Julie Pinter
BEREA, OHIO -- The Baldwin-Wallace College men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams were swept by Allegheny (Pa.) College in a dual meet this evening (Friday, January 29, 2010) in the B-W Natatorium in the Lou Higgins Center in Berea. The College honored four senior men who competed in their final home events as Yellow Jackets.
The Yellow Jacket men lost, 150.5-92.5, and the women lost, 173-49. The B-W men fall to 3-10 overall and the women are 0-13 overall. The Jackets are back in action tomorrow when they compete at Ohio Athletic Conference and Cleveland cross town rival John Carroll University at 1:00 p.m. at the DeCarlo Center in University Heights. This is the final dual meet of the 2010 season.
The four Yellow Jacket seniors honored were Mark Andrasek (Parma/ Normandy), Anthony Grad (Huron), Vince Colwell (Parma/ Normandy) and Jordan Irwin (Westerville/ Westerville South).
For the men, junior four-time All-American diver Todd Richert (North Royalton) placed first in both the one-meter optional dive and in the one-meter voluntary dive scoring totals of 199.45 and 333.50 points, respectively. Junior Hector Diaz (El Paso, Texas/ Cathedral) placed first in the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 2:04.45. Sophomore Nic Null (Shelby/ Mansfield St. Peter’s) also finished first in the 50-yard freestyle at 22.97 seconds.
The 400-yard freestyle relay team of Null, junior Matt Diamond (Ashtabula/ Lakeside), Andrasek and junior Ryan Musille (Canton/ GlenOak) placed first with a time of 3:23.17.
For the women, freshman Julie Pinter(Broadview Heights/ Brecksville Broadview Hts.) placed first in both the optional and voluntary one-meter dives with final scores of 174.80 and 251.60 points, respectivley. Also placing in the optional and voluntary one-meter dives was Erin O’Donnell (Perry), who ranked second with final scores of 167.95 and 222.80 points, respectively.
Following the meet at JCU, the B-W swimmers and divers are idle until they compete at the 2010 OAC Championship Meet at the University of Akron from February 18-20, The preliminary events begin eacxh day at 11:00 a.m. and the finals for those events are contested each eveining at 6:00 p.m.,
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