O'FALLON, Ill. - No. 9 Men's swim had a great home opening weekend with two wins against Eastern Illinois on Friday by a score of 165-91 and Saint Louis on Saturday with a score of 175-87 at the McKendree Metro Rec Plex.
On Friday, McKendree took first and second in the 200-yard medley relay with the group of Gabe Jones, Braynsly Dirksz, Daniel De Oliveria and Omar Fathy taking first with a time of 1:31.90. David Hammond, Mariano Gomez, Jamesyn Samples and Grant Sandstedt were closely behind them with a time of 1:34.17.
Miguel Carvalhosa won both the 1650 and 500-yard freestyle with times of 15.43.05 and 4:35.24. Illia Demchyk and Paxton Horn earned the top two spots in the 200-yard freestyle with times of 1:41.84 and 1:43.65. Hammond swam 51.81 and 1:56.24 in the 100 and 200-yard backstroke to win both events.
Dirksz won the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 57.22 with Gomez behind him in third with a 58.36 in the event. Jones, Carson Olson, and Samples swept the podium in the 200-yard butterfly with times of 1:50.41, 1:53.61 and 1:58.13 respectively. Fathy won back-to-back events in the 50 and 100-yard freestyle swimming 20.69 and 45.80 in the events.
Phin Theall, Samples and Nathan Pollard got the sweep in the 100-yard butterfly with times of 49.73, 50.75 and 52.04.
On Saturday, Jones, Dirksz, De Oliveira and Theall started off hot with a win in the 400-yard medley relay with a time of 3:16.90.
Jakub Rynkiewicz and Michael Stooke got the top two spots in the 200-yard freestyle with times of 1:38.74 and 1:40.69 respectively. Olson swam 49.70 in the 100-yard backstroke to get the win for McKendree. Samples had 1:49.54 in the 200-yard butterfly marking his first individual win of the year. Carvalhosa, Rynkiewicz, Stooke and Noah Brereton had the top four spots in the 500-yard freestyle with times of 4:25.82, 4:26.81, 4:35.29 and 4:36.75 respectively.
McKendree will be traveling to Columbia, Missouri for a midseason meet at the University of Missouri from November 17th through the 20th. All events will be held at the Mizzou Aquatic Center.
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