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Bearcats sweep Xavier on Senior Day

CINCINNATI – The University of Cincinnati swim and dive programs beat their crosstown rivals Xavier on Friday afternoon. The men won with a score of 211-83 and the women completed the sweep with a 191-100.

Bearcats sweep Xavier on Senior DayBearcats sweep Xavier on Senior Day
CINCINNATI – The University of Cincinnati swim and dive programs beat their crosstown rivals Xavier on Friday afternoon. The men won with a score of 211-83 and the women completed the sweep with a 191-100.
 
Xavier University does not have a diving squad and the Bearcats divers competed amongst themselves.

The Bearcats honored their nine graduating seniors with a ceremony in-between the two events.
 
TOP FINISHES:
  • The Bearcats claimed the top four spots in the men's 200-yard freestyle relay with sophomore Hunter Gubeno, sophomore Bennett Vail, sophomore Ricky Williams and sophomore Thomas Matthew scoring in the top spots, respectively.
  • The Bearcats repeated the trick, this time in the women's 200-yard breaststroke, with freshman Annabelle Young, sophomore Logan Lawhorn, graduate student Victoria Hunt and freshman Kaylee Nagel rounding out the top four.
  • Sophomore Calvin Coetzee, junior Kevin Leibold, senior Riley Dafoe and Vail rounded out another top-four sweep in the 500-yard freestyle.
  • Senior Sydney St. Rose-Finear won the 1000-yard freestyle with a time of 10:28.69 and the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 5:03.75.
  • Sophomore Jessica Davis won three events starting with the 200-yard freestyle, 100-yard freestyle and the 50-yard freestyle.
  • Dominic Polling won the 100-yard breaststroke with a 56.18 and the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:03.90.
  • Junior Katherine Connolly got her season-best time in the 200-yard butterfly with a 2:04.19 and would also claim top spot in the 100-yard butterfly with another season-best time of 57.38.
  • Junior Michael Balcerak won the 50-yard freestyle with a 20.96 and the 100-yard freestyle with a 45.65 
NOTABLE FINISHERS
  • Sophomore Erin Shema picked up the victory in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 57.25.
  • Senior Blake Hanna and freshman Quinn Cynor finished with times of 49.32 and 51.80 to take the top two spots in the 100-yard backstroke.
  • Lawhorn grabbed first in the 100-yard breaststroke with a 1:05.69.
  • Sophomore Tommy Eaton won the 200-yard butterfly with a 1:50.66.
  • Hanna would win the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 1:46.81 and finished ahead of teammate Gubeno who clocked a 1:50.34.
  • Junior Mohamed Abdelbaky and Tommy Eaton claimed the top two spots in the 100-yard butterfly with 50.39 and 50.44, respectively.
  • Senior Camryn Streid and Annabelle Young took first and second in the 400-yard IM with times of 4:28.28 and 4:28.50.
  • Junior Spencer Sehlhorst won the 400-yard IM with a time of 3:58.72.
  • Guebno, Polling, Hanna and Balcerak won the final event of the day, the 200-yard freestyle relay with a time of 1:23.51.
Times for all the events for both squads can be found here.

UP NEXT
The Bearcats travel to the Bluegrass state for a meet at Kentucky on Friday, January 28th, and for a meet at Louisville on January 29th. 
 
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