Men's swim team earns one
win, two losses
The 19th-ranked Purdue men's swim team fell Saturday
in a double-dual meet against the No. 9 Michigan Wolverines and the
No. 23 Penn State Nittany Lions.
Michigan (3-4) beat the Boilermakers (6-2, 2-2
Big Ten) 183-60 while Penn State (3-1) won 171-72.
"(Saturday) was a rough day for us," Purdue coach
Dan Ross said. "This weekend was a battle for us and although we didn't
have a great team showing, we did have some outstanding individual performances.
This next week will give us plenty of time to rebound and come back
to be ready to go for the next three weeks of hard, Big Ten competition."
The outstanding individual performances included
senior Matt Martin's season-best time 9:12.84 in the 100 free, freshman
Tamas Bessenyei's second-place finish in the 200 breaststroke with a
time of 2:00.89, and the 400 medley relay team's time of 3:21.01 and
second-place finish. Team members included senior Juan Rodela, Bessenyei,
sophomore Tad Sayce and senior Jon Duncan.
In the one-meter diving competition, freshman John
Haglund finished sixth with 225.85 points and junior Kevin Young finished
eighth with 213.35 points.
Purdue 172, Michigan State 128
The Boilers picked up a 172-128 victory Friday
evening at Michigan State. The Spartans fall to 2-3 (0-2 Big Ten).
"We feel pretty good after this meet," Ross said.
"This wasn't a difficult win for us, but we're glad to get another win
on our record."
The Boilermakers did not win an event until the
fifth, the 100 breaststroke. Bessenyei came through in 55.76 to put
Purdue back in the meet.
The 50 freestyle gave Purdue its first 1-2 finish
of the night with senior Dave Weis finishing in 21.27 and Duncan finishing
in 21.67.
Duncan turned around and came right back to grab
a first-place finish in the 100 free with a time of 46.47.
Rodela was Purdue's top finisher in the 200 backstroke
with a time of 1:52.11. Classmate Ian Caswell and freshman Will Seelbach
finished third and fourth place finishes. Their times were 1:55.37 and
1:55.81, respectively.
In the 200 breast, Bessenyei took his second first-place
finish of the meet in 2:02.14 and Diaz took second in 2:10.54.
Martin finished first in the 500 free in 4:33.10.
With a time of 50.71, senior Matt Garrison finished
first in the 100 butterfly while junior teammate Donovan Crowley finished
third in 51.87.
Diaz collected his second first-place finish of
the night in 4:04.50 in the 400 individual medley. Junior Tom Drejer,
with a time of 4:09.01, and Cenci, with a time of 4:13.43, helped Purdue
to its only 1-2-3 finish of the night.
In the final event of the evening, the Boilermaker
400 free relay team of Duncan, freshman Kyle Jackson, Rodela and Wright
finished second in 3:06.83.
Due to a timing system error, the events of 400
medley relay and 100 backstroke were thrown out of the meet results.
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