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Nick Lee and the Engineers captured
top honors at the Rose-Hulman Relays. |
TERRE HAUTE, IND. -- The Fightin' Engineers
turned four relay victories into a men's team title at the
Rose-Hulman Swimming Relays on Saturday.
Rose-Hulman's women recorded one victory and four second-place
finishes to place second in the event.
The 200-yard freestyle relay team of sophomore Brian Yount
(Bloomington, Ill.), senior John Whitten (Akron,
Ohio/Walsh Jesuit), junior Nick Lee (Bryan, Texas)
and junior Steven Vande Lune (Kokomo) earned the first
victory of the day in a time of 1:32.59.
The next winner was the 400-yard butterfly crescendo relay of
freshman Andrew Ulrey (North Oaks, Minn.), freshman
Michael Ulrey (North Oaks, Minn.), senior Adam Effinger
(Plainfield) and senior Jacob Sorensen (Enterprise, Ala.)
in a time of 1:31.86.
The third victorious relay team for Rose-Hulman was the
100-freestyle relay squad of junior Ben Butz (Beloit,
Wis./Memorial), sophomore Jacob Sikora (Kalamazoo,
Mich./Otsego), sophomore Chris Routh (Muncie/Yorktown)
and Whitten in a time of 44.64 seconds.
The 400-freestyle relay team of Sorensen, Effinger, Lee and
Vande Lune wrapped up the men's winners with a time of 3:21.99.
On the women's side, the 400-backstroke crescendo relay teams of
sophomore Deb Aleksa (Glendale, Ariz./Dear Valley),
sophomore Sarah Nejfelt (Gosport/Edgewood), freshman
Heather Weist (Arlington Heights, Ill./Buffalo Grove) and
sophomore Stephanie Hance (Noblesville) claimed top
honors with a time of 4:41.60.
Rose-Hulman returns to action at the Wabash
College Tri-Meet including Illinois Wesleyan University next
Saturday in Crawfordsville.