Cal Men, Women, Sweep USC in Close Dual Meet Behind Keaton Jones, Mary-Ambre Moluh
The Cal Golden Bears swept the USC Trojans in a men’s and women’s dual meet on Saturday, Jan. 16.
Cal won the men’s meet 178-122 and the women’s meet 156-144.
The Cal women opened the meet with a win in the 400 medley relay. Mary-Ambre Moluh, Silje Slyngstadil, Annie Jia and Mia West won in 3:30.32.
Moluh won the 100 backstroke in 51.24 and 200 back (1:53.48). West won the 100 free in 47.51, just ahead of USC’s Minna Abraham (47.55). Jia won the 100 fly (51.47).
Moluh, Lilou Ressencourt, Jia and West won the 400 free relay in 3:11.69.
Cal’s Ella Cosgrove won the 1000 free in 9:40.58 ahead of USC’s Claire Tuggle (9:41.02).
USC’s Justina Kozan won three events – the 200 fly (1:54.90), 400 IM (4:07.46) and 500 free (4:41.02).
Abraham won the 200 free in 1:41.69, edging West (1:41.74). She also won the 50 free in 22.06. Bella Brito won the 100 breaststroke in 59.85 and 200 breast (2:10.22).
In the men’s meet, Cal’s Keaton Jones won the 200 free in 1:34.17 and the 200 backstroke in 1:40.90.
Cal’s Nathan Wiffen won the 1000 free in 8:50.30. Yamato Okadome won he 100 breast (51.70) and 200 breast (1:50.77). Nikolas Antoniou won the 50 free in 18.75, going 1-2-3 with Nans Mazellier (19.78) and Samuel Quarles (19.81). Mazellier won he 100 free in 42.82. Eduardo Oliviera Moraes won the 500 free in 4:15.41. Freddy Klein won the 400 IM (3:47.43).
Cal’s Manzellier, Lucca Battaglini, Antoniou and Jones won the 400 free relay in 2:50.53.
USC’s Vaggelis Makrygiannis, Junhao Chan, Michal Chmielewski and Oliver Sogaard-Andersen won the 400 medley relay in 3:04.04.
Makrygiannis won the 100 back in 46.20. Chmielewski won the 200 fly (1:41.77) and 100 fly (45.08).
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