EVANSTON, Ill. – The Nineteenth-ranked Duke girls’s swimming and diving group claimed a 192-142 victory over Northwestern Saturday afternoon contained in the Norris Aquatics Center, bettering to 2-0 all-time towards the Wildcats. On the lads’s facet, Northwestern defeated Duke, 216-118.
SCORES: - Men: Northwestern 216, Duke 118
- Women: No. 19 Duke 192, Northwestern 142
TOP PERFORMANCES – FRIDAY:
- Duke posted 10 first-place finishes on the primary day of the meet, together with a sweep of the 400-yard freestyle relay and 100-yard breaststroke.
- The girls’s quartet of senior Tatum Wall, junior Ali Pfaff, senior Emily Gantriis and freshman Heather White earned the comfy win through a time of three:13.22. On the lads’s facet, the Blue Devil relay of junior Milo Shue, freshmen Owen Waibel and Charlie Kulp and sophomore Colin Mikulecky clocked 2:56.97 to clinch first place.
- Rookie Anderson Kopp earned a victory within the males’s 1000-yard freestyle, swimming to a end of 9:12.74 – practically three seconds quicker than the runner-up. Kopp’s time was a private finest and moved him as much as No. 4 all-time on the Duke charts.
- Keira Lu represented the Blue Devils within the girls’s 3-meter dive and picked up her fifth first-place end of the season. The sophomore delivered a commanding efficiency, posting a rating of 330.00 to cement herself atop the sphere.
- Pfaff secured her second win of the night – this one coming within the 100-yard backstroke –touching the wall in 51.53.
- Senior Kaelyn Gridley and junior Jack Smith locked up first-place finishes for Duke within the 100 breaststroke. Gridley got here in at 59.21 whereas Smith powered to a season’s better of 54.14.
- The girls’s 200-meter butterfly noticed senior Martina Peroni lead wire-to-wire en path to posting her quickest efficiency of the season with a time of 1:57.28.
- Duke closed out day one with two extra standout showings within the girls’s 50-yard freestyle and the ladies’s 200-yard medley relay, respectively.
- In the 50 free, Wall touched first in 21.93 whereas over within the 200 medley relay, the Blue Devil foursome of Pfaff, Gridley, White and Wall blazed to a 1:36.73 end.
TOP PERFORMANCES – SATURDAY:
- The Blue Devils collected eight occasion wins Saturday to push their weekend complete to 18.
- In the ladies’s 400-yard medley, Duke’s relay of sophomore Clare Logan, Gridley, White and Wall blew their competitors out of the water and produced a time of three:32.31 – 5 seconds quicker than the runners-up.
- In the diving portion of Saturday’s slate, Lu notched her second triumph of the weekend through the ladies’s 1-meter dive with a rating of 303.75.
- Pfaff captured her fourth win of the weekend after hitting the wall in 1:53.59 within the girls’s 200-yard backstroke.
- Gridley (2:09.93) and freshman Raphael Wang (1:56.82) delivered seasons bests of their respective races and swam previous their competitors to energy Duke to a sweep of the lads’s and girls’s 200-yard breaststroke. Wang’s mark slotted himself No. 6 all-time in program lore.
- Wall and White saved the momentum going for the Blue Devils because the duo earned their fifth and fourth titles of the weekend, respectively, with robust performances of their occasions. Wall competed within the 100-yard freestyle and posted a time of 48.09, whereas White took half within the 100-yard butterfly and accomplished her race in 53.73.
- Duke closed out motion within the pool with an thrilling race within the girls’s 200-yard freestyle relay. The occasion went down-to-the-wire, with the Blue Devil foursome of Wall, Pfaff, Gantriis and White closing robust to edge out the hosts with a 1:29.38 end.
UP NEXT:
Duke diving will participate within the Georgia Tech Invitational from Nov. 13-15 in Atlanta, Georgia. The Blue Devils will compete alongside Alabama, Auburn, East Carolina, Florida State and Virginia Tech.
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