Miami University
Wright State
RedHawks Emerge from Wright State with Two Victories
10/8/2016 12:00:00 AM | Swimming and Diving
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DAYTON, Ohio - Miami's first meet as a combined swimming and diving program was a successful one as both the men and women topped Wright State in a dual competition on Saturday afternoon.
The RedHawk women blew past the Raiders with a 190-51 victory while the men edged past WSU with a 131-110 win. Miami's women racked up 12 event wins while the men placed first in seven events.
Among the victorious women were Pei Lin, who claimed both the one-meter (331.90) and three-meter (293.70) dives to amass 18 points for the Red and White. Taylor LeCount and Jenna Karrow each placed third and fourth for Miami with one-meter scores of 233.78 and 227.85 and three-meter scores of 238.98 and 219.22, respectively.
Back in the pool, Elise Campbell emerged with an individual victory in the 100-yard freestyle, where she won by nearly a second and a half (52.98). She also helped lead two victorious relay groups, teaming with Izzy Herb, Stephanie LeMire and Morgan Quesnel to claim the 200-yard medley relay (1:47.54) and matching with Abby Stone, Ella Moynihan and Grace Van Fossen to win the 200-yard freestyle relay (1:39.02).
Other victorious RedHawk women in the short events included Lemire in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:06.86), Quesnel in the 100-yard butterfly (57.87), Herb in the 100-yard backstroke (56.88) where she won by almost three seconds, Moynihan with a similarly impressive win in the 200-yard freestyle (1:53.72) while also taking home the 500-yard freestyle (5:06.38) and Emma Bradley in the 1000-yard freestyle in 10:33.19. Also, Holly Schuster took home the 400-yard individual medley by about five seconds with her 4:32.95.
On the men's side, Sean Sargent scored a 325.90 to claim the one-meter dive while his 304.05 in the three-meter dive was six-tenths of a point off WSU's Mitchell Godar's winning dive.
In the pool, Nicholas Wukovits posted individual wins in the 100-yard backstroke (58.28) and the 400-yard individual medley (4:08.68). Another two-event winner was Lucas Brock, who took gold in the 100-yard freestyle (47.15) while teaming up with Nick Ward, Ross Westrick and Jack Strauss in the winning 200-yard freestyle relay (1:25.78). James Wray won the 100-yard backstroke in 52.10 while Justin Andrews (9:57.08) narrowly edged teammate Jake Precious (9:57.45) in the 1000-yard freestyle.
The RedHawks swim next on Oct. 21, when they head to Purdue.
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