Males’s Swimming Out Lasts Salem 103-102 in MEC Bounce Again Win

Wheeling, W. Va. – On Saturday, the Wheeling University Men’s Swimming group (7-1, 3-1) dropped their first Mountain East Conference (MEC) contest of the season. Fast ahead to Wednesday night time and the Cardinals would earn a bounce again win as they had been locked in a battle with Salem. It would come right down to the ultimate race of the night time, and the Cardinals would come out on high, choosing up the 103-102 win to spherical out the night time. 

The Cardinals would discover themselves trailing late, and it might all come right down to the 200-Yard Freestyle Relay to find out the winner. Wheeling would ship out the group of Segmen Duygun, Nathan Reigel, Evan Yost, and Alberto Kofinke because the veteran group seemed to deliver it dwelling. They would do exactly that, swimming a time of 1:30.20 to beat out Salem’s A group by just below two seconds within the discipline. It scored the Caridnals 9 key factors late and was sufficient to raise them to the twin meet victory, choosing up their seventh win of the season. It can be the second of two relay wins for the Cardinals, as additionally they took the title within the 400-Yard Medley Relay. The group of Aris Dimakis, Felix Norlin, Meiko Schonekes, and Nathaniel Oliveras took the pool, and the foursome would swim a time of three:38.45 to earn a close to three second victory within the discipline. 

Leading the way in which for the Cardinals within the particular person realm had been Norlin and Duygun, who every completed with two wins on the day, with a kind of coming in a relay occasion for every swimmer. Duygun can be the primary of the 2 swimmers to select up wins as he opened the person occasions within the 1000 Yard Freestyle. He would win the occasion with a time of 10:17.52, beating out the remainder of the sector by just below 22 seconds. It was one of many greatest wins for the Cardinals on the day, and Duygun would spherical out the day with a private finest within the 100 Butterfly, the place he swam a time of 54.35 to spherical out his day with a second place end. Norlin would spherical out the person occasions, choosing up his win within the 200-Yard Individual Medley. He would set a brand new season finest, swimming a time of two:01.25 to spherical out the day along with his first particular person win of the season. 

The different two particular person wins for the Cardinals would come from Archie Pigott and Levi Parker, who every attacked the mid-distance occasions. Pigott would earn a gold medal for the third straight occasion, this time coming within the 100-Yard Breaststroke. Pigott would deliver again the gold, swimming a time of 1:00.63 to beat out the sector by 0.37 seconds. Parker would earn his first gold medal of the season, competing within the 100-Yard Backstroke, and he completed with a time of 57.17 seconds Rounding out the listing of high particular person performers for the Cardinals was Aris Dimakis, who picked up a pair of second place finishes together with the relay win. Dimakis would earn the second place spot within the 50-Yard Freestyle with a time of twenty-two.41 seconds, and rounded out the day with a season-best within the 200 Individual Medley, the place he swam a time of two:02.13. 

The Wheeling University Men’s Swimming group returns to motion on Thursday, November twentieth once they compete on day one of many Malone Midseason Invitational.