9 Occasion Sweeps and 16 Totally different Winners for Oakland Swim and Dive In opposition to Wayne State

ROCHESTER, Mich. – In their ultimate residence occasion for the season, the Oakland University swimming and diving crew delivered a dominant efficiency, securing a dual-meet victory over Wayne State on the OU Aquatic Center.

Oakland recorded sweeps in 9 official occasions, and posted the quickest occasions in three further races. In whole, 16 completely different Golden Grizzlies earned official particular person first-place finishes, with two extra victories coming from further athletes for 18 whole distinctive wins.

To open the meet, the ladies’s 200 medley relay was swept by the Black and Gold. The A relay crew of Grace Albrecht, Maya Dobry, Viviane Partridge, and Kelley Hassett received in 1:46.59, with the B and C crew relays shut behind to take second and third. On the boys’s facet, Oakland went 1-2, because the A crew of Ajjuub Ezzat, Christopher Palvadre, Micah Scheffer, and Charles Brown touched first.

The longest race of the day additionally went to Oakland on either side. Megan Donnelly claimed the ladies’s 1650 free title, whereas Nicholas Karel Subagyo took the boys’s race. Delaney Buckner and Victor Teeters completed second and third, respectively, of their occasions.

Oakland then swept the subsequent 4 occasions. In the 200 free, Hassett, Avery Beal, and Nora Molnar went 1-2-3 for the ladies, whereas Ike Martinez, Cooper Dillman, Carson Ricker, and Andrew Gelston swept the highest 4 spots within the males’s race. The 50 free noticed the Golden Grizzlies occupy the highest 4 spots as nicely. Kendra Venter, Erika Pietras, Partridge, and Ellie Todd led the ladies, whereas Scheffer, Harry Nicholson, Palvadre, and Caleb Rohacs swept the boys’s facet.

In the 200 IM, Lydia Soldatke and Clarissa Bezuidenhout completed first and second general for the ladies, whereas Max Haney and Eli Stoll positioned first and third for the boys. Bezuidenhout and Stoll later matched their podium finishes within the 100 again, with Venter and Ezzat incomes the victories of their respective races.

Oakland divers additionally turned in robust performances. Elizabeth Woollcott and Abigail McCool positioned second and third on the 1-meter dive, then got here again to complete second and first, respectively, on the 3-meter. Alayna Okonoski accomplished the rostrum sweep on the 3-meter by inserting third. On the boys’s facet, Liam James and Owen Cox each earned high finishes, with James taking first on the 1-meter and third on the 3-meter, and Cox inserting second on the 1-meter and first on the 3-meter.

The 100 fly and 100 free produced three extra Oakland occasion sweeps. Albrecht, Todd, Ava McNamara, and Grace Gray went 1-2-3-4 within the girls’s 100 fly, earlier than Archer Jankoviak, Martinez, and Rohacs accomplished a sweep of their very own within the males’s race. Beal, Soldatke, and Mia Englender then secured the ultimate official sweep of the day within the 100 free, whereas Nicholson and Brown posted the final 1-2 end for the Golden Grizzlies.

The 500 free, 100 breast, and 200 free relay weren’t counted towards Oakland’s ultimate rating, however the Golden Grizzlies nonetheless produced podium finishes and occasion sweeps. Pietras had the quickest time within the girls’s 500 free, with Hassett and Partridge posting the subsequent two greatest occasions to finish the unofficial sweep. On the boys’s facet, Subagyo earned one other high end, with Gelston and Joseph Countryman recording the subsequent greatest occasions within the 500 free. Charisse Hickman and Dobry had the second- and third-fastest occasions within the girls’s 100 breast, whereas Palvadre, Trevor Boodt, and Ricker produced one other sweep within the males’s 100 breast. The 200 free relay concluded the meet with a primary and third end for each the ladies and the boys.

FINAL RESULTS

Women

Oakland vs. Wayne State 147-88

Men

Oakland vs. Wayne State 143-92

UP NEXT: The Golden Grizzlies shut out the common season on the highway, going through Horizon League competitor Cleveland State on January 30, beginning at 4 PM.

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