Swimming & Diving Returns to Motion in Relay Meet with Amherst

BABSON PARK, Mass.—The Babson College males’s and girls’s swimming & diving groups returned to motion on Friday night time competing in opposition to Amherst College in a non-scoring relay meet. 

The Beavers completed because the runner-up in 9 of 17 swimming occasions and recorded one first- and 4 top-three ends in diving. 

The Babson ladies got here in second in a pair of relays starting with the trio of first-year Becky Hwang (Needham, Mass.), senior Jenny Chung (Cumming, Ga.) and first-year Middy Hinckley (Trent Woods, N.C.) posting a time of three:20.24 within the 3×100-yard backstroke. Sophomore Marta Gershanok (Closter, N.J.), senior Vangella Randell (Holden, Mass.) and first-year Finn Bergquist (Marblehead, Mass.) adopted it up by inserting within the 3×100 breaststroke with a time of three:54.03. 

The Beavers got here in second in six of eight males’s swimming occasions, starting with the quartet of sophomores Nehemiah Rhee (Paramus, N.J.), Nathan Huynh (Naperville, Ill.), Thomas Ambelang (Bernardsville, N.J.) and Tommy Hannenian (Sacramento, Calif.) touching the wall with a time of 1:37.71 within the 200 medley relay. Ambelang and Rhee teamed with junior Anthony Taslakov (Sherborn, Mass.) to take second within the 3×100 backstroke with a time of two:41.09, whereas Huynh joined sophomore William Iglar (Marietta, Ga.) and first-year Matthias McFarlane (Trumbull, Conn.) in ending second with their time of three:00.88 within the 3×100 breaststroke. 

Taslakov, Hannenian, Rhee and Ambelang captured second place with a time of 4:14.85 within the 500 free relay, which was adopted by Iglar, McFarlane and sophomore Dom Crisafulli (Natick, Mass.) coming in because the runner-up within the 3×100 medley in a time of two:44.63. Taslakov, Hannenian, sophomore Phillip Spiridonov (Ridgewood, N.J.) and Huynh then completed second with a time of three:17.04 within the 400 free relay. 

Babson’s lone first-place end of the meet got here on the 1-meter diving board the place junior David Krol (Grafton, Mass.) posted a six-dive rating of 278.80. Krol additionally completed second on the 3-meter board whereas first-year Hadi AlDayaa (Chelmsford, Mass.) got here in third in each diving occasions. 

The Beavers get  proper again within the pool on Saturday at 11 a.m. once they return to twin meet competitors in opposition to Wesleyan in Middletown, Conn.