ISL Match 10 Day 1 Results: Cali Condors on Top; Lilly King Upset Twice

Cali Condors' Caeleb Dressel; Photo Courtesy: Mine Kasapoglu / ISL

Three of the top four teams in the standings are in the water for ISL Match 10. It’s the second straight match where the London Roar and Cali Condors face off. Add in the LA Current to the mix and it’s possible that a large portion of the eventual finals are in the water.

The Aqua Centurions round out the field, and while less heralded as a team, Monday marks the return of Federica Pellegrini to ISL after her struggles with COVID-19.

Results

ISL Match 10 Team Scores (through 14 events):

Cali Condors 285
LA Current 238
London Roar 212
Aqua Centurions 142

ISL Match 10 MVP Standings

Ryan Murphy, LA Current 38.5
Caeleb Dressel, Cali Condors 36
Olivia Smoliga, Cali Condors 29.5
Beata Nelson, Cali Condors 27.5
Nicolo Martinenghi, Aqua Centurions 23.5
Beryl Gastaldello, LA Current 22
Molly Hannis, Cali Condors 20.5
Hali Flickinger, Cali Condors 20.5
Abbey Weitzeil, LA Current 20
Lilly King, Cali Condors 19

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Women’s 100 Fly

Beryl Gastaldello gets the Current on the board first in ISL Match 10 with a win in the 100 fly in 55.71, her fastest time of the season. With Aly Tetzloff in third place and Gastaldello taking a jackpot, that’s 18 points for the Current. Kelsi Dahlia nearly caught Gastaldello at the wall, .01 behind. London’s Marie Wattel was fourth.

Men’s 100 Fly

In a matchup of three winners of the event this season, Caeleb Dressel took top honors, getting to the wall first in 49.02 seconds, his third win in the event. It’s his fastest time of the season and quicker than the ISL record he set last year.

Tom Shields, who took that record this season, was denied a fourth win, going 49.17. Third was Marcin Cieslak with big points for the Condors. Aqua Centurion’s Szebasztian Szabo slid to fifth.

Women’s 200 Back

Federica Pellegrini’s return came in a stroke she hasn’t swum much, the Italian distance freestyler brushing off her one-time backstroke ability. She ended up fifth, more than three seconds off the pace.

The win was a Cali Condors duel, Beata Nelson getting to the wall first in 2:02.51, ahead of teammate Hali Flickinger by a half second. That’s a 17-point haul for the Condors. The Current went 3-4 with Helena Gasson and Ali DeLoof.

Men’s 200 Back

Ryan Murphy took the lead and held on, holding off a charge from Radoslaw Kawecki to get the win in 1:48.60. Only four swimmers avoided the jackpot, meaning Murphy took 19 points for the Current. Kawecki was second in 1:48.79. London scored twice via Luke Greenbank and Christian Diener in third and fourth, respectively.

Women’s 200 Breast

For Lilly King, 31-for-31 was a race too far: Annie Lazor dethroned King in the 200 breast, outsplitting King by more than a second in the third 50 to get to the wall first in 2:17.04. King was second in 2:17.18 in what quickly became a two-person race between the Americans.

“I swim next to her every single day, so just like I know her race strategy, I know who she is as a competitor,” Lazor said on the broadcast. “I know she’s only going to get better from here today. She’s one of the reasons why I’m the swimmer I am today.”

Sydney Pickrem was third, giving London Roar 16 points in the event.

Men’s 200 Breast

Neck and neck the last 100, Will Licon got the better of Kirill Prigoda down the stretch, getting to the wall first in 2:04.12 to earn the victory for the LA Current. Prigoda was .09 seconds behind. Third went to the Current’s Josh Prenot.

Women’s 4×100 Free Relay

A big win from a reshuffled London Roar squad that handed the anchor leg to Maria Kameneva, and she rewarded the Roar with a win by .04, rallying past the Condors. The squad of Anna Hopkin, Freya Anderson, Marie Wattel and Kameneva clocked in at 3:28.65, rallying from third at the halfway point.

The Condors (Olivia Smoliga, Erika Brown, Allison Schmitt, Natalie Hinds) were second. Third was the LA Current, which had led in the second leg courtesy of Anastasia Gorbenko but faded.

Men’s 50 Free

Caeleb Dressel took no prisoners in the 50 free, dominating the field with a 20.52, the fastest time of the ISL season and a .37 edge over the field. Dressel earned 19 points via the jackpot; among the points he took was fifth-place Maxime Rooney, who set a personal-best 21.45.

Second was Kristian Gkolomeev in 20.89. Szebasztian Szabo was third with Dressel’s Condors teammate Justin Ress fourth. That’s 24 points for the Condors and none for the Roar in the event in a huge turnaround.

