Big Ten Recap: Ohio State Tops PSU; Minnesota Beats Iowa

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There was plenty of action in the Big Ten Conference this week.

The No 10. men and No. 15 women’s Ohio State swimming & diving team finished the two-day meet versus Virginia Tech and Penn State with three dual wins, including a sweep of conference foe Penn State, on Saturday afternoon. The women won soundly against both Virginia Tech, 225-128, and Penn State, 231-122. The men earned a dominating victory against Penn State, 250-103, but the Hokies slipped just past the Buckeyes, 182-171.

OSU EVENT WINS
• Women’s 200 Free Relay – (Rayner, Coy, Petrak, Bradley), 1:32.81
• Women’s 200 IM – Kathrin Demler, 2:01.93
• Women’s 100 Breast – Hanna Gresser, 1:02.17
• Men’s 100 Breast – Evan McFadden, 58.83
• Women’s 200 Back – Kristen Romano, 1:58.37
• Women’s 100 Free – Taylor Petrak, 50.83
• Women’s 200 Fly – Kathrin Demler, 2:00.62
• Women’s 400 Medley Relay – (Bradley, Gresser, Demler, Rayner), 3:43.83
• Men’s 400 Medley Relay – (McDermott, DeLakis, Salazar, Gaziev), 3:17.13
• Women’s 200 Medley Relay – (Kahmann, Gresser, Bradley, Rayner), 1:40.89
• Women’s 50 Free – Freya Rayner, 23.09
• Women’s 100 Back – Rebekah Bradley, 55.79
• Women’s 200 Breast – Hanna Gresser, 2:17.35
• Men’s 200 Breast – Paul DeLakis, 2:02.43
• Women’s 200 Free – Kristen Romano, 1:49.78
• Men’s 100 Fly – Noah Lense, 48.72
• Women’s 400 Free Relay – (Petrak, Coy, Trace, Rayner), 3:24.86
• Men’s 400 Free Relay – (Gaziev, Loy, Abeysinghe, DeLakis), 2:56.85

On the boards, Penn State’s Hector Garcia Boissier won both the 1-meter dive and the 3-meter dives. On day one Boisser, won the 1-meter with a final score of 366.30, and scored a 403.55 in the 3-meter Saturday morning. The senior diver has won the 1-meter and 3-meter in all three meets so far this season.

On day two for the swimmers, Michael Daly continued to have a strong first-year campaign with a first-place finish in the 400 IM (3:57.30).

In the women’s meet, Penn State senior captain Ally McHugh led the Nittany Lions in three events throughout the weekend taking first in the 500 free on Friday and both the 1000 free and 400 IM on Saturday. McHugh led the 1000 free by about 10 seconds, finishing the race in 9:55.97. Freshman Madison Murtagh followed suit finishing second (10:06.94) in the race after taking a third place finish in the 500 free on Friday evening. McHugh swam a B-cut time in the 400 IM of 4:17.08.

Purdue falls to Notre Dame

Sweeps of the men’s springboard diving events and women’s breaststroke events helped the Boilermakers post a combined 11 victories, but the Purdue swimming & diving teams dropped both sides of their dual meet opener at Notre Dame on Friday.

The No. 25 Purdue men won four of the first five events, but were only victorious in one additional race the rest of the meet. Meanwhile, the No. 18 Fighting Irish had at least the top two finishers in six swimming events. That was ultimately the difference in the 157-126 final score.

Jinq En Phee (100) and Cady Farlow (200) teamed up for the sweep of the women’s breaststroke events for Purdue. Seniors Danielle Auckley (50 free) and Taite Kitchel (200 IM) also won events, but No. 13 Notre Dame improved to 5-0-1 in dual results this season with a 190-110 victory.

Joe Cifelli accounted for the springboard diving sweep on the men’s side. He teamed with Brandon Loschiavo and Ben Bramley to give the Boilermakers at least a 1-2 finish on both 1-meter and 3-meter.

Minnesota tops Iowa, SD State

The Gophers swept the competition at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center Saturday afternoon with both the men and women picking up wins over Iowa and South Dakota State.

The men improved to 3-1 overall with their sweep of the Hawkeyes and Jackrabbits today while the women rose to 2-2 on the season with convincing wins in the pool.

The Minnesota men beat Iowa 158.5-141.5 and beat SD State 251-49.

There were several impactful wins during the men’s competition in the pool Saturday, including Eitan Yudashkin’s 100 breast win. Yudashkin picked up his first win of the season in the event, beating all other to the wall in 55.75.

The Gopher’s started and ended the meet with relay wins in the 400 medley relay and the 400 free relay. Tom Donker, Max McHugh, Toumas Pokkinen and Bowe Becker led the men off with a medley win in 3:15.01, while Becker, Tim Sates, Nick Saulnier and Pokkinen brought the team home in a must-win 400 free performance to seal the Gopher victory over Big Ten rival Iowa, touching in 2:58.75.

Minnesota continued to turn in performances race after race at the meet with Becker winning the 50 free in 19.81 and McHugh the 200 breast in 1:58.54. The Gophers finished first and second in three races Saturday. Michael Messner and Nick Plachinski took the top spots in the 1,000 free, Sates and Cameron Kelley took the 200 free, and Pokkinen and Matt Thomas dominated the 100 fly. Pokkinen clocked the 15th fastest time in the nation while winning the 100 fly event, touching in 47.96.

