Penguins Safe Six Occasion Victories on Day 2 of Twin vs. Oakland

Youngstown, Ohio – The Youngstown State males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving packages wrapped up their season-opening twin vs. fellow Horizon League member Oakland on Saturday morning contained in the Beeghly Natatorium.

The morning kicked off the identical approach as yesterday, with the Penguins women and men sweeping victories within the diving occasions. Hanna Held captured her second-consecutive diving victory for the ladies, successful the one-meter dive with a rating of 275.93. Haley Conklin positioned third, scoring 236.33. Rafael Serey-Cormier additionally racked up his second-straight diving victory, successful the lads’s three-meter dive with a rating of 304.20.

To start the swimming occasions, the lads’s and ladies’s high 400-medley relay groups every positioned second, respectively. The ladies’s workforce of Lara Lilic, Hannah Murray, Orla Maccines, and Chloe Moore swam a time of three:52.26, whereas the lads’s workforce of Quinn Cynor, James Slessor, Jacob Gramer, and Noah Smith clocked a time of three:17.52.

YSU swept victories within the 100 butterfly, as Quinn Cynor gained the lads’s race with a time of 48.26, and Orla Maccines gained the ladies’s part with a time of 56.32.

Olivia Sweetman secured a first-place end within the 200 free, clocking a time of 1:52.04.

She additionally gained the five hundred free with a time of 5:00.39, whereas Derin Donmez completed third with a time of 5:06.86.

The YSU males secured the highest two spots within the 50 butterfly, as Quinn Cynor gained the occasion with a time of 21.67, adopted by Jacob Gramer, who was the runner-up with a time of 21.86. Orla Maccines completed runner-up for the ladies, clocking a time of 25.80.

Sweetman additionally led the Penguins ladies within the 100 free, as she completed runner-up with a time of 52.62, whereas Chloe Moore completed third with a time of 52.72. Lorenz Beck led YSU within the males’s 100 free with a time of 45.86.

In the 100 breaststroke occasions, Hannah Murray led the Penguins ladies with a runner-up end, swimming a time of 1:05.10, whereas the Penguins males have been led by James Slessor, who completed second (55.39) and Dominic Panozzo, who completed third (57.21).

The Penguins ladies completed two-three within the 50 breaststroke, as Hannah Murray completed runner-up with a time of 30.15, whereas Helen Bernardi positioned third with a time of 30.23. James Slessor led YSU within the males’s occasion, ending second with a time of 25.26.

Reid Withey led the Penguins males with a third-place end within the 50 backstroke, swimming a time of 23.57.

Jacob Gramer swam to a third-place end within the 50 free, clocking a time of 20.77.

Derin Donmez positioned third within the 400 IM, clocking a time of 4:36.14.

The males’s and ladies’s high relay groups capped off the weekend with runner-up finishes of their respective 200-free relay occasions. The males’s workforce of Quinn Cynor, Noah Smith, Lorenz Beck, and Jacob Gramer swam a time of 1:21.69, simply seven-hundredths of a second slower than Oakland’s first-place workforce, whereas the ladies’s squad of Orla Maccines, Jordan Sarubbi, Hannah Murray, and Chloe Moore swam a time of 1:36.66, simply over one-tenth of a second slower than the first-place time.

Oakland’s males gained by a rating of 196-85, whereas the Oakland ladies gained by a rating of 187-94.

The Penguins will probably be again in motion subsequent week once they make the quick journey to Akron for the Akron Zips Classic on Oct. 10-11.

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