TIGERSHARKS EXTEND WINNING STREAKS OVER RED WAVE

ARKADELPHIA – The Ouachita Baptist University swimming & diving groups picked up a sweep over cross-street rival Henderson State on Friday evening at residence, profitable the lads’s twin 137-100 and the ladies’s twin 100-98.

The 18th-ranked Tigershark males’s workforce earned its fifth straight victory over the Red Wave, which entered Friday’s twin ranked No. 25. The Tigershark ladies’s workforce has now received seven in a row over HSU and 13 of the final 15 duals.

The males’s workforce was highlighted by 4 information damaged. The 400 free relay workforce of Sam Ragsdell, Stefan Duca, Ian Redman Aguilar, and James Savarese broke a Waggoner Pool file with a first-place time of three:01.10. Tyler Andruss broke the pool file within the 1,000 free with a first-place time of 9:30.24. Duca broke the pool file for the 200 again with a first-place time of 1:49.45. Pending verification, Evan Wilkerson broke the S12 American Para Swimming file in 200 again with a time of two:07.50.

Duca led the workforce in excessive factors with first-place finishes within the 200 free and 200 again, whereas additionally swimming the second leg of the record-breaking 400 free relay.

Ragsdell was additionally in on three occasions wins, taking the highest spot within the 50 free and the 100 free and taking lead within the 400 free relay winner. He completed third total in excessive factors.

Andruss led the workforce in common efficiency factors, highlighted by the file efficiency within the 1,000 free and a second-place end within the 500 free.

Overall for the lads’s workforce, there have been 4 private bests and 5 season bests. The ladies’s workforce turned in 15 private bests and 6 season bests.

Britta Andruss led the way in which in excessive factors, highlighted by two occasion wins and one second place end. She posted season-best instances in profitable every of the 100 free (53.16) and 200 free (1:54.81). She was leadoff of Ouachita’s second place end within the 400 free relay.

Kaitlyn Koenig completed second within the twin in excessive factors, together with a win within the 500 free and a season-best time of 1:58.38 within the 200 free in a second-place end. Aurora Ruiz and Linzay Taylor additionally made the highest eight. Ruiz received the 200 fly. Taylor turned in a private greatest within the 200 again with a first-place time of two:07.92.

Janna Moellenhoff had three prime 5 finishes, together with a second-place end and a private greatest time of two:10.93 within the 200 particular person medley.

Eden LaTurno had a productive twin for the Tigers with prime three finishes within the 100 free, the 1,650 free, and because the anchor for the 400 medley relay workforce.

The Tigersharks now flip their consideration to the New South Intercollegiate Swim Conference Championships, which will probably be held February 17-21 in Pensacola, Florida.