South Carolina Ladies, North Carolina Males End off Gamecock Invitational Wins
The South Carolina ladies’s group and North Carolina’s males completed off the Gamecock Invitational on Friday atop the group standings.
On the ladies’s facet, the Gamecocks outgained the Tar Heels by greater than 200 factors, thanks to a few swimmers who picked up their second win of the meet on Friday on the Carolina Natatorium. The margin for the North Carolina males was almost 300 factors.
Delaney Franklin, Jordan Agliano and Amy Riordan every picked up their second wins of the meet for South Carolina. Franklin claimed the 200 particular person medley in 1:57.15, holding off a cost within the final 50 yards from UNC’s Mary Macaulay, who bought inside .07 seconds on the wall. Each instances are underneath the NCAA customary.
Agliano competed the butterfly sweep by profitable the 200 in a equally engrossing race. Agliano went 1:55.86. She was .13 forward of UNC’s Taylor Bloom, who went 1:55.98. Each are NCAA cuts.
Riordan pulled away from the sector within the 200 backstroke to win in 1:52.59. That will get her to NCAAs. UNC’s Emma Karam was second in 1:54.47, additionally underneath the NCAA customary. Teammate Sophia Frei was .16 over the mark in third place in 1:54.96.
Gamecock Invitational Ladies’s Scores
South Carolina, 1506.5
North Carolina, 1298.5
Tampa, 808
East Carolina, 524
North Florida, 290.5
Georgia Southern, 248
Florida Southern, 233.5
Carson-Newman, 156
SCAD,* 244
Gamecock Invitational Ladies’s Scores
North Carolina, 1396
Tampa, 1104.5
South Carolina, 1055.5
Florida Southern, 624
Carson-Newman, 425
SCAD,* 294 (*SCAD was separated from NCAA group scoring as a result of being an NAIA program.)
North Carolina’s Kamryn Meskill received the 100 free in 49.20. She bested South Carolina’s Dylan Scholes, who went 49.64. UNC’s Michaela Chokureva was third in 49.81. The Carolinas took the highest 5 spots, organising an intriguing 400 free relay. The Gamecocks prevailed in 3:16.83, .21 forward of the Tar Heels. Ellery Ottem made the distinction on the anchor leg, her 49.31 rallying them to the win. Riordan handed off to Scholes and Samantha Chan. The UNC quartet was Chokureva, Meskill (48.18), Maren Conze and Mackenzie Headley.
UNC began the day with a sweep of the highest 4 spots within the 200 IM. Louis Dramm routed the sector within the 200 IM, his 1:41.92 effectively forward of the sector and an NCAA reduce. Ben Delmar missed that point by .15 seconds in 1:44.28. Sean Setzer received the 100 free in 43.28, teammate David Quaresma second in 43.55. Seb Lunak and Colin Whelehan went 1-2 within the 200 fly. Lunak’s time of 1:42.09 was effectively underneath the NCAA customary, however Whelehan’s was the nail-biter, going 1:43.76 to get .03 underneath the usual.
UNC continued the sweep because of JT Schmid within the 200 again. He went 1:41.42. That’s an NCAA reduce, and it was sufficient to carry off Merlin Ficher of South Carolina. Ficher’s 1:41.79 can be NCAA worthy. David Melnychuk of UNC was third in 1:42.79.
UNC completed it off with a1-3 end within the 400 free relay. The A squad of Dramm, Setzer, Quaresma and Martin Kartavi produced 4 42s to go 2:50.02, an NCAA provisional time.
