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TYR Invitational
Northwestern Remains Second at Home TYR Invitational
11/22/2014 12:00:00 AM | Men's Swimming and Diving
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2014 TYR Invitational Norris Aquatics Center • Evanston, Ill. • NU's Place: 2nd/5 Day Two Results |
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EVANSTON, Ill. -- Northwestern remains in second place Saturday following the second day of action at its home three-day TYR Invitational at the Norris Aquatics Center.
Michigan State is in the lead in its fall-season-ending event while Northwestern is in second place after more solid showings heading into its 11-swimmer trip to the U.S. Nationals in two weeks. Saint Louis is in third overall, UIC in fourth and Truman State is fifth.
The third and final day of the 2014 TYR Invitational begins with a 9 a.m. preliminary session tomorrow, Sunday, Nov. 23, with finals moved up two hours to 3 p.m. CT.
Saturday's Preliminary Session
Northwestern only entered two swimmers into the first event on Saturday's program, the 400 IM, and both made scoring finals. Junior Jordan Wilimovsky (Malibu, Calif./Malibu) led the way for the Wildcats with a first-place overall 3:57.90 and will be the top seed in the championship final Saturday night. Senior Andrew Seitz (Pleasanton, Calif./Amador Valley) qualified 13th overall and will swim in the consolation heat following a morning 4:09.52.
Northwestern made up for its lack of swimmers in the 400 IM by sending eight swimmers through to the scoring finals in the 100 fly. Andy Jovanovic (Chicago, Ill./Loyola Academy) qualified second overall with a season-best 48.61 followed by Almog Olshtein (Haifa, Israel/Haifa) in fourth, Alex Snarski (Libertyville, Ill./Libertyville) in fifth and Mark Ferguson (Perth, Australia/John XXIII) in sixth.
Three Wildcats claimed the top three spots in the 100 fly `B' final. Grant Halsall (Laxey, Isle of Man, GBR) paced that group with a ninth-place overall time of 50.14. Nick Petersen (Thiensville, Wis./Homestead) was 10th in 50.45 and Uula Auren (Helsinki, Finland/Mäkelänrinteen Lukio) was 11th in 50.46. Jack Morris (Lansdale, Pa./North Penn) also grabbed the last scoring lane available with the 16th overall time of 51.02.
Joao Steiner (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil/The Bolles School) will swim in the `C' final of the 100 fly after a 20th-place morning qualification while William Rosler (Bexley, Ohio/Columbus Academy) and Gage Kohner (Boca Raton, Fla./Boca Raton Community) both finished the morning as 100 fly alternates.
Charlie Cole (Bernardsville, N.J./Bernardsville), Jonathan Lieberman (Eden Prairie, Minn./Minnehaha Academy) and Wilimovsky advanced through to the 200 freestyle championship final with Cole coming on strong for a second-place 1:40.45 in his signature event. Lieberman took fifth and Wilimovsky snuck into the title tilt by one-hundredth of a second to place eighth.
Morris also took a scoring lane for the Wildcats with a 13th-place 1:42.53 to make the consolation final while Kohner finished 23rd for a bonus final spot.
In the 100 breast, Auren grabbed a season-best time of 56.58 to finish just behind a Michigan State `B' cut by .32 of a second, setting the stage for a nice battle Saturday night in the championship final. He is the lone NU entry to make that heat while three Wildcats will swim in the consolation final: Olshtein (12th), Van Donkersgoed (Eden Prairie, Minn./Minnehaha Academy) (13th) and Aaron Sears (Neenah, Minn./Neenah) (15th). Rosler also earned a 100 breast second swim with a 21st place qualification to make the bonus final.
Four Wildcats made the 100 back championship final and they did it in style with three Wildcats sweeping the top spots in qualification as the lone swimmers to break 50.00. Jovanovic qualified first overall in 49.02 followed by Snarski in second with a 49.68 and Ferguson in third in 49.79. Halsall also made it through to the `A' heat with a seventh-place 50.77.
Petersen was close to almost making it himself, but settled for the top seed in the consolation final after a morning 51.21. Lierberman joined him in the 100 back `B' heat with a 14th-place 52.01. Seitz and Jonathan Blansfield (Westport, Conn./Staples) made the bonus final of the event.
One day after winning the 1-meter springboard, Andrew Cramer (Indianapolis, Ind./Cathedral) qualified first overall for the 3-meter championship round with a whopping 44.60-point margin over second place. His score of 340.90 was just 6.10 points off his season-best.
Reed Dillon (Indianapolis, Ind./Lawrence Central) came through to the evening final in third place with a 289.85 while reigning Big Ten Diver of the Week John Andrade (Avon, Conn./Notre Dame) was fourth in 286.55.
Saturday's Finals Session
Northwestern's 200 medley relay won the opening event of the finals session in a thrashing display of speed. Ferguson gave NU a three-tenths of a second lead in the opening leg before Auren maintained it. Michigan State was able to pull within five one-hundredths of a second against Jovanovic in the butterfly, but Olshtein went a 19.56 anchor split to pull away and touch in 1:28.69 for the NU win.
Northwestern's two entries into the 400 IM did well for the Wildcats Saturday night. Wilimovsky won the championship final by a comfortable margin in 3:53.82 while Seitz moved from 13th after the prelims up to 11th in the finals with a 4:06.81, dropping more than two seconds in time.
Jovanovic finished second overall in the 100 fly to lead NU with a 48.52 while Olshtein took fourth overall, Snarski sixth and Ferguson seventh. In the consolation final, Halsall out-touched teammate Petersen at the wall by .17 of a second to win in 49.64 against Petersen's 49.81. Morris dropped nice time for a 50.33 12th-place swim while Auren was 16th overall for one NU point.
In the 100 fly bonus final, Steiner cut six tenths of a second from his preliminary swim to end up in an 18th-place dead heat in 51.28. Rosler was 21st overall in 51.80.
Cole nearly notched an NCAA `B' time in the 200 free finals, placing second overall in 1:38.01, a time that was just two one-hundredths of a second shy of the mark. Wilimovsky swam a nice race out of lane 8, ending up fourth place overall with a time of 1:41.54. Lieberman grabbed seventh-place points for the Wildcats.
One event after a super swim in the 100 fly, Morris faded a bit in the consolation final of the 200 free, touching in a 16th-place time of 1:44.94. In the bonus final, Kohner cut nearly two full seconds from his prelim time to finish second in the heat and 18th overall in 1:42.98.
Auren took third as the lone NU swimmer in the 100 breast `A' final, then Olshtein won his consolation final in the event with a 56.79 that was 1.08 faster than his morning swim. Donkersgoed dead-heated for 11th in the event with a 57.61 and Sears grabbed a pair of points in 15th position. In the bonus final, Rosler also had a dead heat with a 59.35.
Jovanovic qualified first overall for the 100 back and he stood in the same spot after the finals, swimming a 49.06 to win by seven tenths of a second. Ferguson swam a 49.84 for third, Snarski turned in a 49.99 for fourth, Halsall touched in 50.39 for fifth and Petersen had a 51.20 for seventh.
In the consolation final, Lieberman picked up a trio of points with a 14th place finish after Seitz (19th) and Blansfield (21st) completed the bonus final.
In the 3-meter diving final, Cramer bested his previous season-best in the event with a 348.60 to win by an incredible 48.8-point margin over his teammate Andrade, who moved up from fourth to place second with a 299.80. Dillon ended up fifth overall with a score of 266.55.
In the final 800 free relay, NU's team of Jovanovic, Cole, Lieberman and Wilimovsky closed out a victory in 6:38.51, taking the lead early and maintaining it throughout.
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