Red Wave Delivers Robust Displaying in Rivalry Meet

ARKADELPHIA, Ar. — The Henderson State males’s and girls’s swimming and diving groups delivered robust performances this Friday night time on the Battle of the Ravine, ending second general behind Ouachita Baptist in a tightly contested twin meet.

The Red Wave opened the meet with momentum, as each relay squads posted robust finishes within the 400 medley relay. The males’s A relay group of Avery Henke, Oskar Cebula, Colin Candebat, and Olivér Pózvai touched first with a time of three:21.74, whereas the ladies’s A relay positioned first as properly in 3:58.97 to offer Henderson State an early benefit.

The Red Wave managed the gap occasions, highlighted by Daniela Ruiz’s victory within the girls’s 1,650 freestyle with a time of 18:03.69. On the boys’s facet, Alan González Mujica captured first within the 500 freestyle (4:37.01), whereas Colton Bennett and Bartu Akin added second- and third-place finishes within the 1,000 freestyle to stack key factors.

Nojus Skirutis delivered a standout efficiency within the 200 butterfly, posting an NCAA Division II “B” reduce together with his time within the occasion. Skirtus’s swim not solely secured key factors for the Red Wave but additionally marked a major milestone in his season, inserting him among the many high Division II performers nationally within the 200 fly.

In the person medley occasions, Henderson State dominated each races. Emma Crowe gained the ladies’s 200 IM in 2:10.43, whereas Nojus Skirutis captured first within the males’s 200 IM with a time of 1:52.41. Skirutis additionally added a win within the 200 butterfly (1:49.26), and Colin Candebat and Stevie Balistreri adopted carefully behind to safe extra factors.

The breaststroke races had been led by the Red Wave, as Irem Erktan took first within the girls’s 200 breaststroke (2:28.84) and Monroe Chittum positioned second. On the boys’s facet, Mark Eberhard completed second within the 200 breaststroke (2:06.72), whereas Avery Henke added a third-place end.

Henderson State additionally managed the dash occasions, with Ryleigh Wells and Raven Roberts tying for first within the girls’s 50 freestyle, whereas Gavin Kock led the boys with a third-place end within the 50 freestyle. In the 100 freestyle, Shelby Travis recorded a second-place end for the Red Wave, and Olivér Pózvai added a third-place end on the boys’s facet.

In the backstroke occasions, Hunter Rytting paced the Red Wave with a second-place end within the males’s 200 backstroke, whereas Tayden Drake led the ladies with a third-place end within the 200 backstroke.

The Red Wave closed the meet robust within the relays, successful the ladies’s 400 freestyle relay because the group of Emma Crowe, Iris McNamara, Raven Roberts, and Shelby Travis touched first in 3:34.97. The males’s 400 freestyle relay group additionally positioned second to shut out the meet.

Overall, Henderson State captured a number of occasion victories and positioned swimmers throughout scoring positions all through the lineup. The depth and consistency on each side saved the Red Wave within the hunt till the ultimate relay.

The Red Wave will return to motion Feb. 17–22 on the NSISC Championships in Pensacola, Florida.