WATERVILLE, Maine — In a day that can go down in Bates athletics historical past, the boys’s swimming and diving staff captured 4 convention titles and set 4 meet data Friday on the NESCAC Championships.
The No. 24 nationally ranked Bobcats are in fourth place total with two days remaining, having tallied 470 factors as a staff. They are inside placing distance of third-place Amherst (496 factors) and well-ahead of fifth-place Connecticut College (415 factors).
Friday Highlights
- The Bates 200-yard freestyle relay staff of junior John Weigel (Iowa City, Iowa), senior captain Max Cory (Dublin, Calif.), junior Benjamin Wolking (Micanopy, Fla.), and senior captain Marrich Somridhivej (South Windsor, Conn.) received the NESCAC title with a brand new college, convention, meet, and pool document time of 1:19.47.
- Somridhivej set a brand new NCAA Division III document within the 50-yard breaststroke along with his prelims time of 23.87 seconds. Then he secured the NESCAC title within the championship last in 24.04 seconds.
- Cory broke the meet, pool, and college document within the 50-yard freestyle along with his prelims time of 19.53 seconds. Then he took dwelling the NESCAC title within the championship last in 19.61 seconds. Meanwhile, Wolking was fourth within the comfort last in 20.64 seconds after swimming a prelims time of 20.63 seconds.
- The Bates 400-yard medley relay staff of junior Tim Johnson (Brewster, Mass.), Somridhivej, sophomore Nate Oppenheim (Easton, Conn.), and Cory captured the NESCAC title with a brand new college, convention, meet, and pool document time of 3:09.84.
- This marks the second straight 12 months Bates has received the 200-yard freestyle relay title and Cory has received the 50-yard freestyle title. These are the primary NESCAC titles in program historical past within the 50-yard breaststroke and the 400-yard medley relay.
- Junior Noah Katz (Hallowell, Maine) broke the Bates document within the 50-yard breaststroke along with his morning prelims time of 24.69 seconds, solely to see Somridhivej break it once more within the very subsequent warmth. Then Katz took fourth place within the championship last in 24.82 seconds.
- Johnson took fifth place within the championship last of the 200-yard IM in 1:50.16 after swimming a prelims time of 1:50.12. Meanwhile, Oppenheim was fourth within the comfort last in 1:51.18.
- The Bates ‘B’ staff within the 200-yard freestyle relay of Oppenheim, senior Kyle Beebe (Chatham, N.J.), senior Kailer Tom (Daly City, Calif.), and senior Nate Pierce (Fairfield, Maine) recorded the second-fastest time of all of the ‘B’ groups within the convention, racing to the end in 1:22.13.
- Junior Liam Friedlander (Pittsburgh, Pa.) took second within the comfort last of the 500-yard freestyle in 4:35.20 after swimming a prelims time of 4:35.08. Sophomore Anton Kondratyev (Belle Mead, N.J.) and first-year Will Trotman (Ridgefield, Conn.) positioned second and third respectively within the preconsolation last with instances of 4:35.54 and 4:36.82.
- Tom was third within the comfort last of the 50-yard breaststroke in 25.74 seconds after swimming a morning prelims time of 25.58 seconds.
- Beebe took fifth within the comfort last of the 50-yard backstroke in 23.80 seconds after swimming a prelims time of 23.76 seconds. Meanwhile, sophomore Zach White (Santa Barbara, Calif.) received the preconsolation last in 23.13 seconds.
- Sophomore Xander Theodos (Saint Louis, Mo.) positioned third within the preconsolation last of the 50-yard butterfly in 22.81 seconds.
- White, Tom, Friedlander, and Pierce teamed as much as place fourth among the many ‘B’ groups within the 400-yard medley relay, racing to the end in 3:21.34.
The Bobcats return to motion on the NESCAC Championships on Saturday, with prelims at 10 a.m. and finals at 5:45 p.m.