Swimming Opens House Slate Saturday

The Valpo girls’s and males’s swimming groups hosted the primary of 4 house meets on the Valparaiso Aquatic Center Saturday, welcoming Saginaw Valley State to city for a twin meet. The Beacons earned seven mixed occasion wins towards an SVSU program which has each of its groups ranked among the many top-20 in Division II.
 
How It Happened

• The Valpo girls earned 5 particular person occasion wins, led by Roxanne Adams (Aguadilla, Puerto Rico/Homeschooled), who swept the breaststroke occasions. Adams touched the wall first within the 100 breast with a time of 1:09.57 earlier than taking prime honors within the 200 breast with a time of two:29.66.
• Adams’ win within the 100 breast got here as a part of a stretch which noticed the Beacon girls win 4 consecutive occasions. Sophie Schoch (Medina, Ohio/Medina) posted a time of 1:00.92 within the 100 again to win that race, Kailyn Benoit (Sussex, Wis./Hamilton) took the 200 fly with a time of two:12.00 and Una Dizdarevic (Bloomingdale, Ill./Lake Park) sprinted to a win within the 50 free with a time of 24.73.
• Racing the 1650 free for the primary time this season, Ally Unruh (Peoria, Ill./Dunlap) improved upon her second-best time in program historical past as she lined the space in 17:46.88. Unruh additionally led the Beacons and completed second within the 500 free with a time of 5:13.85.
• Schoch added a second-place end within the 200 again with a time of two:09.73 to her 100 again win, whereas Benoit additionally paced the Beacons within the 100 fly.
• Audrey Morgan (Villa Park, Ill./Willowbrook) led the Valpo contingent with a time of 1:55.46 within the 200 free, good for second place, and in addition paced the Beacons within the 100 free. Olivia Tressler (Las Vegas, Nev./Desert Oasis) additionally had a second-place end within the 200 IM, main Valpo as she got here house in 2:17.53.
• The girls closed the meet on a excessive word, because the 200 free relay quartet of Dizdarevic, Bri Keese (Brighton, Colo./Brighton), Faith Bargwell (Grand Rapids, Mich./Rockford) and Morgan took prime honors with a time of 1:38.92.
• On the boys’s aspect, freshman Caleb Smesko (Green, Ohio/Walsh Jesuit) earned Valpo’s lone occasion win as he touched the wall first within the 200 again with a time of 1:54.41. The freshman additionally led the Beacons, coming in second place with a time of 52.40 within the 100 again.
• Two different Valpo males led the group in a pair of occasions. Gabriel Corkran (Avondale Estates, Ga./Druid Hills) posted second-place finishes in each the 200 fly (1:54.31), shifting into seventh place in program historical past in that occasion, and the five hundred free (4:39.78), whereas Isaac Dinari (Houston, Texas/Memorial) paced the Beacons within the sprints, posting instances of 21.82 within the 50 free and 47.80 within the 100 free.
• A season which has been filled with document ebook entries to this point featured one other past Corkran’s on the boys’s aspect Saturday, as Logan Walliker (Washington, Ill./Washington) lined the 1650 free in a team-best 16:49.72, 10^th-fastest in program historical past.
• Carson Parker (Silver Lake, Ind./Tippecanoe Valley) led Valpo with a second-place end within the 100 breast with a time of 1:00.02, whereas Jackson Oostman (Aurora, Ill./Marmion Academy) got here house second within the 200 IM with a team-best time of 1:57.37.
• Evan Curran (Golden, Colo./Golden) paced Valpo within the 200 free, whereas Eli Liebmann (Belleville, Ill./Belleville West) led the Beacons within the 200 breast.
• The Valpo girls dropped their twin meet to SVSU, 150-112, whereas the boys fell by a 187-75 remaining.

 
Next Up
Valpo will host a second consecutive house meet subsequent Saturday at 2 p.m., welcoming the Green Bay women and men and the Butler girls to the Valparaiso Aquatic Center. The Beacons can be recognizing Caroline Gorski and Garrett Hoppman previous to the meet, because the pair of swimmers are each slated to graduate in December.