California Baptist vs Incarnate Word
- January 4, 2020
- Riverside, California
- Results
Courtesy: CBU Athletics
RIVERSIDE – A new year started off with an impressive dual win for California Baptist University, as it defeated Incarnate Word 163-137 on Saturday at the Lancer Aquatics Center.
The Lancers put themselves over the Cardinals by winning half of the 16 events and showing great depth in several races on the day. CBU improves to 2-2 on the dual season and handing UIW (4-2) just its second loss on the year.
Incarnate Word is a strong team and won the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA) conference championship in 2019 and went on to take 10th place at the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of American (CSCAA) National Invitational Invite.
Sean Foster, Joe Molinari, and Evan Honer led the Lancers with two individual wins each on Saturday. Foster continued to dominate the breaststroke by winning the 100 and 200 with respective times of 57.99 seconds and 2:02.86. Colton Babcock finished second in both events with times of 59.41 and 2:09.55.
Molinari started with a win the 200 backstroke in 1:51.36, while Robert Moseley took third (1:57.01). He then won the 100 butterfly by a wide margin, with his time of 50.12 behind 1.35 seconds faster than the runner-up David Miller (51.47). Josh Walters (51.84) and Adityastha Wratsangka (51.92) also took fourth and fifth in the race for CBU.
While he didn’t get the win, Molinari also added a runner-up swim in the 200 free (1:41.92).
Honer, a true freshman, overcome UIW’s Dawson Martinez, who qualified for the 2019 NCAA Zone D Championships, in both events. Martinez has also been named the CCSA Men’s Diver of the Year the past two seasons.
First, Honer won the 3-meter board with 328.58 points, with CBU teammates Tyler Stevens taking second (288.28) and Zane Freeman fourth (267.08). Honer got more of a challenge from Martinez in the 1-meter board, but still won by nearly 35 points, with a 318.30 score to 283.35 from Martinez.
It was a new best for Honer and moved him up to fourth in CBU’s top-10 record book. Stevens also took third on 1-meter with a new personal best of 271.95.
Walters was the fourth individual winner for CBU in the 50 free (21.24).
The Lancers started the day on a strong note by taking first and second in the 200-medley relay. Jacob Leahy, Foster, Molinari and Matthew Niculae won in 1:33.77, while Moseley, Babcock, Miller and Kyle White came in second (1:35.26).
Wratsangka logged the other new top-10 mark for CBU in the 200 fly. He took second place in 1:48.68, which updated his previous personal-record (1:48.99), which ranks eighth in Lancer history. Quinn Birtles (1:53.12) and Miller (1:54.54) also took third and fourth event.
Birtles led CBU to sweeping second through fourth in the 1650 free. He finished runner-up in 16:42.07, while Dylan Sweikert (16:53.08) and Aiden Hobson (17:03.52) took third and fourth.
Moseley also took second in the 100 back (53.22) and 200 individual medley (1:55.64). Trevor Van Law (55.11) and Wratsangka (1:59.69) also took third in the 100 back and 200 IM, respectively.
Niculae added two top-three swims in the 100 (second, 49.96) and 200 frees (third, 1:46.01).
The Lancers didn’t get the win but placed second and third in the 400-free relay to close out the day. Leahy, Walters, White and Niculae took second in 3:08.28 while Foster, Sweikert, Birtles and Babcock placed third (3:11.13).
CBU continues a three-dual homestand when Claremont-Mudd-Scripps visits the Lancer Aquatics Center Friday at noon. The Lancers will then host Western Athletic Conference foe Wyoming on Thursday, Jan. 16 at 1 p.m.
RIVERSIDE – Rita Smirnova won three events to highlight California Baptist University’s strong start to the 2020 season in a dual with Incarnate Word.
The Lancers and Cardinals finished tied with 150 points each on Saturday afternoon at the Lancer Aquatics Center. Smirnova paced CBU with three wins on the day in the 50 and 100-yard freestyles and the 400-freestyle relay.
Smirnova’s first win came in the 50 free, as she hit the wall in 24.47 seconds. It was .41 of a tick faster than Lancer teammate Hannah Houlton, who took second in 24.88. CBU swept the top-three spots in the event, with McKenzie Kelly coming in third (25.46).
Less than 20 minutes later, Smirnova won the very next event – the 100 free – in 53.25. It was a bang-bang finish, just .04 of a second in front of UIW’s Marie Ximena Conde Merlos (53.29), while Kelly took third again (53.50).
In the final race of the day, Smirnova helped secure the tie for the Lancers by swimming the third leg of the 400-free relay. Houlton and Rebeca Oviedo also swam the event in a victorious time of 3:34.35.
Nicole Cienega and Savannah Uhlir each won an event, as well, on Saturday. Cienega cruised to a win in the 200 butterfly with a time of 2:05.22, nearly five seconds faster than runner-up Kylie Morrison (2:10.11).
