{"id":514941,"date":"2022-10-22T13:07:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T20:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=514941"},"modified":"2022-10-22T13:07:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T20:07:45","slug":"alfonso-mestre-claims-distance-wins-balanced-florida-mens-team-takes-down-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/alfonso-mestre-claims-distance-wins-balanced-florida-mens-team-takes-down-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfonso Mestre Claims Distance Wins, Balanced Florida Men&#8217;s Team Takes Down Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alfonso Mestre Claims Distance Wins, Balanced Florida Men&#8217;s Team Takes Down Virginia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/gretchen-walsh-dazzles-four-other-swimmers-double-as-virginia-women-dominate-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Virginia women put up some swift times in a win over Florida<\/a>, another matchup of ranked opponents was occurring in the same pool, and in the men&#8217;s meet, the Gators came out triumphant over the Cavaliers by a 189-to-111 final score as seven different Florida swimmers recorded at least one first-place finish. Florida finished third at last year&#8217;s NCAA Championships, but the Gators are retooling this year with world champions\u00a0<strong>Bobby Finke<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Kieran Smith<\/strong> having moved on from college swimming. But Florida got a big pickup this year in\u00a0<strong>Josh Liendo<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/canadian-star-joshua-liendo-taking-his-talents-to-the-university-of-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Commonwealth Games gold medalist and World Championships medalist this summer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The standout performer in the meet was senior <strong>Alfonso Mestre<\/strong>, who led a pair 1-2-3 finishes for Florida in the 1000 freestyle (9:06.91) and 500 free (4:21.70). The top showdown of the day came in the 50 free, where Liendo swam the top time in the nation so far this year at 19.27 to beat out Virginia&#8217;s <strong>Matt<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>King<\/strong> (19.42, sixth-ranked nationally). <strong>Trey Freeman<\/strong>, a prelims swimmer on the U.S. men&#8217;s world-title-winning 800 free relay this year, captured first place in the 200 free for Florida in 1:36.14, and the 100 backstroke went to <strong>Adam Chaney<\/strong> in 47.65.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mason Laur<\/strong> swam a time of 1:46.55 in the 200 butterfly to take first place in a field where the top three swimmers (including Florida&#8217;s <span class=\"sidearm-roster-player-first-name\"><strong>Joaquin Gonzalez Pinero<\/strong> and UVA&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Josh Fong\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>Kamal Muhammad<\/strong>) were separated by just three tenths. <strong>Eric Friese <\/strong>won the 100 fly in 46.78, with Liendo just behind (47.05), and in the 200 IM,\u00a0<strong>Kevin Vargas<\/strong> used a scintillating final 50 yards of freestyle to overtake Virginia&#8217;s Muhammad and\u00a0<strong>Noah Nichols<\/strong> and win in 1:47.15. Vargas trailed Muhammad by more than a second with 50 yards to go, but he finished in a ridiculous 25.01 split. <\/span>Florida&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Elisha Dees<\/strong> won 1-meter diving (298.65), and\u00a0<strong>Christopher Donald <\/strong>took first in 3-meter (345.60).<\/p>\n<p>Virginia had a chance to score a big win in the 200 medley relay at the start of the meet, but the Cavaliers squad, which touched more than a second ahead of Florida&#8217;s top group, was disqualified, leaving Chaney,\u00a0<strong>Julian Smith<\/strong>,\u00a0Friese and Liendo as the winners in 1:25.94. Both Chaney and Friese returned from last year&#8217;s national-title-winning group in this event. Later on,\u00a0<strong>Macguire McDuff<\/strong>, Liendo, Friese and\u00a0<strong>Alberto Mestre\u00a0<\/strong>(older brother of Alfonso) won the 400 free relay in 2:52.24.<\/p>\n<p>For Virginia, Nichols swam the third-quickest time in the country in the 100 breaststroke at 52.23, and then he won the 200 breast in 1:55.00 to move into a tie for fifth place nationally. King, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/u-s-nationals-zach-apple-and-matt-king-share-title-in-100-freestyle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tied for first in the 100-meter free at U.S. Nationals<\/a>, cruised to the 100 free win in 42.68, and he later led off Virginia&#8217;s 400 free relay in 42.46, which ranks him behind Arizona State&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Grant House<\/strong> as the second-fastest swimmer in the country. In the 200 back, Virginia&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Jack Aikins<\/strong> held off a late charge from Chaney to take the win, 1:46.06 to 1:46.20.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/static.virginiasports.com\/custompages\/livestats\/w-swim\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Results<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alfonso Mestre Claims Distance Wins, Balanced Florida Men&#8217;s Team Takes Down Virginia As the Virginia women put up some swift times in a win over Florida, another matchup of ranked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":501208,"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":[49364,65009,62404,67919,126720,59784,46364],"class_list":["post-514941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-college","tag-acc-swimming","tag-adam-chaney","tag-alfonso-mestre","tag-josh-liendo","tag-matt-king","tag-noah-nichols","tag-sec-swimming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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