COMPLETE RESULTS
BLOOMINGTON, ILL. -- Rose-Hulman Institute of
Technology combined for 19 first-place performances as the men's
team defeated Illinois Wesleyan and the women's squad fell to the
host Titans on Saturday.
The Fightin' Engineers relied on 14 first-place efforts to earn a 222-50 dual meet victory over Illinois Wesleyan. The women's squad added five first place efforts, but Illinois Wesleyan claimed a 159-103 margin.
Freshmen Sam Gould (Greencastle/South Putnam) (pictured) and Orion Martin (Dublin, Ohio/Coffman) led the men's squad with two wins each. Gould swept one-meter and three-meter diving with 214.40 and 223.15 points. Martin won the 50-freestyle in 22.26 and added a 100-butterfly win in 50.63.
The freestyle events helped Rose-Hulman earn the men's victory. Freestyle winners included junior Andrew Podgorski (Goshen) in the 100 (49.68), freshman Brady Stern (Waverly, Iowa) in the 200 (1:50.86), freshman Matthew King (Libertyville, Ill.) in the 500 (5:00.00) and freshman Mitchell Lippy (Crown Point) in the 1,000 (11:00.30).
Other individual winners included senior Matt Ross (West Lafayette/Harrison) in the 200-butterfly (1:59.43); junior Logan Ryan (Kent, Wash./Kentwood Senior) in the 200-breaststroke (2:21.01); sophomore Marshall Yeoman (Elkhart/Memorial) in the 100-breaststroke (1:03.40); and sophomore Eric Yuhas (Fremont, Ohio/Ross) in the 100-backstroke (1:01.79).
The 200-medley relay team of Yuhas, Podgorski, senior John Huster (Terre Haute/North) and freshman Paul Hintz (Pickerington, Ohio) won in 1:41.33, before Huster, Podgorski, Hintz and Martin capped the meet with a 200-freestyle relay win in 1:29.77.
On the women's side, freshman Regen Foote (Jasper) led the way with a sweep of one-meter and three-meter diving points. Foote scored 202.55 and 204.60 points in the two events.
Other women's individual winners included freshman Taylor Harris (Batavia, Ill./Rosary) in the 100-breaststroke (1:15.91) and sophomore Laura Danhauer (Barrington, Ill.) in the 100-breaststroke (1:15.91).
The 200-freestyle relay team of sophomore Celeste Kline (Terre Haute/North), freshman Chelsea Rossick (Middletown, Md.), sophomore Ashley Schumacher (St. Louis, Mo./Lutheran South) and freshman Stephanie Wolfersberger (Whiteland) also earned top honors with a time of 1:47.45.
Rose-Hulman returns to action at Franklin College on Friday night.