Swimming Sweeps Duals Saturday at Wabash

The most profitable twin meet season in many years for the Valpo swimming program noticed the Beacons add to their victory whole on each the lads’s and girls’s facet Saturday. The males took down host Wabash and Illinois Wesleyan, whereas the ladies defeated their sole opponent in Illinois Wesleyan as effectively.
 
The Results

• The Beacon males earned a 164-70 victory over Wabash Saturday and received 172-14 over Illinois Wesleyan, bettering their twin meet file to 7-3 this 12 months.
• The seven victories are essentially the most for the Valpo males in a single marketing campaign since they earned eight wins within the 1988-89 season.
• On the ladies’s facet, Valpo bested Illinois Wesleyan by a 142-60 last to push its file to 6-4 this 12 months.
• That is the perfect profitable share and most wins for the Valpo ladies because the 1991-92 staff posted an ideal 13-0 file in twin meets.

 
Saturday’s Swims

• Valpo took prime honors in 19 of Saturday’s 22 occasions.
• On the ladies’s facet, Olivia Tressler (Las Vegas, Nev./Desert Oasis) earned a pair of particular person victories, touching the wall first within the 200 IM with a time of two:16.74 and within the 200 again with a time of two:14.59.
• Five different Beacons earned particular person occasion wins: Ally Unruh (Peoria, Ill./Dunlap) within the 1650 free (17:51.69), Una Dizdarevic (Bloomingdale, Ill./Lake Park) within the 50 free (25.32), Faith Bargwell (Grand Rapids, Mich./Rockford) within the 200 fly (2:20.95), Audrey Morgan (Villa Park, Ill./Willowbrook) within the 100 free (54.39) and Roxanne Adams (Aguadilla, Puerto Rico/Homeschooled) within the 200 breast (2:32.50).
• The Valpo ladies received each relay occasions as effectively. Sophie Schoch (Medina, Ohio/Medina), Natalie Eaton (Tulsa, Okla./Jenks), Kailyn Benoit (Sussex, Wis./Hamilton) and Morgan claimed the 400 medley relay with a time of 4:06.22, whereas Dizdarevic, Bargwell, Bri Keese (Brighton, Colo./Brighton) and Morgan captured the 200 free relay in 1:40.68.
• On the lads’s facet, Evan Curran (Golden, Colo./Golden) led the way in which with a pair of particular person occasion wins, coming house in entrance within the 200 free (1:46.26) and the five hundred free (5:00.36). Curran additionally anchored Valpo’s profitable 400 medley relay, becoming a member of Caleb Smesko (Green, Ohio/Walsh Jesuit), Carson Parker (Silver Lake, Ind./Tippecanoe Valley) and Asa Sadowsky (Green Bay, Wis./Bay Port [Milwaukee]) to cowl that distance in 3:32.21.
• Six different Valpo males earned particular person occasion victories: Logan Walliker (Washington, Ill./Washington) within the 1650 free (16:37.98), Isaac Dinari (Houston, Texas/Memorial) within the 50 free (21.78), Jackson Oostman (Aurora, Ill./Marmion Academy) within the 200 IM (1:58.13), Nate Bolinger (Plainfield, Ind./Plainfield) within the 200 fly (1:58.91), Anthony Martin (Bartlett, Ill./Bartlett) within the 100 free (48.91) and Gabe Vasquez (Houston, Texas/Memorial) within the 200 breast (2:13.99).
• Dinari, Ben Mettler (Sussex, Wis./Hamilton), Luke Snider (Germantown, Tenn./Memphis University School) and Martin closed the meet with a profitable time of 1:27.14 within the 200 free relay.

 
Next Up
Valpo takes to the pool for the ultimate time within the common season subsequent Sunday, Feb. 1 at 11 a.m. CT on the Butler Invitational in Fishers, Ind. The meet was initially scheduled for this Sunday, however was postponed attributable to projected inclement climate. With that postponement, the scheduled males’s twin meet at Ball State slated for Jan. 31 has been canceled.