{"id":301598,"date":"2018-03-21T16:28:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T23:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=301598"},"modified":"2019-09-24T07:39:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T14:39:45","slug":"justin-ress-anchors-nc-state-to-4x200-relay-victory-to-open-ncaas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/justin-ress-anchors-nc-state-to-4x200-relay-victory-to-open-ncaas\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Ress Anchors NC State to 4&#215;200 Relay Victory to Open NCAAs; New NCAA Record; American Record for Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/blake-pieroni-becomes-first-man-under-130-in-200-free-leads-off-relay-in-129-62-townley-haas-also-under-old-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Blake Pieroni\u00a0<\/strong>became the first man to break 1:30 in the 200 free<\/a> leading off the 4&#215;200 free relay at the NCAA championships, putting up a time of 1:29.63. The Hoosiers held the lead until the anchor, but NC State&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Justin Ress\u00a0<\/strong>put his team in front and gave them the first title of the meet.<\/p>\n<p>The team of\u00a0<strong>Andreas Vazaios\u00a0<\/strong>(1:31.32),\u00a0<strong>Ryan Held\u00a0<\/strong>(1:31.09),\u00a0<strong>Jacob Molacek<\/strong> (1:32.13) and Ress (1:30.77) finished in 6:05.31, crushing the previous NCAA and U.S. Open record of 6:06.53 set last year.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana&#8217;s quartet of Pieroni,\u00a0<strong>Mohamed Samy<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Vini Lanza\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Ian Finnerty\u00a0<\/strong>took second in 6:06.01, also under last year&#8217;s record.<\/p>\n<p>Third went to the Texas team of\u00a0<strong>Townley Haas<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Jeff Newkirk<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Jonathan Roberts\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Austin Katz <\/strong>in 6:07.59. Haas led off in 1:30.41, under his previous American and NCAA record of 1:30.41, but he was beaten handily by Pieroni. Texas&#8217; time was a new American record, breaking the mark of 6:08.61 another Longhorn foursome (that included Haas and Newkirk) set last year.<\/p>\n<p>Florida, which as expected swam without superstar\u00a0<strong>Caeleb Dressel<\/strong>, took fifth in 6:09.52. Georgia took fifth out of the first heat of the event, posting a time of 6:12.75.<\/p>\n<p>Cal, led off by\u00a0<strong>Andrew Seliskar\u00a0<\/strong>in 1:31.28, finished sixth in 6:13.38, followed by Louisville (6:13.49) and Stanford (6:14.75).<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Harvard finished 11th in 6:16.68, but sophomore\u00a0<strong>Dean Farris\u00a0<\/strong>sparkled with a 1:30.55 split on the second leg. Auburn finished 17th in 6:17.86, and\u00a0<strong>Zach Apple\u00a0<\/strong>led the way with a 1:30.74 on the anchor leg.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/results\/2018-mens-ncaa-championships-day-one\/ncaa-college\/2018\/March\/21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>FULL RESULTS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><b>Event 1  Men 800 Yard Freestyle Relay<\/b>\r\n==================================================================================\r\n         NCAA: N 6:06.53  3\/22\/2017 NC State\r\n                          R Held, A Vazaros, J Ress, S Dahl\r\n     American: A 6:08.61  3\/22\/2017 Texas\r\n                          J Conger, J Newkirk, C Smith, T Haas\r\n   U. S. 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