Wittenberg vs. Denison

GRANVILLE, Ohio, January 14. THE Denison men's swimming and diving team closed out their North Coast Athletic Conference schedule with a 168-103 victory over the Tigers of Wittenberg University on Friday evening in Granville, Ohio.

Big Red junior Mike Barczak (Beverly Hills, Mich./Brother Rice) led Denison with three wins, while seniors Jake Lewing (Yardley, Pa./Pennsbury) and Kyle Chabot (Washington, Mich./Stoney Creek), and freshman Spencer Fronk (Cherry Hills Village, Colo./Cherry Creek) all notched two wins each. Individually, Barczak won the 50 freestyle with a time of 21.54, and swam the final leg of both the 200 medley (1:35.51) and freestyle (1:26.07) relays.

Joining Barczak on the 200 medley relay were junior Michael DeSantis (Beverly Hills, Mich./Groves), Lewing and Chabot, while Chabot, Fronk and senior Andrew Krawchyk (Severna Park, Md./East Chapel Hill [N.C.]) were the other three members of the 200 freestyle foursome. Lewing and Fronk also won individual titles in the 100 breast (1:00.96) and 100 free (47.43), respectively.

Other DU winners included senior Cody Smith (Ardmore, Pa./Haverford), juniors Robert Barry (Richmond, Va./St. Christopher's School) and Dan Thurston (Ann Arbor, Mich./Huron), sophomore Jay Haney (Lewis Center, Ohio/Olentangy) and rookie Brad Ratliff (Eldersburg, Md./Century). Smith accumulated 317.63 points en route to winning the 1-meter dive, while Barry touched in at 52.13 to capture the 100 back crown. Thurston finished first in the 200 fly with a time of 1:58.94, while Haney won the 1,000 free (10:03.71) and Ratliff was victorious in the 200 free (1:46.96).

Meanwhile, the Denison University women's swimming and diving team closed out the conference season with a perfect 4-0 record following a 153-125 victory over Wittenberg University on Friday night in Granville.

Rookie Morgan Nuess (Kettering, Ohio/Dayton Christian) paced the Big Red with three victories, while sophomore Alyssa Swanson (Aurora, Colo./Regis Jesuit) logged a pair of wins. Nuess won the 50 freestyle with a time of 24.64. The first-year also swam the anchor on both the 200 medley relay and 200 free relay. The 200 medley relay team of Lindsay Zeberlein (Highlands Ranch, Colo./Mountain Vista), Natalie Lugg (Woodbury, Minn./Woodbury), Lauren Wine (Indianapolis, Ind./Lawrence North) and Nuess touched in at 1:47.58, while the 200 free foursome of Swanson, Lianne McCluskey (Hope, Maine/Camden Hills Regional), Victoria Masney and Nuess finished in 1:37.75. Swanson's other victory came in the 1,000 freestyle where she clocked in at 10:22.94

Also logging wins for DU were senior Ksenia Golovkina (Newton, Mass./Newton South), juniors Hilary Callen (Oswego, N.Y./Oswego) and Emily Schroeder (Fishers, Ind./Hamilton Southeastern), sophomore Cari Martin (Beavercreek, Ohio/Beavercreek) and first-year Dallas Manson (Torrington, Conn./Torrington). Golovkina won the 100 free with a time of 53.57, while Callen and Schroder won the 200 free (1:56.35) and 200 fly (2:10.24), respectively. Martin touched in at 1:00.54 to win the 100 back, while Manson won the 1-meter event with a six-dive score of 2:15.33.

Denison returns to action on Saturday (Jan. 22) when they travel to Grove City College. First event is scheduled to start at 1 p.m.

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