{"id":413371,"date":"2020-01-31T19:40:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T02:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=413371"},"modified":"2020-02-02T10:01:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T17:01:10","slug":"penn-state-sweeps-villanova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/penn-state-sweeps-villanova\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn State Sweeps Villanova"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wildcats of Villanova completed their two-day travel with a stop in University Park to face the Nittany Lions of Penn State. After splitting with West Virginia yesterday<\/a>, Villanova dropped both meets to their in-state foe.<\/p>\n

SCORES<\/strong><\/p>\n

PSU men – 180, Villanova women – 79<\/p>\n

PSU women – 167.5, Villanova women – 93.5<\/p>\n

Results<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Penn State Recap – men<\/span><\/p>\n

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. \u2013 The Penn State men’s swimming & diving team dominated Villanova, 180-79, Friday evening at McCoy Natatorium. The Nittany Lions finished the meet with seven 1-2-3 sweeps and juniors Gabe Castano<\/a><\/dfn> and Hayden Harlow<\/a><\/dfn> combined for two event wins each.<\/p>\n

Top Swims<\/p>\n

Senior captain Liam Veregin<\/a> secured a win for the Nittany Lions after placing first in the 100 back (48.48), and assisted in wins of both the 200 medley relay and 200 free relay. His co-captain, Austin Wilson<\/a>, also added to the final score with two second-place finishes in the 50 free (21.07) and 200 back (1:51.51). Wilson was also a member of the winning 200 free relay team who set a new pool record.<\/p>\n

Castano and Harlow led the team with two wins each. Castano won both the 50 free – posting an NCAA B-Cut time of 19.64 – and the 100 free (44.05). Teammate Harlow clinched first with a career-best time in the 100 breast (54.74) and added a win in the 200 IM with a time of 1:47.88.<\/p>\n

Both Zac Zwijacz<\/a><\/dfn> and Sam Rennard<\/a><\/dfn> posted two top-three finishes for the Nittany Lions. Zwijacz won the 200 free (1:42.20) and placed third in the 200 fly (1:56.87). Rennard secured first with a career-best time in the 1000 free (9:28.34) and finished third in the 500 free with a time of 4:41.74.<\/p>\n

Nittany Lion Relays<\/p>\n

To start out the meet, Penn State swept the 200 medley relay with the team of William Roberson<\/a><\/dfn>, Brad Johnson<\/a><\/dfn>, Veregin, and Castano clinching first with a new pool record time of 1:27.90.<\/p>\n

Although the Nittany Lions swam the 200 free relay as an exhibition, they posted the top three times, and the winning team of Castano, Veregin, Roberson, and Wilson set a pool record with a final time of 1:19.72.<\/p>\n

Top Dives<\/p>\n

The Nittany Lions swept the 1-meter where freshman Kevin Sullivan<\/a><\/dfn> and junior Bryce Hoch<\/a><\/dfn> both finished with career-bests and NCAA Zone qualifying scores. Sullivan secured first with a score of 310.43 and Hoch was right behind him placing second with a final score of 308.70.<\/p>\n

Jonah Cey<\/a> earned two top-three finishes after placing second in the 3-meter (311.03) and third in the 1-meter scoring 282.00.<\/p>\n

Event Winners<\/p>\n