The Cal Golden Bears cruised to victory on a cold, rainy Thursday night road dual with California State University – Bakersfield, getting a pair of wins from Adam Hinshaw and Will Hamilton.
The junior duo combined to capture some of the lengthier events in a meet where Cal swept all 14 event wins for a 140-108 victory.
Hinshaw dominated his two individual swims, going 1:52.32 to win the 200 fly by about five seconds and taking the 500 free by several seconds, going 4:30.98.
Hamilton first had to touch out teammate Jeremy Bagshaw to win the 200 free 1:39.82 to 1:39.91. He then returned to run away with the 200 IM, topping new teammate Chuck Katis by a second. Hamilton was 1:49.23, the fastest time of the field, although Cal was exhibitioning all of its swimmers by that point.
The Bears swam a lot of off-events and seemed to limit most athletes to just two swims for the meet, presumably keeping their top swimmers fresh for Friday’s road battle with USC. No doubt the Cal men are aware of what happened to their female counterparts at Southern Cal’s Uytengsu Swim Center a week ago, and don’t wish to repeat the feat in their own dual.
Josh Prenot swam and won the 200 backstroke (1:48.99) while also manning the butterfly leg of the 200 medley relay. New breaststroke addition Katis swam backstroke on the B medley relay and took second in the 200 IM.
Freshman Long Gutierrez won the 1000 free in 9:22.66 and also took second to Hinshaw in that 200 fly. Junior Henry Chung and senior Ryan Studebaker handled the two opening legs of the 200 medley relay before winning the 100s of those respective strokes later in the meet. Chung was 51.52 in the back and Studebaker 57.37 in the breast.
Seth Stubblefield had to touch out teammate Tony Cox for the 50 free win, going 20.91. The 100 was another tight race, with Trent Williams topping Jacob Pebley.
CSUB got a couple of runner-up finishes from Jordan Singleton and Mitchell Huxhold. Singleton was 2nd in the 100 back, just behind Cal’s Chung, and added a 3rd place finish in the 200 back. Huxhold was 2nd to Hinshaw in the 500 and third in the 200 free.
Other winners for Cal were Ryan Murphy in the 100 fly (48.74) and Hunter Cobleigh in the 200 breast (2:04.76).
This was the final dual meet for CSUB, as the Roadrunners will now prepare for the WAC Championships in a few weeks. Cal will take on USC Friday and Stanford next week before Pac-12s.
See you tomorrow vs Stanford? If so I will look for burnt orange in a sea of blue gold and cardinal red
Nope, but I will be at a college swim meet tomorrow — back home in Arizona watching ASU vs. Arizona. Taking my youngest daughter and her swim friend to watch. If my daughter puts on her dream school sweatshirt (from that hick FarmVille in Northern California), I will have to bring my burnt orange out. Neither if us know who to cheer for between the Sun Devils and the Wildcats, so we are just hoping for good weather and good racing.
Ah ok well if you’re interested, blog some highlights from that meet and I’ll do same from USC/STanford if I I don’t get too busy and make it back over there tomorrow.
Patrick I agree the last relay and the 1000 were the races of the meet and Bagshaw looked especially good, especially in the 500 where he was out relaxed but strong right from the start in contrast with Quintero who appeared to be struggling the whole way and never really in it.
4IM prenot Cal 4:51 Hinshaw Cal 4:55 USC scratches lanes 5 and 7, I suspect they may be saving a couple of guys for the relay???
400 FR awesome race neck and neck most of way, Kolapev pulled away from Messerschmidt last lap 2:56.1-2:56.4 USC over Cal
Final score cal something like cal 170 USC 120ish
100 fly Maclin Davis USC 47.53 dominated kascinski Cal 48.3
500
Bagshaw 4:21.19 blew away
Quintero USC 4:29.06
That’s an impressive double of 9:02 and 4:21. I am hoping the rumors of Sam Lewis’s sub 9 1000 are true — http://swimswam.com/inside-info-texas-intrasquad-meet-without-competition-produces-fast-results/.
I just realized that was the first and last I heard about that Lewis swim. Did you check collegeswimming.com?
100 free Messerscmidt 44.1 Kupalov 44.3
2back Murphy 1:43.5 Pebley 1:44.4
Cal 113 USC 74
2breast prenot Cal overtakes Katis last lap 1:59.22-1:59.73
50
3 way tie for 2nd! 20.62 Wagner USC Maclin Davis USC and a cal swimmer
1st Chung Cal outside smoke lane 8 20.56
2fly
Kinsky? Cal 1:45.7
USC 2nd
Construction on the diving tower RIGHT behind the swimmers making it impossible to hear the announcer!
haha that would be Marcin Tarczynski!
Sorry! It was like listening to the teacher from Charlie Brown, plus with buzz saws going right next to the pool at the diving tower. No full scoreboard either, just one of those little ones that only shows one lane/time at a time with no names. The grand opening is in 2 weeks and they still have a lot of construction to do there.
I was surprised to hear that the pool isn’t new, (true?) that they just revamped the decks/stands and new diving tower. It’s hard to imagine they had the Olympics there in ’84; must have been very limited tickets even if they had temporary stands in. It still doesn’t look big enough for a modern-day Olympic… Read more »