points; women's 3-meter diving, 260.70 points).
Single individual victories were earned by senior
Nick Girz in the men's 50 free (22.02 seconds), senior
Mary Kate Prall in the women's 400 individual medley (4:55.99), freshman
Lucas Leibrand in the men's 400 IM (4:27.01), senior
Joey Lenczyk in men's 3-meter diving (277.95 points), junior
Juliana Pignato in the women's 100 fly (1:01.37), senior
Colleen Cox in the women's 100 free (56.67 seconds), senior
Robin Falk in the men's 100 free (48.07 seconds), junior
Colin Pham in the men's 100 back (53.51 seconds), and senior
Andrew Oates in the men's 100 breaststroke (1:02.73).
All four AU relays were victorious:
- Women's 400 medley relay – Tomita, junior Blair Pichola, Pignato and O'Toole (4:06.48)
- Men's 400 medley relay – Pham, Oates, Kemp and Girz (3:34.20)
- Women's 400 free relay – Pignato, Pichola, Cox and O'Toole (3:49.22)
- Men's 400 free relay – Kemp, senior Jack Elliott, Pham and freshman Trei Durstine (3:12.72)
SECOND PLACE
- Senior Jason Basile in the men's 1,000 free (10:30.29) and 500 free (5:04.70).
- Pham in the men's 200 free (1:49.29).
- Cox in the women's 50 free (25.43 seconds).
- Falk in the men's 50 free (22.08 seconds).
- Girz in the men's 100 free (48.78 seconds).
- Lenczyk in men's 1-meter diving (219.90 points).
- Prall in the women's 100 back (1:03.00).
- Junior Payton Meyer in the women's 1,000 free (11:54.18).
- Junior Hannah Yemec in the women's 200 free (2:04.77).
- Senior Nick Olquin in the men's 400 IM (4:34.07).
- Freshman Joselyn Hensley in the women's 100 fly (1:01.74).
- Sophomore William Collins in the men's 100 fly (54.88 seconds).
- Freshman Katelyn Claugus in the women's 100 free (57.67 seconds).
- Sophomore Jaidyn Jordan in the women's 500 free (5:44.93).
- Freshman Kit Kat Anderson in the women's 100 breaststroke (1:13.13).
- Freshman Cooper Young in the men's 100 breaststroke (1:02.89).
- Women's 400 medley relay of Prall, Patel, Yemec and Cox (4:11.87).
- Men's 400 medley relay of Collins, Elliott, Falk and Durstine (3:41.22).
- Women's 400 free relay of sophomore Raechel Serafimov, junior Delaney Spradlin, Claugus and Anderson (3:55.44).
- Men's 400 free relay of Oates, senior Cole Huebner, Falk and Girz (3:14.35).
NEXT UP
A fourth straight home dual on Saturday (Nov. 8) at 1 p.m. vs. Washington and Jefferson.
