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Men's Swimming & Diving Wins the Carthage Invitational

12/3/2021 9:16:00 PM

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THURSDAY RESULTS

FRIDAY RESULTS

SATURDAY MORNING HEAT SHEET 


KENOSHA, Wis. -- The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology men's swimming and diving team won the three-day Carthage Invitational, held in Wisconsin.

Rose-Hulman scored 2632 points to defeat second-place Carthage (2099), Lake Forest (1542), Saint Norbert and Kalamazoo in the 10-team event.

THURSDAY RECAP

Rose-Hulman captured first and third places in the 800-yard freestyle relay to bolster the team score.  Logan McLaughlin, Caleb Munger, Vineet Ranade and Jared Brown won the event in a time of 6:51.26.  The team of Nick Edwards, Sam West, Antonio Ventresca and Ryan Bowering placed 3rd in 7:01.44.

Evan Sellers added first-place honors in the 1650-freestyle with a time of 16:26.36 to help Rose-Hulman sweep first-place honors in the evening's two events.

FRIDAY RECAP

The Rose-Hulman men won four events and set one school record to highlight Friday action at Carthage.

Vineet Ranade set a new school record in the 200-individual medley to lead the individual performances.  Ranade completed the preliminary round in the event with a new record time of 1:52.33.

Ranade also won the 200-breaststroke with a time of 2:05.02 to capture one of four first-place finishes for the Engineers.

Other event winners included Jared Brown in the 100-freestyle (46.09); Ryan Nikolic in the 100-butterfly (49.90); and Evan Sellers in the 500-freestyle (4:41.58).

The 200-freestyle and 400-medley relay primary teams added second-place finishes for Rose-Hulman.  Justin Roberts, Ranade, Noah Lockhart and Tyler Sommer finished the 400-medley relay in 3:27.38, while Logan McLaughlin, Nikolic, Sommer and Brown finished the 200-freestyle relay in 1:24.08.

Other second-place finishers included Ryan Bowering in the 200-backstroke (1:54.74) and John Dinkel in 3-meter diving (360.35 points).

The 200-freestyle B relay team of Alex Ketcham, Sam West, Nick Edwards and Antonio Ventresca placed third in 1:26.33.

Caleb Munger contributed two fourth-place finishes wth times of 1:56.12 in the 200-backstroke and 4:49.43 in the 500-freestyle.

Fifth-place finishers included Bowering in the 500-freestyle; Brown in the 100-butterfly; Edwards in the 200-individual medley; Ketcham in the 200-breaststroke; and Nikolic in the 100-freestyle.

SATURDAY RECAP

Saturday's events were highlighted by several near-record winning races. 

The 200-medley relay team finished in first place with a time of 1:32.67.  Members of the relay team included Ryan Nikolic, Vineet Ranade, Jared Brown, and Tyler Sommer. The team was six-tenths off the school record, set in 2021, of 1:32.07.

Ranade was victorious in the 200-free in a time of 1:42.81, which was three seconds away from beating the school record.

Several second and third place finishes on day three propelled the Fightin' Engineers in their win.  The 400-free relay team finished in second with a time of 3:05.87, just under two seconds of breaking the school record of 3:03.99 set in 2013.

Brown placed second in the 50-free with a time of 20.87.  The school record is 20.50, just under three-tenths away from Brown's time.

Bowering added another second-place finish in the 400-IM with a time of 4:09.72.  Similar to his teammates, Bowering was two seconds away from the school record (4:07.60).

In diving, John Dinkel placed second in the 1-meter diving with a score of 366.83.

Logan McLaughlin and Nikolic finished third and fourth, respectively, in the 100-backstroke.  McLaughlin finished with a time of 52.07 and Nikolic with a 52.35.  Both swimmers are within two seconds of breaking the school record of 50.53, set in 2018.

Ranade placed third in the 100-breaststroke in a time of 58.95.  The school record is 56.20 set in 2003.
 
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