UNLV Women, Cal Baptist Men Sweep Double Dual With Denver

UNLV vs CBU vs Denver

• Saturday, October 22, 2022
• Las Vegas, Nevada
• SCY (25 yards)
• Results
• Team Scores
  • Women: UNLV 192, Denver 108
  • Women: UNLV 202, CBU 98
  • Women: Denver 196, CBU 104
  • Men: CBU 156, UNLV 140
  • Men: CBU 174, Denver 126
  • Men: UNLV 161, Denver 133

Courtesy: UNLV Athletics

LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) – UNLV women’s swimming and diving team swept its double dual Saturday afternoon by scores of 192-108 over Denver and 202-98 over California Baptist at Jim Reitz Pool. The Rebel men split its double dual with a 161-133 win over Denver and 156-140 defeat to CBU.

During the meet, the Rebel women won seven individual events and tallied 25 top-3 finishes. On the men’s side, the Scarlet & Gray posted six individual wins and 15 top-3 finishes.

REBELS OF THE MEET:

WOMEN
*Super senior Teneka Ash won the 1000 free and took second in the 500 free.
*Freshman Erika Carlson swept her individual events, placing first in the 500 free and 200 free.
*Junior Blanka Bokros finished her weekend with a 200 fly victory after recording a pair of second-place finishes in the butterfly events in Friday’s season opener.

MEN
*Junior McKay Mickelson claimed a double-event sweep with wins in the 100 back and 200 IM.
*Freshman Kris Matuszewski earned a victory in the 200 free and finished second in the 100 free.
*Adnan Beji capped an unbeaten weekend with a first-place finish in the 200 breast.

THE RUNDOWN – WOMEN:
*In the 1000 free, the Rebels started the day with a 1-2 win headlined by Ash’s (10:17.39) win and rounded out by freshman Chloe Wendlandt (10:22.25) in second.
*Freshman Erika Carlson (1:50.86) had a decisive win in the 200 free, touching ahead of the second-place finisher by over two seconds. Her Scarlet & Gray freshman counterpart Ashley Hughes won the second heat (1:54.39) and finished third overall.
*Claiming the third Scarlet & Gray victory of the day, junior Calysta Bartlett (1:03.90 won the 100 breast.
*Coming away with a 1-2 Rebel sweep in a tight 200 fly race, Bokros (2:06.14) and super senior Gabby Lizzul (2:06.75) in second place finished within just over six-tenths of a second of each other.
*In the 200 back, UNLV landed its third 1-2 victory as sophomore Cameron Mykkanen logged the squad’s fifth individual first-place finish and super senior Gabby Lizzul (2:07.11) took second.
*In the 100 fly, Petschauer (57.86) in first, freshman Kyra Tonsil (58.30) in second and sophomore Pilar Cohen (58.74) broke out with the 1-2-3 sweep.
*The Rebel trio of Carlson (4:58.03) in first, Ash (5:01.38) in second and Hughes in third completed another 1-2-3 sweep of the 500 free.
*Cohen (23.70) finished the 50 free in second, coming within seven-hundredths of a second of first place.
*The Scarlet & Gray received another top-3 finish when freshman Averi Webb (59.00) placed third in the 100 back.
*Junior Malia Fernandez (52.56) chipped in a second-place finish in the 100 free. Sophomore Bridget Sullivan won the second heat (52.88) with the day’s third fastest time.
*Leading the way in another top-3 finish for UNLV in the 200 breast, Bartlett (2:22.17) finished second and freshman Jillian Moses (2:22.38) placed third. Juniors Tosia Iwanowska (2:22.74) and Ruby Howell – who exhibitioned the event – took the top-2 spots in the second heat with the event’s fourth and fifth fastest times.
*Piling on two more top-3 finishes, Bartlett (2:07.82) and junior Ruby Howell (2:08.65) grabbed respective second-place and third-place finishes in the 200 IM.
*The Rebel ‘A’ relay teams placed first in the 400 medley relay (Scarlett Cao, Iwanowska, Bokros, Fernandez) with a time of 3:49.58 and the 200 free relay (Cohen, Tonsil, Carlson, Fernandez) with a time of 1:35.38.
*UNLV’s ‘B’ relay team (Marta Klimek, Bridget Sullivan, Webb, Alexia Taylor-Arredondo) finished off the squad’s 1-2 sweeps on the day in the 200 free relay in second place with a time of 1:36.85
*Another pair of second-place finishes were contributed by junior diver Vika Yanovska in the 1-meter (267.90) and 3-meter (285.30) competitions.

