CARBONDALE, Ill. – Swim and dive was in motion on Saturday with a house meet in opposition to Evansville and Indiana State’s ladies’s solely crew. It was additionally Senior Day for Southern, who honored 12 seniors earlier than the meet started. Both Saluki groups took down Evansville, however the ladies’s crew fell to Indiana State.
How it Happened The Salukis began the day with a one-two end within the ladies’s 200-medley relay, and the boys’s “B” and “C” adopted up with bookending the their 200-medley relay occasion. Southern’s first particular person win got here courtesy of
Joshua Aceves within the males’s 1000-freestyle, the place his teammate completed as runner-up.
Susy Hernandez, one of many senior honored pre-meet got here up with a gold medal of her personal within the 200-freestyle, and
Willem Huggins claimed first on the boys’s facet of the occasion. Moving to the 100-backstroke,
Liseska Gallegos Gutierrez gained the ladies’s occasion whereas senior
Alex Cimera took care of enterprise on the boys’s facet.
Another senior,
Olivia Herron, got here in first within the ladies’s 100-breaststroke, whereas freshman
Maddax Thompson did so within the males’s model of the occasion.
Nate Worsham was the subsequent Saluki to win an occasion, doing so within the males’s 200-butterfly, and
Benedek Andor adopted go well with within the 50-freestyle.
Once diving occasions started,
Oliver Mebs took the crown within the one-meter dive. Hernandez grabbed one other gold medal within the 100-freestyle. In the boys’s 100-freestyle, Cimera gained one other occasion. Gallegos then snagged herself one other gold medal within the 200-backstroke.
In the 200-breaststroke occasion, Herron took first for the ladies’s facet and Thompson did so for the boys’s crew. Tomas Peciar got here out on prime within the males’s 500-freestyle, and Cimera added one other win to his resume together with his first-place end within the 100-butterfly. In the ultimate particular person occasion of the day, Herron and
Juraj Barcot claimed first place within the 200-IM. The meet wrapped up with the 200-freestyle relay, which SIU’s males’s “A” crew took the crown in.
Up Next Swim and dive now has virtually every week off till they’re again in motion at residence verus McKendree on Friday, Jan. 16, at 2 p.m.
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