Wabash Men Lower Several Pool Records To Defeat DePauw In End-of-Season Dual

DePauw vs Wabash 2021 End-of-Season-Dual

• Friday, March 19 – Sunday, March 21
• Crawfordsville, Indiana
• SCY (25 yards)
• Full Results (PDF)

Courtesy: Wabash Athletics

Day 1

Wabash captured first-place finishes in three of the five events on the first day of the End-Of-Season Meet between the Little Giants and DePauw University held Friday night at the Class of 1950 Natatorium. Wabash took an early lead in the team scoring with a 59-32 advantage after the first day.

Wabash started the evening with a victory in the 200-yard freestyle. Wesley Slaughter, Gavin Hill, Caleb McCarty, and Jan Dziadek combined to win the event with a time of 1:23.06. Brandon Edwards, Chaz Rhodes, Lucas Daniken, and Isaac Temores combined to place second overall by finishing in 1:24.93.

The Little Giants continued to stack on points by turning in a 1-2 finish in the 500-yard freestyle. Daren Glore won the event in 4:41.71. Nick Young grabbed second place by touching the wall in 4:50.98. Jacob Penrose scored a fourth-place finish with a time of 4:54.13.

Wabash dominated the 50-yard freestyle, capturing the top-seven places out of 14 competitors. Slaughter took the top spot with a winning time of 21.01. Hill finished second at 21.11, followed by Rhodes in third place with a time of 21.32 to complete the team scoring for the Little Giants.

Justin Dusza placed second for Wabash in the 200-yard individual medley by finishing in 1:56.12. Will Melcher scored a fourth-place finish with a time of 2:00.93. Tyler Richmond finished fifth at 2:05.76.

Wabash added six more team points by finishing second and third in the final race of the night, the 800-yard freestyle relay. Connor Baker, McCarty, Glore, and Slaughter combined to finish in 6:56.71. The team of Hill, Young, Penrose, and Rhodes produced a third-place time of 7:07.46.

The meet, which is part of the North Coast Athletic Conference Challenge and the Division III Swimming and Diving Challenge, continues Saturday with two sessions. The first begins at 11 a.m. with the 400 medley relay. The evening sessions starts at 6:30 p.m. with the 1650 freestyle. General admission is not allowed. The meet can be viewed live at https://team1sports.com/Wabash with live results available at https://wabash_ftp.sidearmsports.com/custompages/SwimmingDiving/Live/index.htm and on Meet Mobile.

Day 2

Wabash broke three Class of 1950 Natatorium records on Saturday during the second day of competition between the Little Giants and DePauw at the two schools’ end-of-season meet.

Fittingly two of the records were broken by senior Jan Dziadek on a day that he and his fellow senior members of the 2020-2021 Wabash team — Wesley Slaughter, Chaz Rhodes, Tyler Richmond, and Nick Young were honored for their careers as Little Giant swimmers.

Dziadek broke his own pool record with a winning time in the 100-yard butterfly. He touched the wall in 48.82 to eclipse the former record of 49.06 to win the event. Gavin Hill placed third overall with a time of 50.59. Will Melcher added a fifth-place finish with a time of 53.66.

Dziadek broke another of his own records with a first-place finish in the 100 backstroke. He completed the race in 50.30 to break his previous pool record of 50.32. Justin Dusza finished in 51.94 to capture fourth place in the event. Rhodes finished fifth overall with a time of 53.70.

Dusza joined with Isaac Temores, Hill, and Caleb McCarty to break the pool record in the opening event of the morning session, the 400-yard medley relay. The foursome turned in a time of 3:24.73 to win the event, finishing nearly three seconds ahead of the former record of 3:27.63. Rhodes, Justin To, Lucas Daniken, and Brandon Edwards placed third in the relay by finishing in 3:33.63.

Temores added an individual victory in the 100 breaststroke with a winning time of 58.66. To finished second for Wabash in 59.68. Sam Bleisch earned a fourth-place finish with a time of 1:03.47.

Freshman Connor Baker scored a pair of individual victories for Wabash Saturday. He won the 400-yard individual medley in the morning session by finishing the race in 4:10.58. Daren Glore place third with a time of 4:14.86. Jacob Penrose finished fifth at 4:18.81. Baker added another victory by finishing in first place in the 1650 freestyle in the evening session. His time of 16:24.68 was nearly a minute faster than the rest of the field. Adam El-Khalili placed fourth for the Little Giants with a time of 17:39.61.

Slaughter added another first-place finish for Wabash in the 200 freestyle, winning that event with a top time of 1:43.61. McCarty finished in 1:44.08 to earn a third-place finish ahead of Young in fourth place at 1:45.64.

Rhodes, Slaughter, Dziadek, and McCarty closed out Saturday’s competition with a win in the 200-yard medley relay. The quartet won the race with a time of 1:31.75. Dusza, Temores, Daniken, and Edwards combine to take third place with a time of 1:35.90.

