Salisbury, N.C. —- The 25th-ranked Catawba College men's swimming team topped Barton in its final home dual of the season, while honoring its two seniors on Senior Day.
HOW IT HAPPENED
400 Yard Medley Relay
- Catawba kicked off the day with a win in the 400 Medley Relay from the relay team of Alejandro Alvarez, Maks Minichowski, Lassi Niemi and Juan Diego Celis, setting a school record in the progress
1000 Yard Freestyle
- Senior Elias Hysing earned a win on Senior Day in the 1000 Free with a time of 10:02.60
200 Yard Freestyle
- Freshman Nazar Herashchenko finished six seconds clear of the rest of the field in the 200 Free with a time of 1:40.20
100 Yard Backstroke
- Freshman Evan Stroud impressed with a win in an all-Catawba 1-2-3 in the 100 Back with a mark of 51.86
100 Yard Breaststroke
- Rowan Viles edged out teammate Case in the 100 Breast, with his 56.46 time finishing less than two-tenths of a second in time
200 Yard Butterfly
- Cameron Watson finished first in an all-Catawba, two-man race in the 200 Fly, posting a 1:55.64
50 Yard Freestyle
- Minichowski earned a win in in the 50 Free with a time of 20.44
100 Yard Freestyle
- Case got his individual win in the 100 Free, posting a 46.00 time
200 Yard Backstroke
- Stroud made it a clean sweep in the Backstroke events, earning a victory in the 200 Back with a 1:55.48, more than 10 seconds clear of the closest Barton swimmers
200 Yard Breaststroke
- Viles followed Stroud with a sweep of the Breaststroke events with a mark of 2:05.51
500 Yard Freestyle
- Herashchenko joined the multiple-event winners with a win in the 500 Free with a 4:40.37
100 Yard Butterfly
- Balaszs Meszaros came out on top of a tight race in the 100 Fly with a mark of 50.30
400 Yard IM
- Joao Oliveira joined the group of individual event winners with a 4:05.29 effort in the 400 IM
200 Yard Freestyle
- Catawba's men's relay of Celis, Case, Ivo Cruz and Isaac Haut made it a clean Catawba sweep on the afternoon with a time of 1:23.66
UP NEXT
- Catawba jumps back in the pool at the Queens Fall Frenzy later this month; the four-day event starts on Thursday, Nov. 21
