Swim competes at SSU meet

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio – University of Pikeville males’s and ladies’s swimming took on Shawnee State, Midway University, and WVU-Tech this weekend.  

RJ Goins led the lads’s workforce with two bronze medals, one within the 100 backstroke and the opposite within the 200 backstroke. Jacob Rubado had one third-place end which got here within the 200 breaststroke and a fourth-place end within the 100 breaststroke. Benjamin McLauchlan completed one spot behind Goins within the 100 backstroke with a time of 1:11.16.  

The males’s workforce was defeated 129-60 to Midway, 174-38 to Shawnee State, and 157-54 to WVU-Tech.  

On the ladies’s facet, Madelyn Smith had a pair of third-place finishes within the 100 and 200 breasktroke occasions. Smith additionally got here in fourth within the 200 freestyle. Kaylin Hatfield got here in third within the 100 freestyle and fourth within the 200 particular person medley. Daylin Patrick’s finest end got here within the 200 backstroke the place she swam a time of three:10.06 and completed in fourth place.  

In the head-to-head workforce scores, UPike was defeated 165-34 by Midway and 134-39 by Shawnee State.  

The swim Bears will hit the pool once more on November eighth in Lexington, Ky., for a meet with Transylvania University.  

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