BERKELEY, CA. Oct. 5. COACH Nort Thornton's Cal Golden Bears men's swimming team — among the contenders for national honors at next spring's
\nNCAA Championships in Austin the final weekend of March — opened their 2002-03 season with a 163-91 win over Pacific in a dual meet at Spieker Aquatics Complex.<\/p>\n
The Bears (1-0) captured every event, with freshmen Mike Cavic, Ryan Lean and Jens Thiele victorious in two events each.<\/p>\n
Cavic, Swimming World<\/i>'s male high school swimmer ofthe year last season, won the 50 yard freestyle in a very fast early-season 20.53 and the 100 yard butterfly (49.68). Lean notched wins in the 1000 free (9:20.16) and 500 (4:32.91). Thiele — a 6-1, 170-pound freshman import from Hamburg, Germany
\n—won the 100 yard backstroke (pr and nation-leading 48.75) and 100 free (45.48).<\/p>\n
Other Cal winners included seniors Joe Bruckart in the 200 free (1:40.37) and Quentin Byma in the 100 breaststroke (56.05), juniors Jeff Natalizio in
\nthe 200 back (1:50.90) and Keith Vogelgesang in the 200 fly (1:52.17), and sophomores Caleb Rowe in the 200 breast (2:03.41) and John Dorr in the 400
\nindividual medley (3:59.85).<\/p>\n
The Bears also won both the 200-yard medley relay (1:34.13) and 200-yard freestyle relay (1:22.83).<\/p>\n
Cal will meet Pacific again Oct. 25-26 as the team travels to Stockton to compete in the Pacific Invitational.<\/p>\n
MIA were defending NCAA 100 free champ (and American\/ NCAA record-holder in the 50-100 frees, senior Anthony Ervin) and junior bacstroker-flyer Alex Lim, who is returning from this week's Asian Games in Korea.<\/p>\n
With those two in their lineup Cal will be a formidable contender and among the favorites to win NCAAs.<\/p>\n
However, if treble-defending national champ Texas is to be thwarted from its quest for a "four-peat" next March at home it'll take a superlative effort by whatever team does the deed.<\/p>\n
The Longhorns under veteran head coach Eddie Reese are the only team since USC (1974-'77) to four-peat, having done so from '88 through '91. Stanford has three-peated a couple of times in the '80s and '90s but has yet to get that elusive fourth-straight championship.<\/p>\n
— Bill Bell<\/p>\n
MEN'S NCAA DIVISION 1 DUAL MEET
\nCAL VS. UOP
\nSPIEKER AQUATIC COMPLEX
\nBERKELEY, CA., Oct. 5<\/p>\n
25 Yd. Pool<\/p>\n
FINAL SCORE<\/p>\n
CAL 163
\nUOP 91<\/p>\n
FINAL RESULTS
\nTop 6 Times<\/p>\n
200-yard Medley Relay
\n1. California 1:34.13
\n(Thiele, Natalizio, Hubbard, Lyon)
\n2. California 1:35.31
\n(Vogeland, Byma, Bruckart, Schmelzer)
\n3. California 1:35.33
\n(Cavic, Dorr, Lane, Lean)
\n4. California 1:35.89
\n(Gibson, Rowe, Delamare, Chase)
\n5. Pacific 1:35.90
