WCU Swim Competes at Operating Eagle Invite

MARIETTA, Ga. – Carey swim competed in Georgia on Saturday afternoon. The males got here away with a 139-114 loss to life while the ladies misplaced 132-113 to Life and 130-123 to Brenau.
 
Both groups began off the day with wins within the 200-yard medley relay. Grace Funck. Chloe Picon, Bisma Khan, & Eszter Kardos picked up a slender win over Life’s group by 1.7 seconds, ending in 1:52.68. Yusuf Balaban, Hunter Boudreau, Nedas Giedraitis, & Janos Szabo then went even nearer, beating out life’s group by 1.61 seconds and ending in 1:35.10.
 
Abigail Krott picked up her first first place end of the day, seeing Carey choose up consecutive gold medal finishes. Krott gained the 1000-yard freestyle in 11:19.24, 25 seconds forward of Brenau’s Ariel Furhman in second place.
 
WCU picked up two first place finishes, and two of the highest three finishes, within the males’s and ladies’s 100-yard breaststroke. Picon completed first to say gold on the ladies’s facet, beating out Petra Beky of Life by 0.48 seconds. Brooks Sipes rounded out the highest three, ending third. Szabo claimed first on the boys’s facet, narrowly beating out fellow Crusader Boudreau by 0.07 seconds.
 
Carey picked up back-to-back sweeps as they swept the 200-yard butterfly. Krott picked up her second, first place end of the day as she pipped one other Crusader, Kardos, in second place. Nedas Giedraitis accomplished the sweep as he beat out second place Tyler Braly of Life, ending in 1:55.51.
 
Szabo grew to become the second Crusader to say his second, first place particular person end on the day. Szabo picked up the gold medal end within the 100-yard freestyle, successful by 0.69 seconds forward of second place Leo Guleyruz.
 

Balaban & Boudreau then picked up the second and third first place finishes in a row for the Crusaders. They went back-to-back, claiming wins within the 200-yard backstroke & the 200-yard breaststroke. Picon & Sipes additionally claimed high 3 finishes within the girls’s 200-yard breaststroke as they completed 2^nd & 3^rd respectively.
 

Giedraitis & Balaban claimed two extra first place finishes in back-to-back races. Giedraitis picked up his end within the 100-yard butterfly earlier than Balaban claimed his within the 200-yard particular person medley.
 

Both groups completed off the day with high two finishes within the 200-yard freestyle relay. On the ladies’s facet, Kardos, Funck, Khan, & Picon claimed the gold medal end. The Lady Crusaders knocked off the group from Life by 0.86 seconds. Szabo, Blaise Boyd, Giedraitis, & Josiah Blankenship claimed second, ending 0.28 seconds behind the winner.
 
WCU Swimming are again in motion on Saturday, November 8^th as they host Thomas University (Ga.). That assembly shall be hosted in Biloxi, Miss. within the Biloxi Natatorium.
 
William Carey Men’s Individual Results
200-yard medley relay – 1, (Yusuf Balaban, Hunter Boudreau, Nedas Giedraitis, Janos Szabo), 1:35.10; 5, (Matthew Hughes, Joshua Pratt, Blaise Boyd, Josiah Blankenship), 1:42.58
1000-yard freestyle – 2, Miguel Vieira, 9:52.34
200-yard freestyle – 2, Josiah Blankenship, 1:48.00
100-yard backstroke – 2, Yusuf Balaban, 54.63; 4, Matthew Hughes, 1:00.16
100-yard breaststroke – 1, Janos Szabo, 58.41; 2, Hunter Boudreau, 58.48; 6, Joshua Pratt, 1:04.78
200-yard butterfly – 1, Nedas Giedraitis, 1:55.51; 4 Carter Diecidue, 2:11.94
50-yard freestyle – 2, Blaise Boyd, 22.03
100-yard freestyle – 1, Janos Szabo, 46.95
200-yard backstroke – 1, Yusuf Balaban, 1:59.12; 4, Matthew Hughes, 2:15.21
200-yard breaststroke – 1, Hunter Boudreau, 2:10.11
500-yard freestyle – 3, Miguel Vieira, 4:49.53; 4, Josiah Blankenship, 5:05.19; 6, Carter Diecidue, 5:15.35
100-yard butterfly – 1, Nedas Giedraitis, 51.63; 2, Blaise Boyd, 53.62
200-yard particular person medley – 1, Yusuf Balaban, 1:56.54; 5 Joshua Pratt, 2:11.28
200-yard freestyle relay – 2, (Janos Szabo, Blaise Boyd, Nedas Giedraitis, Josiah Blankenship), 1:27.62; 5, (Matthew Hughes, Carter Diecidue, Joshua Pratt, Hunter Boudreau), 1:34.70
 
Men’s Team Results
Life 139 – 114 William Carey
 
William Carey Women’s Individual Results
200-yard medley relay – 1, (Grace Funck, Chloe Picon, Bisma Khan, Eszter Kardos), 1:52.68; 5, (Chloe Lee, Kelsey Shand, Abigail Krot, Brooks Sipes), 1:58.86
1000-yard freestyle – 1, Abigail Krot, 11:19.24
200-yard freestyle – 6, Chloe Lee, 2:12.29; 8, Victoria Murphy, 2:17.64
100-yard backstroke – 2, Grace Funck, 1:02.16; 4, Anastasia Newton, 1:05.14
100-yard breaststroke – 1, Chloe Picon, 1:09.19; 3, Brooks Sipes, 1:11.90; 4, Kelsey Shand, 1:12.47
200-yard butterfly – 1, Abigail Krot, 2:15.39; 2, Eszter Kardos, 2:17.95
50-yard freestyle – 2, Bisma Khan, 26.46
100-yard freestyle – 2, Bisma Khan, 57.24
200-yard backstroke – 4, Grace Funck, 2:21.15
200-yard breaststroke – 2, Chloe Picon, 2:32.61; 3 Brooks Sipes, 2:37.46
500-yard freestyle – 5, Victoria Murphy, 6:05.94
100-yard butterfly – 2, Eszter Kardos, 1:02.09; 6, Chloe Lee, 1:06.08; 7, Anastasia Newton, 1:06.19
200-yard particular person medley – 6, Kelsey Shand, 2:26.53
200-yard freestyle relay –1, (Eszter Kardos, Grace Funck, Bisma Khan, Chloe Picon), 1:44.92; 5, (Chloe Lee, Brooks Sipes, Abigail Krot, Victoria Murphy), 1:49.78
 
Women’s Team Results
Life 132 – 113 William Carey
Brenau 130 – 123 William Carey