Adam Effinger won the 100-butterfly and came home third in the 200-fly at the Wabash Invitational.

CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND. – Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology recorded one event victory and 14 top 10 finishes at one of the Midwest's top early season NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Meets, the Wabash Invitational, on Friday and Saturday.

Junior Adam Effinger (Plainfield) led the way with a victory in the 100-butterfly with a time of 51.43 seconds.  The effort was a pool record, an event record and missed the NCAA provisional qualification time by just .04 seconds.  He added a third place in the 200-butterfly with a time of 2:02.92.

The 800-yard freestyle relay team opened the event with a second-place finish with the third fastest time in school history.  Sophomore Steven Vande Lune (Kokomo), junior Jacob Sorensen (Enterprise, Ala.), Effinger and sophomore Nick Lee (Bryan, Texas) finished in a time of 7:11.51 for 34 event points.

Freshman Deb Aleksa (Glendale, Ariz./Dear Valley) paced the women's effort with the second fastest time in school history in the 1,650-freestyle to seventh in a time of 19:10.37.  Aleksa also tallied a school record in the 400-individual medley with a time of 5:02.86.

Freshman Stephanie Hance (Noblesville) added the second best time in school history in the 200-backstroke with a time of 2:21.81 for seventh place.  She also finished ninth in the 100-backstroke in 1:04.12.

Other top 10 individual performances included Sorensen with an eighth in the 400-individual medley (4:27.74) and ninth in the 200-butterfly (2:05.65); Lee in the 200-freestyle with a time of 1:50.47; and Vande Lune in the 500-freestyle in a time of 5:08.28.

The diving team added four top 10 finishes to round out the effort.  Sophomore Matthew Melton (Griffith) placed fourth in three-meter diving with 160.75 points.  Freshman Mark Parzych (Portland, Texas/Central) added a fifth in the one-meter event (161.90) with Melton sixth at 143.05 points.

Freshman Sam Danesis (Akron, Ohio/Revere) led the women's divers with a ninth place in one-meter with 131.50 points.

Rose-Hulman returns to action at the DePauw University Swimming and Wabash College Diving Invitationals on Dec. 1-2.

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