ALLIANCE, Ohio (Feb. 4)- The Saint Vincent men's swimming team traveled to Mount Union for a non-conference meet to wrap up their regular season. The Bearcats fell in the match by a final score of 169-88.
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Chris Bush picked up one of the Bearcats two wins on the afternoon. Bush won the 200-yard backstroke event, swimming a time of 2:21.50, four seconds faster than Owen Zundell of Mount Union who finished in second place.
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Bush also picked up a second-place finish in the 200-yard IM. Bush swam a time of 2:11.10 which was six seconds behind his teammate
Kris Smith who won the event for the Bearcats, swimming a time of 2:05.21.
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The Bearcats third win of the afternoon came in the 400-yard freestyle relay. The quartet of
Alex Leskovansky,
Hayden Klein,
Colin Spehar, and
Nicholas Jackman won the 400-freestyle, swimming a time of 3:29.33.
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The Bearcats also had the second-place relay team in the 400-freestyle as well. The quartet of
Noah Schollaert,
James Clark,
Robert Harrington, and
Anton Seifert swam a time o 3:46.33 to finish in second place.
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The quartet of
Jacob Dzurica, Smith, Spehar, and Leskovansky recorded a second-place finish in the 200-yard medley relay. The four swimmers swam a combined time 1:39.05, less than a second behind the winning relay team from Mount Union.
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Dzurica also picked up an individual second-place finish in the 100-yard backstroke. Dzurica swam a time of 53.70, just over a second behind Jacob Hathaway of Mount Union who finished in first place in the event.
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The Bearcats will enjoy a little over a week's break before they return to action for the President's Athletic Conference Championships. The PAC Championships are a four-day long event that will take place between February 15 and February 18.