{"id":497714,"date":"2022-02-19T16:26:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T23:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=497714"},"modified":"2022-02-19T16:26:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T23:26:39","slug":"stanford-men-defeat-cal-in-last-relay-for-dual-meet-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/stanford-men-defeat-cal-in-last-relay-for-dual-meet-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanford Men Defeat Cal in Last Relay for Dual Meet Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stanford Men Defeat Cal in Last Relay for Dual Meet Victory<\/strong><\/p>\n

The California Golden Bears have looked like one of the top men’s teams in the nation all season, as they have been for the entirety of\u00a0Dave Durden’s<\/strong> tenure in Berkeley, but in the final dual meet of this season, the cross-bay Stanford Cardinal edged out Cal in an intense dual meet.<\/p>\n

Stanford led 140-137 going into the meet-ending 400 free relay, and Stanford’s Andrei Minakov\u00a0<\/strong>dove in for the anchor leg just a tenth ahead of Cal’s\u00a0Daniel Carr<\/strong>. Minakov then split 41.65 to pull away and secure the win, while Cal was disqualified after a false start by Carr, and Stanford won the meet by a final score of 153-141.<\/p>\n

Leon MacAlister<\/strong>,\u00a0Luke Maurer<\/strong> and\u00a0Jonathan Affeld<\/strong> also swam on that winning relay for Stanford, which touched in 2:49.59, and two of those three swimmers earned individual victories during the meet. MacAlister won the 100 back in 46.07, and he also placed second in the 200 back in 1:40.28, while Affeld touched out Cal’s\u00a0Gabriel Jett<\/strong> to win the 200 fly, 1:41.41 to 1:41.50.<\/p>\n