EVANSTON, Illinois, January 19. THE No. 17 Northwestern celebrated Senior Day with a 189-111 win over No. 21 Notre Dame at the Norris Aquatics Center.<\/p>\n
The Wildcats improve their dual meet record to 6-5 on the season with the win, while the Fighting Irish fall to 3-6 on the year with their loss.<\/p>\n
Northwestern kicked off the meet with a win in the 400 medley relay, swimming a time of 3:22.75. Adam Beckman (Kearney, Neb.\/Kearney), John Franklin (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.\/North Broward Prep), Kyle Bubolz (Waukesha, Wis.\/Waukesha North) and Bruno Barbic (Zagreb, Croatia\/V. Gymnazija) comprised the relay for the 'Cats.<\/p>\n
In the 1,000 free, Northwestern freshman Peter Park (Princeton, N.J.\/Peddie School) and Notre Dame's Andrew Deters were neck-and-neck at the 500-yard mark, then Park blasted ahead to win the race by more than seven seconds with a season-best time of 9:24.11. Senior Daniel Walls (Tucson, Ariz.\/Sabino) also had a season-best effort for NU, finishing third with a 9:35.52.<\/p>\n
Junior Eric Nilsson (Weston, Mass.\/Weston) won the 200 free with a 1:40.57, followed in second by freshman Sean Mathews (St. Louis, Mo.\/Lafayette), who turned in a time of 1:42.87.<\/p>\n
Bubolz and sophomore Jake Vogel (Canton, Ill.\/Canton) swept the top two spots in the 100 back with times of 51.24 and 51.87, respectively. Vogel out-touched Notre Dame's Andrew MacKay by .02 of a second to claim the second-place finish.<\/p>\n
Franklin won the 100 breast with a 57.20, besting Notre Dame's Sam Pendergast by .08 of a second. Senior Adam Lewno (Racine, Wis.\/J.I. Case) had a strong showing with a third-place time of 59.80.<\/p>\n
Northwestern continued to dominate the first part of the meet, sweeping the top three positions in the 200 fly. Nilsson won by more than three seconds with a time of 1:49.04, besting teammates Park in second (1:52.08) and Mathews (1:54.45) in third.<\/p>\n
Notre Dame claimed its first win of the meet when John Lytle took first in the 50 free with a 20.85, followed by three Northwestern swimmers. Senior Jon Ehret (Phoenix, Ariz.\/Brophy College Prep) was second with a 21.10, Barbic finished third with a 21.25 and freshman Brian Kerr (East Grand Rapids, Mich.\/East Grand Rapids) was fourth with a 21.89.<\/p>\n
During the first diving break, ND's Michael Bulfin won the 3-meter board with a score of 390.98, while Northwestern senior Ryan McIntosh (Louisville, Ky.\/Trinity) put up an NU-season-best score of 356.70 to take second.<\/p>\n
ND picked up its third event win in a row following the break with Lytle's 45.14 in the 100 free, but Barbic (46.19) and Bubolz (46.99) finished second and third for the 'Cats.<\/p>\n
Beckman's 1:50.67 in the 200 back was good enough to claim victory, while Franklin won his second event of the day with a 2:05.13 in the 200 breast. Nilsson's third win came via a 4:32.48 in the 500 free, followed by Walls in second with a 4:38.55.<\/p>\n
Bubolz got a race from teammates Ehret and senior Charlie Cunnick (Davenport, Iowa\/Davenport Central) in the 100 fly, with the trio sweeping the top three spots. Bubolz swam a 51.39, besting Ehret's 51.76 and Cunnick's 52.03.<\/p>\n
During the second diving break, McIntosh recorded his second team-season-best score of the day with a first-place effort of 326.70 on the 1-meter board.<\/p>\n
Coming out of the break, Park won his second event of the day with a 4:02.92 in the 400 IM before NU's team of Nilsson, Barbic, Beckman and Mathews swam a 3:03.51 to win the 400 free relay. <\/p>\n
Special thanks to Northwestern for contributing this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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