Nick Yang and Alan LeBlang represented the Gophers in the diving well. The duo finished first and second on the 1 meter, scoring NCAA Diving Zone qualifying scores of 356.45 and 329.75 respectively. Yang and LeBlang later finished second and third in the 3 meter, again posting zone qualifying scores of 368.45 and 266.30.

Iowa started off the meet with a first place finish in the 400-medley relay with the team of Kenneth Mende, Daniel Swanepoel, Michael Tenney, and Jack Smith touching in 3:18.34.

Mende added two individual victories in the 100 back (49.47) and 200 back (1:47.11). Freshman Anze Fers Erzen and junior Forrest White followed behind in second and third in the 200 back to complete the top three sweep.

In the women’s meet, Minnesota beat Iowa 189.5-109.5 and SD St. 251-46.

The Gophers started the meet strong taking the top-two spots in the 400 medley relay. Both squads posted top-20 national times with Chantal Nack, Lindsey Kozelsky, Tevyn Waddell and Mackenzie Padington finishing first in 3:41.41, the 12th fastest time in the country this season.

Minnesota swept the 100 back and 500 freestyle events during the meet. The trio of Nack, Emily Cook and Brittany Horn controlled the podium in the 100 back, with Nack leading the group into the wall at 54.89. Nack, a senior from Mankato, Minn., led the sweep of the 500 free as well, touching in 4:52.83, with Abbey Kilgallon and Kate Sullivan finishing second and third.

The breaststroke duo of Kozelsky and Rachel Munson finished first and second in the 100 and 200 breast events. Kozelsky posted the fifth-fastest time in the nation this year in the 100, hitting the wall in 1:00.55, an NCAA “B” provisional qualifying time. Kozelsky later won the 200 in 2:14.00, the 16th fastest time in the country.

Padington won three events at the meet including the 100 free (50.87), 200 free (1:49.25) and the 400 IM (4.22.07). Waddell took the 200 back in 1:58.34 while Kilgallon, fresh off of a Big Ten Freshman of the Week award, won the 1000 free for the second time this year, touching in 10:11.28.

The University of Iowa women’s swimming and diving team defeated South Dakota State, 231-64, on Saturday at the Jean K. Freeman Aquactic Center, but the Hawkeyes were on the short end of a Big Ten dual to against No. 21 Minnesota,189.50-109.50.

Iowa’s Abbey Schneider opened up the individual events with a second place finish in the 1,000 free. She swam to a time of 10:26.77.

Sophomore Kelsey Drake opened up the victories for the Hawkeyes in the 200 fly, finishing with a time of 2:01.77. She also went on to win the 100 fly with a time of 54.99. Senior Kelly McNamara finished directly behind Drake with a time of 55.12.

Sophomore diver Jayah Mathews recorded a pair of wins off the 1-meter and 3-meter springboards. She scored a 295.55 on the 1-meter and a 349.20 on the 3-meter.

Rutgers tops MSU, Toledo, Oakland

Rutgers swimming and diving topped Oakland and Toledo by convincing margins in a tri-meet at the Oakland Aquatic Center on Saturday morning, capping off a three-win weekend in the Great Lakes State. On the morning after a tight, two-point victory at Michigan State, the Scarlet Knights claimed 11 of the 16 events during the three-team meet at Oakland.

A trio of Scarlet Knights each won two races on Saturday. Junior Francesca Bertotto won the 500- and 1,000-yard freestyle events for the second day in a row, while freshman Terka Grusova touched in first in the 100- and 200-yard backstroke events. Junior Federica Greco triumphed in the 100-yard butterfly and the 200-yard individual medley. Junior Alexandra Fabugais-Inaba claimed the 200-yard freestyle for her second win in as many tries at the distance. Senior Francesca Stoppa took the 200-yard butterfly, barely, over teammate Greco. Freshman diver Jenna Douglass notched her first career event victory with a first place score of 266.90 in 3-meter diving. Senior Rachel Byrne completed the Rutgers diving sweep with a win on the 1-meter boards with an NCAA Zone A Championships qualifying score of 265.40.

Nebraska beats Iowa State

The Nebraska swim and dive team hit the road to continue their dual season. The Huskers defeated the Cyclones 184-115, to improve to 3-0 on the season.

The Huskers claimed second place in the 200-yard medley relay with Autumn Haebig, Tori Beeler, Dana Posthuma, Lindsay Helferich in the lane (1:45.65).

The Huskers swept the 1,000-yard freestyle, Rachel Powers took first (10:24.49).

Senior Kaylyn Flatt captured a first-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of (1:53.11)

In 100-yard backstroke, Haebig (56.93) won.

Illinois wins UIC, Chicago

The Fighting Illini swimming and diving team picked up wins over both UIC (198.5-100.5) and the University of Chicago (224-75), while coming up short to host Northwestern, 190-105, Friday night in Evanston. Illinois was led by junior Kristin Anderson, who won both sprint freestyle events, the 50 freestyle (23.69) and 100 freestyle (51.30). Freshman diver Taylor Shegos also placed second on 1-meter diving, posting a career-best 261.05.

For the second-straight meet, sophomore Jimena Martinez picked up a pair of lifetime-best times. Martinez came away with the top time of her career in the 200 butterfly (2:04.65) to finish second and in the 100 butterfly (58.41) to place third.

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