South Carolina Ladies End Unbeaten Twin Meet Season vs. Georgia Tech
South Carolina completed a primary unbeaten twin meet season since 1985 on Friday with a win over Georgia Tech in a cross-conference conflict.
The Gamecocks ladies’s staff claimed a 197-102 victory down in Atlanta to go 7-0 on the season. Georgia Tech’s males’s staff scraped out a 151-137 victory.
South Carolina began quick on the McAuley Aquatic Middle with a 1-2-3 within the 1,000 freestyle led by Nora Fluck. One-two outcomes led by Alexis Dalton (1:01.69) within the 100 breaststroke and Jordan Agliano (1:54.87) within the 200 fly helped the Gamecocks take management. They sealed it with a 1-2-3 within the 200 breaststroke led by Delaney Franklin, who went on to win the 400 particular person medley.
Kara West swept the dash occasions, going 22.59 to win the 50 free and 49.30 to say the 100 free. Agliano went 52.87 to edge Taylor Grimley by .08, Grimley second in each fly occasions.
Breckin Gormley led a 1-2-3 within the 500 with Fluck third. Emma Reiser was second in each. Amy Riordan received the 200 again. Sophie Verzyl scored 320.33 to win 1-meter diving and 378.38 to say 3-meter.
Georgia Tech bookended the meet with relay wins. Vivien Rothwell, Anne Deedy, Nina Stanisavljevic and Anna Hadjilouizou went 1:38.27 within the 200 medley relay to edge SC by three tenths. Stanisavljevic, Hadjilouizou, Phoebe Wright and Jillian Ferrari received the 400 free in 3:16.70. Ferrari was second within the 100 free, Stanisavljevic and Hadjilouizou second and third within the 50.
Rothwell lowered her Georgia Tech file within the 100 again for the third time, clipping two tenths off her mark in a time of 52.53. Lili Gyurinovics received the 200 free. Wright (1:53.93) completed second within the 200 again within the second-fastest time in class historical past.
Georgia Tech received each of the lads’s relays by tight margins. Ricky Balduccini, Joao Caballero, Stephen Jones and Robin Yeboah went 1:25.93 to win by a tenth. Yeboah, Balduccini, Chris Richardson and Caballero went 2:53.76, holding off South Carolina by .14 seconds.
Yeboah was excellent by profitable the 50 free in 19.74 and 100 free in 43.45. Balduccini’s 46.59 led the best way within the 100 again. Berk Erturk received the 200 fly and 400 IM. Max Fowler swept each diving occasions.
South Carolina was led by wins within the 200 free and 500 free Pierre Largeron. Connor Fry was second within the 500 free after profitable the 1,000 free. Einar Margeir Agustsson swept breaststroke, and Eldor Usmonov (100 fly) and Merlin Ficher (200 again) added wins.