\n(Russell, Wronski, Mills, Martinez)
\n6. Pacific 1:39.23
\n(Raimondi, Chiaro, Richardson, Ender)<\/p>\n
1000-yard Freestyle
\n1. Ryan Lean, Cal 9:20.16
\n2. Dorr, Cal 9:39.11
\n3. Whitfield, Pacific 9:51.86
\n4. Lamar, Pacific 9:55.62
\n5. Herlihy, Pacific 10:00.12
\n6. Schmelzer, Cal 10:01.63<\/p>\n
200-yard Freestyle
\n1. Joe Bruckart, Cal 1:40.37
\n2. Whitfield, Pacific 1:40.78
\n3. Lane, Cal 1:42.27
\n4. Russell, Pacific 1:45.64<\/p>\n
100-yard Backstroke
\n1. Jens Thiele, Cal 48.75
\n2. Cavic, Cal 50.84
\n3. Gibson, Cal 51.13
\n4. Radcliff, Pacific 53.58
\n5. Raimondi, Pacific 54.64<\/p>\n
100-yard Breaststroke
\n1. Quentin Byma, Cal 56.05
\n2. Rowe, Cal 56.13
\n3. Wronski, Pacific 57.41
\n4. Natalizio, Cal 58.01
\n5. Dunn, Pacific 1:02.74
\n6. Chiaro, Pacific 1:03.08
\n7. Selde, Pacific 1:03.57<\/p>\n
200-yard Butterfly
\n1. Keith Vogelgesang, Cal 1:52.17
\n2. Mills, Pacific 1:52.89
\n3. Delamare, Cal 1:53.07
\n4. Richardson, Pacific 2:02.47<\/p>\n
50-yard Freestyle
\n1. Mike Cavic, Cal 20.53
\n2. Martinez, Pacific 21.14
\n3. Lane, Cal 21.22
\n4. Hubbard, Cal 21.36
\n5. Lyon, Cal 22.09
\n6. Ender, Pacific 22.23<\/p>\n
100-yard Freestyle
\n1. Jens Thiele, Cal 45.48
\n2. Smart, Pacific 46.65
\n3. Martinez, Pacific 48.63
\n4. Ender, Pacific 49.44
\nEx. Lane, Cal 46.85
\nEx. Lyon, Cal 47.89<\/p>\n
200-yard Backstroke
\n1. Jeff Natalizio, Cal 1:50.90
\n2. Russell, Pacific 1:54.63
\n3. Radcliff, Pacific 1:59.24
\n4. Raimondi, Pacific 1:59.32
\nEx. Gibson, Cal 1:52.15
\nEx. Vogelgesang, Cal 1:56.88<\/p>\n
200-yard Breaststroke
\n1. Caleb Rowe, Cal 2:03.41
\n2. Wronski, Pacific 2;04.53
\n3. Chiaro, Pacific 2:17.17
\n4. Dunn, Pacific 2:17.71
\n5. Selde, Pacific 2:20.11
\nEx. Dorr, Cal 2;05.50
\nEx. Byma, Cal 2:11.32<\/p>\n
500-yard Freestyle
\n1. Ryan Lean, Cal 4:32.91
\n2. Smart, Pacific 4:42.37
\n3. Russell, Pacific 4:45.82
\n4. Herlihy, Pacific 4:51.39
\n5. Lamar, Pacific 4:53.30
\nEx. Schmelzer, Cal 4:48.11
\nEx. Bruckart, Cal 4:48.31<\/p>\n
100-yard Butterfly
\n1. Mike Cavic, Cal 49.68
\n2. Wronski, Pacific 52.42
\n3. Richardson, Pacific 52.71
\n4. Radcliff, Pacific 53.74
\nEx. Byma, Cal 51.55<\/p>\n
400-yard Individual Medley
\n1. John Dorr, Cal 3:59.85
\n2. Mills, Pacific 4:12.49
\n3. Whitfield, Pacific 4:22.34
\n4. Dunn, Pacific 4:29.17
\nEx. Vogelgesang, Cal 4:08.54
\nEx. Delamare, Cal 4:10.82<\/p>\n
200-yard Freestyle Relay
\n1. California 1:22.83
\n(Bruckart, Cavic, Lane, Thiele)
\n2. Pacific 1:27.59
\n3. Pacific 1:33.06
\nEx. California 1:27.56
\n(Lyon, Hubbard, Lean, Rowe)
\nEx. California 1:28.32
\n(Chase, Byma, Gibson, Natalizio)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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