SMU Men, Pitt Women Sweep Tri-Meet With Utah
The SMU men’s team and the Pitt women’s team swept a tri-meet on Friday and Saturday in Dallas. The ACC foes both bested Big 12 member Utah.
Pitt’s sweep on the women’s side moved the Panthers to 7-0 on the season, just the third such start to a season in program history and the first since 1985-86.
Men’s
- SMU 195, Utah 105
- SMU 166, Pitt 134
- Pitt 171, Utah 129
Women’s
- Pitt 172, SMU 127
- Pitt 184.5, Utah 115.50
- Utah 157, SMU 142
Pitt started the meet by winning the 200 medley relay by more than two seconds, the quartet of Claire Jansen, Jessica Strong, Sophie Yendell and Anna Wiechtertjes going 1:37.90. Jansen won the 100 backstroke in 53.15 and was second in the 200 back. Yendell was within .13 seconds of her school record in the 50 freestyle in 21.96, then led a 1-2 with Sydney Gring in the 100 fly, Yendell winning by .23 seconds in 52.28. Gring won the 200 fly. Avery Kudlac, Barbara Schaal, Yendell and Gring finished second in the 400 free relay, .06 behind SMU.
Kimmy Shannon won the 1,000 free for the Panthers and was second in the 500. Kudlac was second in the 200 free and 100 free.
Utah’s win came in part due to a 1-2-3 sweep on 1-meter diving. Kathryn Grant bested teammate Callie Eagleston by .75 points in 275.75 to win. Holly Waxman was third; she also finished second to SMU’s Jaclynn Fowler on 3-meter.
Alyssa Sorensen won the 100 breaststroke for the Utes, topping SMU’s Izzy Krantzcke by .14 seconds. Rylee McColley claimed the 200 breast. Norah Hay finished second in the 100 back and third in the 200 back.
SMU finished with the win in the 400 free relay in 3:16.64, via Maddy Parker, Teia Salvino, Madeleine Hebert and Summer Osborne. Salvino won the 200 free, edging Kudlac by .08 second. Hebert finished second in the 1,000 free. Parker won the 100 free in 48.32 and was second in the 100 free. Rachel Anderson claimed the 200 back and 200 individual medley, and Mira Szimcsak paired a win in the 500 free, edging Shannon by two tenths in 4:51.22, and was second in the 200 fly.
On the men’s side, SMU got two wins from Jack Berube to lead the victories. Berube went 46.54 to win the 100 back and 1:42.41 to take the 200 back, with teammate Eric Stelmar third in both. Laszlo Galicz edged Jack Hoagland for a 1-2 in the 1,000 free in matching 9:05s. Jack Forrest made it a distance sweep with his 4:20.01 in the 500 free.
Sage Sungail won the 50 free in 19.88. He was third in the 100 free, anchored the 200 medley relay to second place and backed the winning 400 free relay. Jack Moore won the 200 IM in 1:46.48.
Diving was a marked battle between Pitt’s Cameron Cash and SMU’s Luke Sitz. Cash scored 407.10 on 3-meter to edge Sitz by just under four points. Sitz tallied 364.55 to prevail by 20 points on 1-meter.
Pitt’s Julian Koch won the 100 free in 43.50 and the 100 fly in 47.32. Eli Hobson swam 53.65 to win the 100 breast and was on Pitt’s winning medley relay. Max Matteazzi added a second breaststroke win for the Panthers in the 200, and the Italian international was second in the 200 IM and third in the 200 fly. Marcin Goraj won the 200 free.
Utah got a win in the 200 fly via Evan VanBrocklin. He was also second in the 100 fly. Jakub Walter was second in the 200 free, as was Marshall Odom in the 50 free and Nolan Arnholt in the 500 free.
