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NU 115, Kentucky 71 Missouri 138, NU 48 NU 121, Southern Illinois 65 Lancaster Aquatic Center Lexington, Ky. Live Results Friday Results |
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LEXINGTON, Ky. -- No. 21 Northwestern leads both Kentucky and Southern Illinois while trailing Missouri following the first session of action at a combined two-day, quad-dual meet at the Lancaster Aquatic Center.
Northwestern has a wide 121-65 lead on SIU while currently sitting ahead of its hosts 115-71. Missouri, which is receiving votes in the same CSCAA coaches poll that has NU ranked 21st, leads the Wildcats 138-48.
Missouri won the opening 200 free relay followed by Northwestern's squad of Almog Olshtein (Haifa, Israel/Haifa), Gage Kohner (Boca Raton, Fla./Boca Raton Community), Andrew Jovanovic (Chicago, Ill./Loyola Academy) and Nick Petersen (Thiensville, Wis./Homestead) in second with a 1:23.30. The Wildcats raced to the wall at the end to out-touch the Tigers' `B' relay by four one-hundredths of a second.
Missouri then began the individual events with a bang, sweeping the top four positions in the 200 IM. Freshman Alex Snarski (Libertyville, Ill./Libertyville) and Grant Halsall (Laxey, Isle of Man, GBR) were sixth and seventh overall for Northwestern behind those four Tigers and one Southern Illinois swimmer.
Junior Jordan Wilimovsky (Malibu, Calif./Malibu) picked up Northwestern's first victory of the meet with a time of 4:25.72 in the 500 free to beat the field by more than four full seconds. Sophomore Charlie Cole (Bernardsville, N.J./Bernards) was seventh overall behind an assortment of Missouri and Kentucky entries but ahead of all Southern Illinois foes.
Missouri again took the top three positions in the 100 breast followed by Northwestern senior Uula Auren (Helsinki, Finland/Mäkelänrinteen Lukio), whose time of 57.09 put him fourth overall.
Snarksi took third overall behind a pair of Tigers in the 200 back with a 1:50.07 while Jonathan Lieberman (Eden Prairie, Minn./Eden Prairie) and Halsall ended up in a dead heat with each other for seventh place at 1:52.80. Lieberman's time represented a nearly five second drop from his previous season-best in the race.
Northwestern had a bit of a stumble in the 100 free when its top-ranked swimmer in the event, Olshtein, ended up ninth overall. Jovanovic and Kohner led the Wildcats in the race with sixth- and seventh-place finishes, respectively.
Wilimovsky and Cole were NU's top placers in the 200 fly at eighth- and ninth-overall, then Northwestern's 400 medley relay of Snarski, Auren, Halsall and Jovanovic beat all Kentucky and SIU teams while finishing third overall in 3:21.26.
Diving Friday took place at 11 a.m. CT, well ahead of the swimming events. Sophomore Andrew Cramer (Indianapolis, Ind./Cathedral) finished second overall on the 1-meter board with a 299.05 and also led the Wildcats on the 3-meter board with a season-best and third-place total of 353.00. Senior John Andrade (Avon, Conn./Notre Dame) was fourth in the 3-meter and fifth in the 1-meter to grab valuable points for NU.
Day two of action at the Kentucky quad dual begins bright and early tomorrow morning with an 8 a.m. CT/9 a.m. ET start time.
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