The record-setting efforts helped Wabash expand its lead over DePauw heading into Sunday’s final day of competition. The Little Giants finished day two with a total of 163 points compared to 76 for DePauw. The final day of events starts at 11 a.m. Sunday morning.

Day 3

Wabash closed out the final day of its 2021 end-of-season swimming meet against DePauw University by breaking three more pool records as well as a freshman record to soundly defeat the Tigers by a score of 231-120.

The victory over DePauw is the first in head-to-head competition since 2015 and the first win in the Class of 1950 Natatorium since 2014.

Jan Dziadek started the last of the three-day competition by breaking his own natatorium record in the 100-yard individual medley with a winning time of 51.22. His effort Sunday bettered his previous record of 51.85. Will Melcher scored a second-place finish in the event with a time of 55.65. Ryan Sacco added a team point to the Wabash total with a fifth-place finish at 58.76.

The Wabash foursome of Wesley Slaughter, Caleb McCarty, Gavin Hill, and Dziadek took DePauw off the record board in the 400-yard freestyle relay. The Wabash quartet won the final event of the meet with a time of 3:05.19 to snap the pool record set by DePauw in 2014. Brandon Edwards, Daren Glore, Justin Dusza, and Isaac Temores placed second in the relay with a time of 3:10.46.

Glore added an individual victory in the 200-yard breaststroke with a winning time of 2:09.43. Temores placed second by touching the wall an eyelash behind in 2:09.44. Justin To placed fifth overall with a time of 2:19.82. Slaughter scored a first-place finish in the 100 freestyle by turning in a time of 46.47. McCarty completed the event in 47.27 to place third overall ahead of Edwards in fourth place at 47.47.

Dusza, Chaz Rhodes, and Marc Nicholson placed second, third, and fourth respectively in the 200-yard backstroke. Dusza finished the race in 1:52.84 while Rhodes turned in a time of 1:59.48. Nicholson posted a time of 2:03.47 good for fourth place.

Jacob Penrose placed third in the 200-yard butterfly by finishing in 1:57.30. Tyler Richmond scored a fifth-place finish with a time of 2:05.50.

Dziadek broke one more pool record in a time trial race at the conclusion of the meet. He posted a time of 1:54.26 to break the old pool mark of 1:55.18. Connor Baker broke the Wabash freshman record in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:41.47 in a time trial. The old mark stood at 4:42.47.

“It was great to close out our season the way we did,” Wabash head coach Will Bernhardt said.  “It was a total team effort from start to finish. From the opening session until today, we were on fire. Coming off of a weird season due to the pandemic it was hard to predict how our men would handle the ups and downs of a difficult season with a large gap in training from Thanksgiving to mid-Januar I am proud that they took care of business while they were away and that diligence paid off today.

“It has been a long five seasons since that last dual meet win against DePauw so it was great to send our seniors out with a very big win! We broke a lot of records over the weekend but I am just happy that we were able to compete and do it with fans in the stands. We had fun and it was great to share that with our family and friends.”

Courtesy: DePauw Athletics

Crawfordsville, Ind.- The DePauw University men’s swimming and diving team closed out its 2021 season with 22 top-three finishes; however, came up short in its 120-231 End of Season Dual loss to Wabash College.

The Tigers finished with three individual first-place finishes, seven individual second-place finishes, and seven individual third-place finishes.

Senior swimmers Jake Frech and Ian Longan tallied a total of 11 top three times in this weekend’s dual. Frech would finish the three-day dual with two individual second-place finishes in the 200-yard freestyle (1:44.04) and the 100-yard freestyle ( 46.87). Longan earned three individual second-place finishes in the 100-yard butterfly (49.88), the 100-yard backstroke (51.55), and the 200-yard butterfly (1:53.24).

Ben Hilfinger led the team with three individual top-three finishes across the weekend. Hilfinger took first in the 200-yard IM (1:55.76) and the 200-yard butterfly(1:52.68) and placed second in the 400-yard IM with a time of 4:12.31.

Completing the weekend with two individual top-three finishes apiece were swimmers Seth Fagen, Tommy Hackley, and Patrick Unterreiner. Fagen took first in the 200-yard backstroke (1:52.44) and in the 100-yard backstroke took home third (51.88). Hackley earned second-place in the 1650-yard freestyle (17:14.26) and would finish third in the 500-yard freestyle (4:52.97). Unterreiner would finish the weekend with two third-place finishes in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:11.01) and the 200-yard IM (1:58.79).

Kellen Bachler, Braden Mallery, and Robbie Sheffield each recorded third-place finishes rounding out DePauw’s individual top-three finishes. Bachelor finished the 100-yard IM in 56.55, Mallery swam the 1650-yard freestyle in 17:16.91, while Robbie Sheffield finished the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:01.46.

The Tigers relay teams pulled in five top-three finishes this weekend with a first-place finish in the 800-yard freestyle relay, made up of Fagen, Hillfinger, Longan, and Hackley, with a time of 6:54.31.