Minnesota Leads Purdue and Northwestern in Big Ten Tri-Meet

By Andy Ross, Big Ten Beat Writer

Minnesota came to play in Evanston against conference rivals Northwestern and Purdue. The Gophers started and ended the day with relay wins with Zoe Avestruz, Rachel Munson, Danielle Nack and Lauren Votava winning the 200 medley relay (1:41.64) and Votava, Avestruz, Nack and Abigail Raatz winning the 400 free relay (3:20.23).

Minnesota also got a win from Sam Harding in the 1000 with a 9:48.97 over Purdue’s Kaersten Meitz (9:51.95). Sophomores Nack and Brooke Zeiger raced to wins in the 200 fly (1:59.21) and 200 IM (2:02.08) respectively.

Purdue had two wins on the day from the women with senior Allie Davis winning the 200 free (1:46.20) and fellow senior Emily Fogle winning the 100 breast (1:01.53).

Northwestern also collected two wins on the women’s side in their home pool with junior Lacey Locke in the 100 back (55.18) and Mary Warren in the 50 free (23.13).

On the men’s side, it was Minnesota who dominated the day with two relay wins. Daryl Turner, Conner McHugh, Paul Fair and Bowen Becker won the 200 medley relay with a 1:28.40 and Turner, Fair, Becker and Noah Busch won the 400 free relay with a 2:57.42.

Junior Turner won the 100 back for the Gophers at a very fast 47.31. McHugh won the 100 breast at 55.61 and Becker won the 50 with a 20.22 to give the Gophers a sound advantage on the Boilermakers and Wildcats.

Purdue got wins from Josh Brooks in the 1000 (9:22.03), who split a 25.29 on his last 50 to overtake Minnesota’s Michael Messner who finished with a 25.52 and a 9:22.06. Boilermaker senior Daniel Conway also won the 200 fly with a 1:48.93.

Northwestern picked up two wins thanks to freshman Anthony Marcantonio. The transfer won the 200 free with a 1:38.62 ahead of Fair of Minnesota at 1:38.68. Marcantonio then returned to win the 200 IM at 1:50.36 holding off a charging Brian Poon of Minnesota.

It was also evident in the results that Purdue did not take some of its best swimmers in sophomore breaststroker Marat Amaltdinov and senior sprinter Adam Johnston. This was due to some of the upperclassmen getting the stomach flu within the past week.

The meet will conclude tomorrow from Evanston at 12PM central standard time.

Women’s Team Scores:

PU 129 NU 57

MN 109 PU 77

MN 127 NU 59

Men’s Team Scores:

PU 99 NU 87

MN 117 PU 69

MN 121 NU 64

2016 Purdue vs. Minnesota vs. Northwestern – Results

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Ohannes Antranig Sulahian

8 years ago

Perfect