THE RUNDOWN – MEN:
*Kicking off the Rebel wins in the 200 free, Matuszewski (1:39.93) and Zsolt Szodi (1:40.47) swept first and second place, respectively.
*The Scarlet & Gray momentum carried into the 100 free with a sweep of the top-2 finishes. Senior Steven Butler won with a time of 46.01 and Matuszewski (46.09) followed in second.
*Junior McKay Mickelson earned another men’s squad victory in the 100 back, swimming a time of 50.83. Ending his two-win outing, Mickelson (1:55.67) also won the 200 IM.
*Tallying another 1-2 UNLV event sweep in the 200 back were senior Panos Bolanos in first and Mickelson in second.
*Beji (2:00.59) sped away with the 200 breast UNLV win, out-touching the second-place finisher by 5.07 seconds.
*Pacing UNLV in the 500 free, Hilton Aitken finished third with a time of 4:42.34.
*Bolanos (1:55.47) added third-place finish in the 200 fly
*Junior George Ratiu led the Rebels in the 50 free (20.56) and the 100 fly (49.58) with second-place finishes. Butler (50.72), meanwhile, won the second heat of the event to place third overall.
*The Rebel relay ‘A’ squads won the 200 free relay (Ratiu, Bryson Huey, Matuszewski, Butler) with a time of 1:22.00 and took second in the 400 medley relay (Bolanos, Ian Belfower, Charley Page-Jones, Butler).
*Sophomore Dima Tereshchenko (322.95) led the Scarlet & Gray men’s divers with a second-place finish in the 3-meter competition.

QUOTABLE: “It was great to have so much support show up for our Alumni and Family Weekend and the team definitely felt that today. Competitively, we raced well, even though we came up short in a few of the dual matchups this weekend. This was pretty late in the season to have our first dual meet, so I feel like I learned a lot about our team, especially the newcomers. But overall, I’m looking forward to heading into November’s meets.” -UNLV Head Coach Ben Loorz

UP NEXT: UNLV will prepare for its next set of duals in two weeks on the road at Utah on Friday, Nov. 4, and BYU on Saturday, Nov. 5.

Courtesy: CBU Athletics

LAS VEGAS – California Baptist University men’s swimming swept their double dual in Las Vegas this weekend, topping the University of Denver 174-126 and defeating the reigning Western Athletic Conference champions UNLV 156-140. The women’s side, UNLV and Denver, came out on top at each end of their double duals, 202-98 and 196-104, respectively.

In the pool, Swimmer of the Meet Mark Kovacsics and his wins led the men in the 1,000 and 500-meter freestyle races. The Hungarian freshman clocked a 1,000 time that places him eighth all-time in the program’s top-10 list.

Four individuals and a relay team accounted for six first-place finishes out of 14 swimming events on the day. Kovacsics doubled up on his top podium spots, while Remi Fabiani, Jonathan Reiter, and Brendan Man all claimed one solo victory each.

The women’s side saw Michaela Trnkova, Naya Koc, and Mia Maspers all claimed a first place finish in events, pacing the women in the pool.  

DIVING

The 2022-23 dive season got off to an incredible start as three Lancers qualified for five NCAA Zone Championships. On the men’s side, Evan Honer and Gael Jimenez far surpassed the NCAA qualifying marks in both the 1-and-3-meter springboard events, and Natalia Bedolla did the same in her first 1-meter competition.

Jimenez was on point from dive one, setting a new program record in the 3-meter event, posting a score of 382.60. He breaks the record set by Honer in 2020 of 369.23. His 1-meter result of 349.80 was good enough to place him third all-time in the Lancer record book. Bedolla now ranks fourth and ninth all-time in the 1-and-3-meter record books, respectively.

Next up for the teams is the first home meet of the season as the Lancers prepare to host Cal Poly and San Diego at the Lancer Aquatics Center on Saturday, November 5. That meet is scheduled for a 2 p.m. start time.

Men’s Top Results (Event – Place – Time/Score)
400 Medley Relay
Rickenberger, Reiter, Man, Fabiani – 1^st – 3:20.96
200 Free Relay
Altmann, Chauvapun, Man, Milev – 2^nd – 1:23.94
Mark Kovacsics
1,000 Free – 1^st – 9:30.79
500 Free – 1^st – 4:35.11
Boris Milev
200 Free – 5^th – 1:43.05
Robert Moseley
100 Back – 2^nd – 51.26
200 Back – 4^th – 1:53.94
200 IM – 5^th – 1:57.03
Simon Rickenberger
100 Back – 3^rd – 51.45
Remi Fabiani
200 Free – 3^rd – 1:41.38
50 Free – 1^st – 20.43
100 Free – 3^rd – 46.16
Jonathan Reiter
100 Breast – 1^st – 56.56
200 Breast – 5^th – 2:10.34
200 IM – 2^nd – 1:56.05
Ian Mullen
100 Breast – 5^th – 59.16
John Sullivan
200 Fly – 4^th – 1:56.91
Brendan Man
200 Fly – 5^th – 1:58.02
100 Fly – 1^st – 49.42
Evan Honer
1-meter – 1^st – 358.30*
3-meter – 3^rd – 321.85*
Gael Jimenez
1-meter – 2^nd – 349.80*
3-meter – 1^st – 382.60* – Program Record
John Angelovic
1-meter – 5^th – 275.35

Women’s Top Results (Event – Place – Time/Score)
Giulia Decataldo
1,000 Free – 5^th – 10:46.25
Michaela Trnkova
100 Back – 1^st – 57.79
200 Back – 3^rd – 2:08.05
Faith Brazil
100 Breast – 5^th – 1:05.80
Naya Koc
200 Free – 2^nd – 1:53.09
100 Free – 1^st – 51.35
Amber Harris
200 Fly – 5^th – 2:09.57
Mia Maspers
50 Free – 1^st – 23.63
Natalia Bedolla
1-meter – 1^st – 279.00*
3-meter – 3^rd – 270.20

*NCAA Zone Qualifying Mark