The Colorado College men's swimming and diving team earned seven first-place finishes and defeated SCAC foe Trinity University, 124-119, Friday afternoon at Schlessman Natatorium.
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Aidan Richter and
Wyatt Wellehan went 1-2 in both diving events. Richter started off the day racking up a score of 290.73 in the three-meter and followed it up with a 290.03 score in the one-meter event.
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Edmund Davis was a distance machine, winning the 1,000-yard (10:19.24) and 500-yard (4:57.80) freestyle events. Davis won the 500-yard and 1650-yard freestyle in last year's SCAC Championship. The Bellevue, Wash., native was the only CC swimmer to win multiple swimming events on Friday.Â
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Jack Hussin touched first in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 47.71. Hussin also went second in the 200-yard freestyle (1:45.52).
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Caleb Peimann (54.74),
Dax Sherwood (56.57) and
Ely Dickson (56.62) swept first, second and third in the 100-yard backstroke.
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CC went 1-2 in the 100-yard butterfly, with
Tomas Gonzalez (53.45) and
Eric Uerling (53.79) leading the charge. Gonzalez and Uerling joined Peimann and
Collin Ralston for a second-place finish in the 200-yard medley relay.
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In the 200-yard IM, Ralston helped collect some valuable points with a second-place finish (2:02.29).
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"There's always that uncertainty going into the first meet, but I always say uncertainty just means there's a chance that it will be great, and it was," head coach
Anne Goodman James said. "I am so happy with how well we competed."
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CC and Trinity will face off again at Schlessman Natatorium on Saturday, beginning at 11 am.
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