EVANSVILLE, IND. -- Rose-Hulman Institute of
Technology relied on eight first-place finishes and 11 runner-up
marks to claim second-place honors at the University of
Evansville Invitational on Saturday.
Junior Jacob Sorensen (Enterprise, Ala.)
led the individual effort with two individual and one relay
title. Sorensen won the 200-yard butterfly in a time of
2:01.71 and added the 400-individual medley title in 4:45.34.
Sorensen combined with sophomore Nick Lee (Bryan, Texas),
sophomore
Steven Vande Lune (Kokomo) and junior Adam Effinger
(Plainfield) to win the men's 200-freestyle relay in an
impressive time of 1:29.43.
Other individual winners for the Engineers
include Lee with a time of 21.83 seconds in the 50-yard
freestyle; sophomore Katy Zawadski (Yorktown) with 156.25
points in one-meter diving; freshman Brian Yount
(Bloomington, Ill.) with a time of 5:14.17 in the
500-freestyle; freshman Jessica
Neeb (Fountaintown/New Palestine) with a 1:17.77 in the
women's 100-butterfly; and Effinger with a 53.13 effort in the
100-butterfly.
Freshman Deborah
Aleksa (Glendale, Ariz./Dear Valley) led the second-place
efforts with two runner-up finishes. Aleksa placed second
in the 200-yard freestyle in 2:10.63 and in the 400-individual
medley in 5:02.52.
Other runner-up efforts included Vande Lune in
the 200-freestyle in 1:48.83; senior Elaine
Kratz (Telford, Pa.) in the 50-freestyle in a time of 26.96;
freshman Sam Danesis
(Akron, Ohio/Revere) in one-meter diving with 129.57 points;
freshman Mark Parzych (Pearland, Texas/Central)
with 190.10 points in one-meter diving; junior Zach Tatlock
(Shelbyville) in the 400-yard individual medley in 4:45.99;
and freshman Sarah Nejfelt (Gosport/Edgewood) in the
100-yard butterfly in 1:31.62.
Relay teams earning second-place honors included
the women's 200-yard medley relay team of freshman Stephanie Hance (Noblesville),
Aleksa, Kratz and senior Heidi Rorick (Monroeville/Dwenger)
in 2:03.04; the men's 200-medley relay team of Lee, freshman
Clayton Shotwell (Arcadia/Hamilton Heights), Effinger and
Sorensen in 1:42.59; and the women's 200-yard freestyle relay
team of Katrz, Rorick, Neeb and Aleksa in 1:54.84.
Rose-Hulman takes the two next weekends off in
preparation for the Bluegrass Mountain Conference championships
at Charlotte, N.C., on Feb. 15-17.
