Fort Myers, Fla. - Facing three Sun Conference teams, St. Thomas Men's Swimming & Diving won all three of their dual meets Saturday at Ave Maria's Spooky Halloween Invite. The results were:
St. Thomas University 314 - New College of Florida 58
St. Thomas University 306 - Thomas University 81
St. Thomas University 275 - Ave Maria University 122
The Bobcats started their day with a relay win in the 400-yard medley relay, in which Aldo Zepeda, Eric Risland, Jayen Viscaino, and Leo Guleryuz won the event. They won the relay with a time of 3:29.47. Viscaino also finished third in the 1,000-yard freestyle right after. Also, Mert Basaran finished third in the 100-yard IM.
In the 200-yard freestyle, Elliot Best won the event with a time of 1:46.05. Yanzhuo Zeng finished second in the event as well. In the 100-yard backstroke, Brandon Holder won the event with a time of 52.61. After that, Holder finished second in the 50-yard fly with a personal best, and Flynn Smith finished third.
St. Thomas had a great performance in the 100-yard breaststroke, as they had the top-five finishes. Risland won the event with a time of 1:00.85, and Diego Gonzalez and Luis Perdomo finished behind him. Gonzalez had a personal best in the 100-yard breaststroke. In the 50-yard freestyle, Ali Alawi finished third in the event.
In the 200-yard IM, the Bobcats took five of the top six spots. Smith finished second in the race with a personal best, and Julian Lezcano finished third. In the next event, the 50-yard backstroke, Smith finished third. In the 200-yard freestyle, Istvan Akos Besenyi finished second, and William Hansen finished third.
The Bobcats had three event wins in a row. In the 200-yard backstroke, Aldo Pedroza Vargas won the event with a time of 2:04.15. Iker Ramirez Mugica finished second in the 200-yard backstroke. Next, in the 200-yard breaststroke, Ivan Anzarski won the event with a time of 2:18.26, while Holder finished third in the event. St. Thomas swept the podium in the 500-yard freestyle. Mario Granizo won the event with a time of 4:58.36, while Oskar Herbut and Dmitriy Peshkov finished right behind him in the 500-yard freestyle.
Two Bobcats were on the podium in the 50-yard breaststroke, as Luis Perdomo finished second and Jean Jimenez finished third. Akos Besenyi won the 400-yard IM with a time of 4:16.65, while Risland finished second.
In the last relay of the day, the St. Thomas B team of Risland, Javier Vargas, Hansen, and Alawi won with a time of 3:11.83 in the 400-yard freestyle relay. The St. Thomas A team finished in second. In the last event of the day, Guleryuz won the 50-yard freestyle.
The Bobcats will return to action on November 15, as they travel to Clearwater for the first of four days in the Tampa Invite. The meet will run from November 15 through November 18, with prelims starting at 10:00 am, and finals starting at 5:30 pm each day.
