TIGERSHARK MEN’S TEAM THRASHES EAGLES

ARKADELPHIA – The Ouachita males’s swimming & diving group got here away with a commanding victory over Oklahoma Christian on Wednesday night time within the first duel of the season.

Final rating was 146.5 to 90.5 in favor of the Tigersharks, who lengthen their duel successful streak to 14 together with final 12 months’s 10-0 mark in duels and the final three duels of the 2023-24 season.

The motion began with a primary and second place end within the 400-yard medley relay, the place the Tigersharks knocked down the OCU A-relay to 3rd. Ouachita’s A relay group included Mikhail Lymar, Lucas Cagle, David Ware, and Ian Redman Aguilar. The Tigershark B relay group included Stefan Duca, Anthony Paculba, Michael Higgins, and James Savarese.

Senior Sam Ragsdell led the way in which with wins within the 50 and 100-yard freestyle occasions, additionally being a member of the successful relay within the 200-yard freestyle relay.

Other particular person first-place finishers on the night time had been freshman Stefan Duca (200 freestyle), junior Carson Powers (three-meter dive), senior Tyler Andruss (500 freestyle), Anthony Paculba (200 backstroke) and Gabriel Palomino (one-meter dive). Palomino posted an NCAA qualifier rating of 318.05 within the one-meter dive.

The Tigersharks are again on the highway this Friday and Saturday in Springfield, Missouri towards the Bears of Missouri State.