November has officially hit the 2017-2018 season as the Big Ten is starting to get into conference matchups as we close in on the November invitationals at the end of the month. Here is how the Big Ten fared this weekend.<\/p>\n
Michigan swept Minnesota, Penn State and Wisconsin in the Big Ten quad in Minneapolis, where the men’s Big Ten and NCAA meets will be held. Minnesota men and women both beat\u00a0Wisconsin and Penn State and Wisconsin swept Penn State in the two-day quad.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Minnesota and Michigan women traded blows on Friday night as the\u00a0Wolverines started the meet with a win in the 200 free relay (1:30.80) as they lead the Big Ten in that event this season so far. Michigan also got wins from\u00a0Siobhan Haughey\u00a0<\/strong>in the 200 IM (1:56.62),\u00a0Rose Bi\u00a0<\/strong>in the 500 (4:41.26) and\u00a0Catie DeLoof\u00a0<\/strong>in the 100 free (49.73).<\/p>\n Minnesota won all the other women’s events but one on Friday night with\u00a0Tevyn Waddell\u00a0<\/strong>in the 100 back (53.25),\u00a0Lindsey Kozelsky\u00a0<\/strong>in the 200 breast (2:12.87) and the 400 medley relay team of Waddell (53.49), Kozelsky (1:00.85),\u00a0Danielle Nack\u00a0<\/strong>(53.76) and\u00a0Zoe Avestruz\u00a0<\/strong>(49.85) for a 3:37.95. Wisconsin’s\u00a0Beata Nelson\u00a0<\/strong>won the other event on Friday night with a 1:58.01 in the 200 fly.<\/p>\n The Badger women showed up more on Saturday as they won four of the nine pool events on Saturday afternoon. They started with a win in the 200 medley relay (1:39.88) and got individual wins from\u00a0Emmy Sehmann\u00a0<\/strong>in the 50 (23.16) and\u00a0Beata Nelson\u00a0<\/strong>in the 200 back (1:55.06) and the 100 fly (53.95). Nelson tied with Minnesota’s Nack in the 100 fly for the win. The Gophers lone win on Saturday came from Kozelsky in the 100 breast (1:00.74) as she beat Michigan sophomore\u00a0Miranda Tucker\u00a0<\/strong>in both breaststroke events on the weekend.<\/p>\n Michigan’s\u00a0Bi\u00a0<\/strong>won the 400 IM (4:15.44) and the 1000 (9:45.54) and Haughey won the 200 free (1:45.86) and finished the meet with a win in the 400 free relay (3:19.62).<\/p>\n The Michigan men had a similarly dominant performance in Minneapolis as they opened up Friday with wins in every single pool event except two. Their individual Friday wins came from\u00a0Evan White\u00a0<\/strong>in the 200 IM (1:46.99),\u00a0Felix Auboeck\u00a0<\/strong>in the 500 (4:21.34),\u00a0Paul Powers\u00a0<\/strong>in the 100 free (44.00) and\u00a0Miles Smachlo\u00a0<\/strong>in the 200 fly (1:47.08). The Wolverines also won the 200 free relay (1:19.37) and the 400 medley relay (3:14.54).<\/p>\n Wisconsin and Minnesota each got one win on Friday night as the Badgers’\u00a0Matt Novinski\u00a0<\/strong>won the 100 back (48.04) and the Gophers’\u00a0Conner McHugh\u00a0<\/strong>won the 200 breast (1:56.79).<\/p>\n On Saturday, the Wolverines won six of the nine events.\u00a0Charlie Swanson\u00a0<\/strong>won the 400 IM (3:54.53),\u00a0Felix Auboeck\u00a0<\/strong>won the 200 free (1:37.22),\u00a0Evan White\u00a0<\/strong>won the 100 fly (47.63) and\u00a0Ricardo Vargas\u00a0<\/strong>won the 1000 (9:06.55) for the Wolverines on Saturday afternoon. They also swept the relays with wins in the 200 medley (1:27.84) and the 400 free (2:57.92).<\/p>\n The Gophers got two wins on Saturday from\u00a0Bowen Becker\u00a0<\/strong>in the 50 (20.06) in a slight upset over Michigan’s Powers, and\u00a0Conner McHugh\u00a0<\/strong>in the 100 breast (54.47). Wisconsin’s\u00a0Todd McCarthy\u00a0<\/strong>also won the 200 back at 1:47.01.<\/p>\n The Iowa men finished first and second on the final 400 free relay to steal a victory in West Lafayette from Purdue 152-148. Iowa’s\u00a0Kenneth Mende\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Jerzy Traworski\u00a0<\/strong>starred for the Hawkeyes as Mende won the 100 (48.85) and 200 back (1:46.56). Twarowski won both butterfly events (47.85, 1:48.65) and split a 45.51 in the final 400 free relay.<\/p>\n Iowa closed out the meet with a 3:01.06 in the 400 free relay thanks to\u00a0Joe Myhre\u00a0<\/strong>anchoring at 44.40, which was the fastest after Iowa’s other anchor\u00a0Jack Smith\u00a0<\/strong>swam last on the B relay with a 44.33. Iowa is coming off a big win against Minnesota last week and has continued that momentum into this week with another conference win over Purdue.