Uhlir won the 1-meter board with 237.68 points, while Madison Liu took second (216.08). Uhlir finished runner-up at 3-meter (226.13), while Liu (223.95) and Kiree Lowe (217.05) rounded out the top four.
Morrison came close to a win of her own in the 200 individual medley. Her runner-up time of 2:11.15 was just .06 of a second off Brenda Diaz Martinez (2:11.09), the winner from Incarnate Word. Cienega also took fourth in the event (2:11.52).
CBU moves to 1-2-1 on the year against a quality Incarnate Word squad that moves to 4-2-1. The Cardinals are a strong team coming off a third-place finish at the 2019 Coastal Collegiate Sports Association conference championship in 2019. UIW went on to take 39th at the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of American (CSCAA) National Invitational Invite.
The Lancers continue a three-dual homestand when Claremont-Mudd-Scripps visits the Lancer Aquatics Center Friday at noon. The Lancers will then host Western Athletic Conference foe Wyoming on Thursday, Jan. 16 at 1 p.m.
There were several other highlights on the day. The Lancers showed off their depth by taking second through fourth in the 200 free, 100 and 200 breast and 100 fly.
Mackenzie Mergel (1:55.41), Oviedo (1:57.85), Mackenzie Degn (2:01.33) and Houlton (2:02.53) swept second through fifth in the 200 free. Cienega (57.20), Morrison (59.43) and Hoyer (1:00.66) took second, third and fourth, respectively, in the 100 fly.
In the breaststroke, Emma Lindquist took second in the 100 (1:08.26) and was followed by Faith Brazil (1:09.96) and Lauren McKenna (1:10.16). Mergel (2:25.68) beat Lindquist (2:26.36) for second in the 200, while Alexa Melara came in fourth (2:27.07).
Buse Topcu (5:10.36) and Oviedo (5:12.46) also took second and third, respectively, in the 500 free. Topcu also took second in the 1650 (17:47.51), while Emily Longfellow (1:00.74) and Alexandra Walling (2:13.09) also took second in the 100 and 200 back, respectively.
CBU also nabbed second place in the first event of the day, the 200-medley relay (1:49.67), thanks to Longfellow, Brazil, Cienega and Degn.
Courtesy: Incarnate Word Athletics
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The University of the Incarnate Word women’s swimming and diving team tied California Baptist University, 150-150, in Saturday’s dual meet, while the men fell, 163-137, to the Lancers.
HOW IT HAPPENED
UIW dominated the day’s distance events with wins in the men’s and women’s 1650 and 500 freestyle. In the 1650 for the women, Brenda Diaz busted out a 17:18.03 to win the event, while Sergio Duran won for the men with a time of 15:55.57. Duran later touched first in the 500 free, going 4:39.93, with teammate Oscar Cardenas coming in right after with a time of 4:50.54.
On the women’s side for the 500 free, Ximena Conde won with a time of 5:04.42. Conde also tallied a first-place finish in the 200 free (1:53.52), while touching the wall just four hundredths of a second second behind the winner to place second in the 100 free (53.29).
The men’s 200 fly finals saw Hector Ruvalcaba Cruz dominate the competition with a time of 1:48.68, nearly five seconds faster than the second-place finisher. H. Ruvalcaba Cruz also tallied a win in the men’s 200 IM with a time of 1:50.76.
A close race until the end, Diaz was able to pull ahead to capture a victory in the women’s 200 IM with a time of 2:11.09. Kristen Straszacker took third in 2:11.38.
Straszacker got her wins in the women’s 100 and 200 back, with respective times of 59.05 and 2:07.66.
Leonardo Sanchez topped the heats in the men’s 200 and 100 free with times of 1:40.97 and 46.31.
In the men’s 100 back, Fernando Ruvalcaba Cruz took first with a time of 51.74. He later fell in the final moments of the men’s 200 back, taking second in 1:51.83.
Mariana Ruvalcaba Cruz notched two wins on the day, touching first in the women’s 100 breast (1:06.22) and 200 breast (2:24.53).
Sophie Taylor showed out in the 100 fly with a first-place time of 57.17.
Ana Lucia Garza placed first in 3M diving for the women (252.60), while boasting a strong 210.98 points on 1M. Kaylee Frantzen came fourth on 1M with 192.30 points. For the men, Dawson Martinez took second in 1M (283.35) while Timothy Newton was the top UIW finisher on 3M when he placed third (270.90).
The day’s relays saw the women win the 200 medley relay with a time of 1:48.59, while the men took third (1:35.42). The men later won the 400 free relay by over a second with a time of 3:07.20, and the women were second behind CBU (3:40.87).
UP NEXT
The Cardinals travel to Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Jan.10-11 to face the Air Force Academy.
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