Swim teams fall at Wayne State
November 22, 2013
The men’s and women’s swim teams traveled to Wayne State on Saturday, falling to the Warriors to drop their respective records to 1-4.
The score of the men’s meet was 174-111 in favor of Wayne State, while the women lost 165-117.
The Eagles did have a number of standout performances against Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference perennial power Warriors.
The men started things off positively with a victory in the 400-yard medley relay, where the team of Sergio Sanchis Peris, Greg Walters, Philipp Sikatzki and Alex Sheil touched the wall first in 3:30.27.
Ashland also took the win in the next race, with Lukas Jachno’s time of 10:10.59 beating everyone else in the 1,000-yard freestyle by almost six seconds.
Sikatzki (50.19) won the 100-yard backstroke and the 100-yard butterfly (49.82), Cody Roller (2:03.12) won the 200-yard individual medley and the 400-yard freestyle relay team of Sikatzki, Sheil, Sanchis Peris and Andrew Carlson won the final event of the day in 3:12.12.
Sheil (1:45.31) was second in the 200-yard freestyle, Walters (1:01.70) was second in the 100-yard breaststroke and the 200-yard breaststroke (2:17.00), Jacob Miller (21.90) was second in the 50-yard freestyle, Carlson (48.82) was second in the 100-yard freestyle and Kyle Hronek was second in the 200-yard individual medley.
For the women, the 400-yard freestyle relay team of Kaylyn Murphy, Gabby Verdugo-Arzaluz, Anna Evans and Laurin McClure took first in 3:41.35 and the 400-yard medley relay squad of Megan Schultz, Beth Long, Verdugo-Arzaluz and Murphy was second in 4:02.06.
Individually, Murphy won the 200-yard freestyle (1:54.86) and the 100-yard freestyle (56.63). Mattar was first in the 200-yard individual medley (2:11.85) and the 100-yard breaststroke (2:23.34), and Schultz was won the 200-yard backstroke (2:07.19).
Second-place finishers were Mattar (11:05.56) in the 1,000-yard freestyle, Long (1:09.24) in the 100-yard breaststroke, Paige Martin (2:15.75) in the 200-yard butterfly, Verdugo-Arzaluz (25.07) in the 50-yard freestyle, McClure (1:01.05) in the 100-yard butterfly and Brittany Finlay (2:15.98) in the 200-yard individual medley.
Ashland’s next meet is the Cleveland State Invitational on Nov. 22, 23 and 24.