SSU males’s swimming wins 4 occasions at Indiana Wesleyan twin meet

MARION, Ind. — The males’s swimming program at Shawnee State acquitted itself nicely in a twin meet towards Indiana Wesleyan, scoring 4 occasion victories as Robert Gibson swept the lengthy distance freestyle races whereas Tony Goodwin’s efficiency within the 100 yard fly and Shawnee State’s meet-winning efficiency within the 200 yard freestyle relay and Shawnee State’s 200 yard freestyle relay ‘A’ group’s time have been additionally winners Saturday in a meet that was held at Indiana Wesleyan University’s De Voe Natatorium in Marion, Ind.

Gibson, who swam instances of 5:02.56 and 10:34.24 within the 500 and 1,000 yard freestyles, received two occasions for the second consecutive weekend to guide the Bears’ output. Gibson received the five hundred yard freestyle by almost 13 full seconds and took house the 1,000 yard freestyle by almost 21-and-a-half seconds in two dominating efficiency the place the true freshman coated the sector with relative ease.

Goodwin, a real sophomore, continued constructing on a vivid spot to his profession, swimming a 54.60 to win the 100 yard freestyle by almost 1.4 seconds. The Shawnee State ‘A’ group of Gibson, Goodwin, Kutay Ababay and Josiah Changar added in Shawnee State’s closing victory of the day with a robust efficiency within the 200 yard freestyle relay, because the quartet collectively swam a 1:27.84 — bettering Indiana Wesleyan’s ‘A’ group by over two full seconds whereas coming inside two full seconds of the NAIA provisional lower time within the 200 yard freestyle relay.

Other notable performances are as follows:

• 50 yard freestyle — Tony Goodwin (22.92), second
• 100 yard freestyle — Kutay Ababay (48.06), second, only a tenth and 6 one-hundreths off of NAIA provisional lower
• 200 yard freestyle relay — Shawnee State ‘A’ (Ababay, Changar, Gibson, Goodwin), 1:41.30, second; Shawnee State ‘B’ (Luke Lunsford, Aidan Montgomery, Josiah Ramdeen, Alex Ray), 1:43.53, third
• 200 yard freestyle — Luke Lunsford, second (1:54.58); Alex Ray, third (1:55.86), Thomas Kessler, fourth (1:58.71)
• 100 yard breaststroke — Josiah Ramdeen, third (1:05.39)

The males’s swimming program at Shawnee State will probably be again in motion alongside the ladies’s swimming program when the Bears tackle Indiana Wesleyan once more in three weeks’ time Saturday, Nov. 22, when the Wildcats make the return journey to Shawnee State and the Warsaw Aquatic Center.

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