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No. 21 #B1GCats Finish 2-1 at Kentucky Quad Dual
11/8/2014 12:00:00 AM | Men's Swimming and Diving
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NU 208, Kentucky 145 NU 249, Southern Illinois 104 Missouri 221, NU 127 Lancaster Aquatic Center • Lexington, Ky. Final Results |
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LEXINGTON, Ky. -- No. 21 Northwestern concluded the two-day Kentucky Quad Dual meet at the Lancaster Aquatic Center Saturday morning with a 2-1 record.
Missouri, receiving votes in the same CSCAA poll that has NU ranked, swept the quad dual and defeated the Wildcats, 221-127. Northwestern came out on top of Southern Illinois, 249-104, and host Kentucky, 208-145, by wide margins.
Following a short overnight 'Cat nap between Friday's evening session and Saturday morning's early first whistle, Northwestern touched first in the 200 medley relay. NU's team of Alex Snarski (Libertyville, Ill./Libertyville), Uula Auren (Helsinki, Finland/Mäkelänrinteen Lukio), Andy Jovanovic (Chicago, Ill./Loyola Academy) and Almog Olshtein (Haifa, Israel/Haifa) finished in 1:30.86 to defeat a pair of Missouri squads.
Jordan Wilimovsky (Malibu, Calif./Malibu) won the 1,000 free at cruising altitude, coming home in 9:12.02 to finish ahead of the second-place swimmer by 9.19 seconds. Olshtein then ended up second overall between two Missouri swimmers in the 50 free with a 20.65 effort.
In the 100 back, NU freshman Snarski engaged with Missouri's Carter Griffin, who qualified for the NCAA Championships in the backstroke a year ago. Griffin won this battle to the way by just two one-hundredths of a second, out-touching Snarski 49.95 to 49.97.
In the 200 breast, Van Donkersgoed (Eden Prairie, Minn./Minnehaha Academy) was part of a trio of swimmers in second through fourth places separated by just .23 of a second. Donkersgoed was second among that group and third overall with a 2:06.58. Jovanovic then was third as well for Northwestern in the 100 fly with a 50.49.
In the 200 free, Charlie Cole (Bernardsville, N.J./Bernards) cut a 1.5 seconds from his season-best in the event to touch in a second-place time of 1:39.84, four one-hundredths of a second ahead of Southern Illinois' top swimmer.
Wilimovsky staged a huge battle for first in the 400 IM with Kentucky's Brandon Flynn and in the end got the best of the SEC Wildcat for his third victory in the meet, this one coming with a five one-hundredths of a second margin in 4:00.75. Donkersgoed came in fourth overall in 4:09.20 during the first swimming of the event this season.
NU made it a sweep of the Saturday relays in the final event of the meet, touching first by nearly a full second in the 400 free relay with a time of 3:05.52 achieved by Olshtein, Jovanovic, Gage Kohner (Boca Raton, Fla./Boca Raton Community) and Nick Petersen (Thiensville, Wis./Homestead).
Northwestern returns to action in a combined Big Ten dual meet at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, at Wisconsin.
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