Women’s 50 Free

Eyebrows were raised by the 400 freestyle relay, with the Current opting not to use Beryl Gastaldello and effectively splitting the relays with Abbey Weitzeil on the team that finished fifth. But it paid off in the 50 free, a 1-2 for LA Current with a jackpot. Weitzeil set the American record in 23.45 seconds, jackpotting her way to 15 points. Gastaldello was second, reaping 22 points for the Current.

Olivia Smoliga was third for the Condors.

It allows the Current to overtake the Condors into first place by seven points.

Men’s 200 IM

Thought not the fastest race, the 200 IM was one of the most intriguing races, with Vini Lanza rallying with a furious final 50 to get the win in 1:53.70, the top four swimmers separated by less than a half-second. The London Roar racer rallied from fourth at the final turn to first at the wall with a 26.97 split.

Second was Aqua Centurions’ Philip Heintz, .03 back. Andreas Vazaios was third, .09 back, and Andrew Seliskar took fourth.

Women’s 200 IM

It might just be the race of ISL Match 10: Three hundredths of a second separating three swimmers at the wall.

Beata Nelson weathered the best breaststroke leg that Sydney Pickrem could throw at her, rallying in freestyle to get to the wall first in 2:05.95. Pickrem took second, and Anastasia Gorbenko was third for the Current. The result was huge with six jackpot points available and headed to the Condors.

Men’s 50 Breast

Finally a win for Aqua Centurions, with Nicolo Martinenghi getting to the wall in 25.89 seconds and reaping a jackpot, taking points from each of the other teams. Second was Felipe Silva of the Current, and Fabio Scozzoli went third to earn AC 21 points.

Women’s 50 Breast

A losing streak for Lilly King? Perhaps, but it’s cushioned by the win going to another swimmers close to her: Teammate Molly Hannis got to the wall first in 29.17 seconds, nipping King by one-hundredth of a second. Alia Atkinson was third.

The Condors, with the jackpot, took 22 points. The Current where shut out, losing two points thanks to Anastasia Gorbenko being disqualified.

Men’s 4×100 Free Relay

Fourth at the halfway point, Caeleb Dressel clawed the Condors back, upsetting Aqua Centurions’ quest to go 4-for-4 in the men’s relay. Townley Haas got the Condors into second, and Dressel finished it with a 45.28 on the end, the quickest split of the event. The team of Haas, Dressel, Tate Jackson and Kacper Majchrzak went 3:05.52. The Aqua Centurions (Alessandro Miressi, Pedro Spajari, Szebasztian Szabo, Marcelo Chierighini) went 3:05.77. Chiereghini’s 46.07 was the second-fastest split of the race.

The LA Current were third, the Roar fourth and fifth.

Women’s 50 Back

Olivia Smoliga gets another victory, scaring her American record in 25.85 seconds and dominating the field. She earned six points on the jackpot.

Second was London’s Kira Toussaint, with Etiene Medeiros third for the Aqua Centurions.

Men’s 50 Back

Another day, another Ryan Murphy jackpot. Fifteen points to the Current star, going 22.75 to get the win. It’s the fastest time of the season by .01, in a battle of the three fastest 50 backstrokers this season. Second was London’s Guilherme Guido in 22.89, ahead of teammate Christian Diener, who saw his top time of the season dashed, in 23.24.

Women’s 400 Free

Hali Flickinger didn’t quite dominate the field in the way anticipated, but she was first at every wall, controlling the race throughout and the only swimmer under four minutes to win in 3:59.78. Second was Aqua Centurions’ Valentine Dumont in 4:00.05. The Condors picked up 18 points in the event with Haley Anderson getting third place.

Men’s 400 Free

The distance engine that is Mykhaylo Romanchuk kept methodically turning over to lead Aqua Centurions to a win and 12 points via the jackpot. His time was 3:38.93 in a Ukrainian record. Second was Fernando Scheffer of the LA Current, and London’s Tom Dean picked up third.

Women’s 4×100 Medley Relay

The Cali Condors have control of the skins, leading wire-to-wire to clock in at 3:47.13, the fastest time of the season in ISL. The squad was Olivia Smoliga, Lilly King, Kelsi Dahlia and Erika Brown.

The Condors are in the cat bird seat for skins, choosing backstroke with Smoliga.

Second was London Roar in 3:48.15 with the LA Current third.

Men’s 4×100 Medley Relay

The LA Current wrapped up ISL Match 10 with the victory in the relay. It started with Ryan Murphy going out in 49.80, and the match will end with Murphy in the backstroke skins as the Current have control. The squad of Murphy, Felipe Silva, Tom Shields and Maxime Rooney went 3:21.26, 1.5 seconds ahead of Aqua Centurions. Third were the London Roar, with the Cali Condors foursome with Caeleb Dressel a disappointing fifth.

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