<\/p>\n Purdue also had good swims from seniors\u00a0Marat Amaltdinov\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Adam Noens\u00a0<\/strong>in the 200 breast (1:59.17) and the 200 IM (1:50.27) respectively. Amaltdinov also won the 100 breast ahead of freshman\u00a0Trent Pellini\u00a0<\/strong>(54.73) to Pellini’s 54.75.<\/p>\n The Purdue women beat Iowa 176-123 as senior\u00a0Kaersten Meitz\u00a0<\/strong>was the star of the night with wins in the 1000 (9:39.42) and 500 (4:44.29). Meitz leads the Big Ten in the 1000 and is fourth nationally in that event. Junior\u00a0Taite Kitchel\u00a0<\/strong>also swam well for the Boilermakers as she won three events, the 200 fly (1:59.76), 100 fly (54.17) and the 200 IM (2:03.70).<\/p>\n Ohio State beat Denison and Akron in a co-ed meet between the in-state rivals.\u00a0Molly Kowal<\/strong>,\u00a0Meg Bailey<\/strong> and\u00a0Genevieve Angerame\u00a0<\/strong>had two wins each. Bailey had a good day winning the 200 fly (1:59.13) and the 200 IM (2:01.08) as she sits fourth and fifth in those events respectively in the Big Ten.\u00a0Freya Raymer\u00a0<\/strong>(22.87)\u00a0and\u00a0Macie McNichols\u00a0<\/strong>(22.88) went 1-2 in the 50 free to sit third and fourth in the Big Ten this year in that event.<\/p>\n Noah Lense\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Nick Hogsed\u00a0<\/strong>came up big for the Buckeye men as Lense won both butterfly events (48.56, 1:48.87) in the Buckeyes win over Division III Denison. Hogsed won the 200 free (1:38.47) and the 200 IM (1:52.65) while\u00a0Brayden Seal\u00a0<\/strong>won the 500 (4:30.57) and the 200 free (1:39.13).<\/p>\n Northwestern men beat Southern Illinois and lost to SEC opponents Kentucky and Missouri in the two day Saluki Invitational in Carbondale. The Wildcats are a young team with a good freshman class at the front.\u00a0Lyon Zhang\u00a0<\/strong>had the fastest 400 IM (4:06.74) and the 200 breast (2:06.22),\u00a0Liam Gately\u00a0<\/strong>in the 200 (1:43.73) and the 500 free (4:36.07), and\u00a0Dongjin Hwang\u00a0<\/strong>had the fastest 1000 (9:29.17) for the Wildcats.<\/p>\n Illinois lost on the road at Florida International 251.5-166.5 in a two-day duel meet.\u00a0Sam Stratford\u00a0<\/strong>won\u00a0five events on the weekend with the 200 fly (2:00.72), the 200 free (1:49.16) the 100 IM (57.66), the 100 free (51.50) and the 400 IM (4:22.66). The Illini also got wins from\u00a0Michelle McCord\u00a0<\/strong>in the 200 IM (2:06.00) and\u00a0Monica Guyett\u00a0<\/strong>in the 1000 (10:20.12).<\/p>\n The Cornhuskers of Nebraska dropped a 154-84 decision to Arkansas in Fayetteville as the Huskers lone win came from\u00a0Jordan Ehly\u00a0<\/strong>in the 200 breast (2:15.74).<\/p>\n Rutgers defeated Georgetown and Seton Hall and lost to Pittsburgh in the Penta-meet on Friday night. The Scarlet Knights had wins from\u00a0Francesca Stoppa\u00a0<\/strong>in the 200 fly (2:00.89) and Francesca Bertotto\u00a0<\/strong>in the 500 (4:57.51).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" November has officially hit the 2017-2018 season as the Big Ten is starting to get into conference matchups as we close in on the November invitationals at the end of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":235729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[53355,33590,56005,30145,54262,34605,40674,58120,25288,40686,64447,62890,50818,35598,63977,50143,37493,64444,29904,45347,64446,55669,64445,33723,34165,25924,46732,41689,45830,28387,51276,58777,48269,34412,32623,51857,33558],"class_list":["post-282987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-college","tag-adam-noens","tag-beata-nelson","tag-bowen-becker","tag-brayden-seal","tag-charlie-swanson","tag-conner-mchugh","tag-danielle-nack","tag-emmy-sehmann","tag-evan-white","tag-felix-auboeck","tag-francesca-bertotto","tag-francesca-stoppa","tag-genevieve-angerame","tag-jack-smith","tag-joe-myhre","tag-kenneth-mende","tag-liam-gately","tag-lindsey-kozelsky","tag-macie-mcnichols","tag-marat-amaltdinov","tag-matt-novinski","tag-meg-bailey","tag-michelle-mccord","tag-miles-smachlo","tag-miranda-tucker","tag-molly-kowal","tag-monica-guyett","tag-nick-hogsed","tag-noah-lense","tag-paul-powers","tag-ricardo-vargas","tag-rose-bi","tag-sam-stratford","tag-siobhan-haughey","tag-todd-mccarthy","tag-trent-pellini","tag-zoe-avestruz"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n\u00a0Iowa vs. Purdue<\/h3>\n
In Non-Conference Action<\/h3>\n