In the first meet of the second semester on Saturday (Jan. 10), Ashland University's men's and women's swimming and diving teams competed in a quad at Saginaw Valley State with Hillsdale and Lake Superior State.
The Eagle men topped LSSU (180-43) and lost to SVSU (179-59), while the AU women beat the Lakers (190-28) and lost to the Cardinals (153.5-87.5) and the Chargers (145-92).
Junior
Riley Hunt earned Ashland's wins on Saturday, taking the top spot in both women's 1-meter (284.30 points) and 3-meter (238.85) diving.
Second-place finishes were earned by senior
Nick Girz in the men's 50-yard freestyle (21.76 seconds) and men's 100 free (47.18 seconds), freshman
Altin Rowland in men's 1-meter (207.10 points) and 3-meter (201.75) diving, junior
Payton O'Toole in the women's 100 free (54.86 seconds), sophomore
Yasmim Tomita in the women's 100 backstroke (59.14 seconds), junior
Colin Pham in the men's 100 back (53.36 seconds), and senior
Jason Basile in the men's 500 free (5:01.94).
Junior
Hannah Yemec was third in both the women's 200 individual medley (2:17.75) and 100 butterfly (1:00.06), and other individual thirds were turned in by junior
Grant Brown in the men's 1,000 free (10:37.37), sophomore
Ella Howard in women's 1-meter diving (204.60 points), senior
Maddi Whitticar in women's 3-meter diving (215.65 points), and freshman
Lincoln Shirley in the men's 500 free (5:05.19).
Third-place relays were – the women's 200 medley relay of Tomita, juniors
Blair Picola and
Juliana Pignato, and O'Toole (1:53.72); the men's 200 medley relay of Pham, senior
Andrew Oates, sophomore
Daniel Correa Hammer and freshman
Trei Durstine (1:38.54); the women's 400 free relay of freshman
Katelyn Claugus, Pignato, Yemec and O'Toole (3:44.13); and the men's 400 free relay of senior
Cole Huebner, Pham, senior
Robin Falk and Girz (3:12.04).
COMING UP
Back to the Messerly Natatorium for Senior Night on Friday (Jan. 16) at 6 p.m. vs. Mount Union.
