Hokies take down No. 19 Duke as each squads earn wins over the Blue Devils

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. – The Hokie ladies upset the No. 19 Duke Blue Devils, incomes the win 134-109. The males, at present ranked seventeenth, additionally got here out on prime, taking down Duke 147-87. 

The squads posted 17 Top 25 instances nationally, highlighted by Brendan Whitfield’s 100 free swim (41.79) and his 50 freestyle to guide off the 200 free relay (19.10) – each of which rank No. 3 within the nation.

Whitfield additionally posted a 1:26.10 within the 200 free, good for Tenth within the nation. The males’s 200 medley relay squads tied for first place, rating Tenth nationally (1:26.10). The ladies’s first-place 200 free relay recorded a 1:29.86, good for a No. 11 nationwide rating. Carmen Weiler Sastre tied for No. 12 nationally within the 100 again along with her second-place 52.07 swim, and jumped to twentieth within the nation within the 200 free (1:45.43).

Rocky Ramsland posted a 328.50 on 1m, good for the Tenth-best rating within the nation. On 3m, Nathan Cox scored a 366.98, good for Tenth nationally, with Jacob Fisher coming in behind him at thirteenth (250.18). Bengisu Caymaz ranks 18th nationally and fifth in program historical past within the 1000 free along with her time of 9:49.47, and Kate Anderson ranks twenty first nationally with a 9:52.65.

Emily Santos joined the nationally-ranked Hokies with a 1:00.72 swim within the 100 breast, the Nineteenth-fastest time within the nation this season. Esther Park jumped into this system Top 10 instances (No. 10) along with her 1:01.61 100 breast. On 1m, Michayla Eisenberg ranked twentieth (269.70), Peyton Guzeic ranked twenty first (268.80), and Grace Austin ranked twenty third (264.08). Jacob Fisher posted a 294.15 rating twentieth, with Nathan Cox coming in at No. 25 (287.10). 

First Place Finishers:
200 medley relay:
Gentry, Martin, Hayon, Aranda, 1:26.10
Balogh, Maloney, George Mathews, Nuñez, 1:26.10 

1000 free:
Bengisu Caymaz, 9:49.47
Lee Naber, 9:09.42

50 free:
Emily Claesson, 22.59
Javier Nunez, 19.87

100 free:
Brendan Whitfield, 41.79 

200 free:
Carmen Weiler Sastre, 1:45.43
Brendan Whitfield, 1:33.79

500 free:
Kate Anderson, 4:50.62
Jakub Poliacik, 4:22.94

100 fly:
Athena Meneses Kovacs, 53.30
Will Hayon, 47.02

100 breast:
Eli Martin, 53.31

100 again:
Connor Johnson, 47.81

200 free relay:
Weiler Sastre, Claesson, Gyurinovics, Tan, 1:29.86
Whitfield, Gentry, Aranda, Hayon, 2:57.90

1m:
Rocky Ramsland, 328.50

3m:
Nathan Cox, 366.98

Second Place Finishers:
200 medley relay:
Meneses Kovacs, Lysy, Morgan, Gyurinovics, 1:40.21

100 again:
Carmen Weiler Sastre, 52.07 

100 free:
Emily Claesson, 48.87

200 IM:
Nichelly Lysy, 2:01.30

100 breast:
Emily Santos, 1:00.71

1m:
Michayla Eisenberg, 269.70

3m:
Grace Austin, 280.88

Next Up: 
The Hokies take per week off earlier than touring to the Raleigh Rumble, taking up NC State and Ohio State Nov. 7-8.