Claremont, Calif. -The Golden Eagle swim and dive teams were eager to show off some fast times in the middle of a rugged training period in their dual meet at Pomona Pitzer on Saturday. The Sage Hens were coming off a meet at CBU the previous night and pushed CUI all day. In the end, the fresher Golden Eagle squads prevailed, 173-123 on the women's side and 159.5-133.5 on the men's.
The Golden Eagles won 20 of 32 events with the women nabbing 11 of them. A lot of season best, PCSC leading and even nationally ranked swims/dives were earned on the day.
The biggest mover was
Jackson Rosol who dropped a 4:08.4 in his 400 IM, grabbing a win by 4/10 over TWO swimmers and picking up the 16th fastest time in the nation with the effort.
On the boards, fellow freshman
Chloe Dobie improved her 6-dive scores by about 30 each as she secured victories in the 1m and 3m diving events. Her 238.55 (1m) and 246.00 (3m) are now the 2nd best scores in school history in the 6-dive events and move her closer to NCAA consideration scores.
The Golden Eagles won three of four relays opening the meet with the 200 medley relays. The women's quartet of
Aubrie Carver,
Alex Leland,
Naomi Nakaya and
Hannah Edwards ripped a 1:47.02 while the foursome of
Logan Irvine,
Jack Harris,
Jayden Hernandez, and
Legend Storer TIED Pomoma Pitzer in a fast 1:33.33. Both are now the fastest times in the PCSC conference. The final win came in the men's 400 free relay as
Joey Molettieri (46.6),
Tom McCabe (46.9), and
Lanis Webb (47.9) went stroke-for-stroke with the PP A relay before
Jacob VanRensburg (46.4) crushed his personal best time in pulling away for the win in a season best 3:07.93.
Women's victories came from the following:
Alex Leland: 50-100 breaststroke (both #1 in the PCSC)
Alice Stainer: 100-200 freestyle (#7, #5 in the PCSC)
Aubrie Carver: 50-100 backstroke (#3, #2 in the PCSC)
Morgan Warren: 1000 free (#3 in the PCSC)
Elena Argabright: 500 free (CUI PR)
Rachel Maki: 50 free (PR, #3 in the PCSC)
Notable swims included Morgan, Elena, and Faith Urquhart sweeping the 1000 free, Rachel, Alex, Hannah, and Alice sweeping the 50 free and
Noelle Landon swimming to PRs in the 50-100 back with the latter (58.95) moving to #5 in the PCSC and #7 all-time in te CUI rankings.
On the men's side,
Joey Molettieri,
Jayden Hernandez, and
Logan Irvine were the team leaders. Joey's wins in the 100-200 freestyle's were season best swims and moves him to #3 and #4 respectively in the PCSC rankings. Jayden already owns the top 50-100 fly times in the conference and was victorious in both as he and Logan went 1-2 in each. Jayden's 49.57 is now 24th nationally in NCAA D2. Logan's leadoff on the 200 medley (23.95) is the fastest time in the PCSC. The final win on the day came from
Mitchell Cullen who put up the 5th fastest time in the PCSC in the 1000 freestyle.
Breaststroke and IM depth was on display for the Golden Eagles as
Jack Harris,
Andrew Manzo,
Garrison Veron and
Legend Storer dropped the 1-3-5-8 fastest times in the PCSC in the 50 breast and Jack,
Hunter May and Legend are now 2-3-6 in the 100 breast. In the 400 IM, Jackson, Hunter and
Trai Xiong have three of the top-6 efforts in the conference.
From Coach Bergen-
We challenged the team to get up and race this meet. We pointed to this one for its timing relative to our midseason meet next month and wanted to use it as a pressure-free measuring stick to see if we could get up and perform. We exceeded expectations in some areas and saw gaps that we are continuing to work on in others. All in all, this was what we'd hoped for and can use this result as a guide for the next three weeks. We're grateful that Pomona Pitzer welcomed us and battled the way they did. They're a good team who will be really good when we see them again next month.
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