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Gophers Win B1G Triple Dual
1/27/2018 12:00:00 AM | Women's Swimming & Diving
MINNEAPOLIS - Minnesota men's and women's swimming and diving closed out their regular season with a pair of Big Ten victories Saturday afternoon defeating Northwestern and Purdue. The teams combined for 30 victories in the 40 event triple dual. Highlighting the weekend was a sweep of all eight relays as well was the butterfly and freestyle events.
Women
No. 18 Minnesota 212, RV Purdue 141
No. 18 Minnesota 283, Northwestern 70
Senior Brooke Zeiger started the Gophers winning ways, finish first in the 400 IM in a time of 4:22.53. Zoe Avestruz moments later gave Minnesota another victory beating out a host of Boilermakers in the 100 free (49.88).
Senior Danielle Nack completed yet another sweep of the butterfly events. Nack's strong 100 fly finish of 52.69 out touched the competition in over two and a half seconds.
Sophomore Lindsey Kozelsky displayed another dominate performance in the 200 breast out touching the Purdue's Cady Farlow at 2:11.86. The Gophers captured two more top five finishes in the 200 breast behind Rachel Munson (2:16.76) and Rae Bullinger (2:18.13).
Adding notable finishes on the day were Mackenzie Padington, Abbey Erwin and Erin Emery in the 500 free placing 2-4-5 respectively.
On the diving platform, Minnesota posted a 3-4-5 finish. Beth Ettterman captured the Gophers top finish (246.70) with Mariam Khamis (243.25) and Morgan Justus (233.45) right behind her in the 4-5 slot.
The Gopher relays were two-for-two winning both the 200 free relay (1:31.28) and 400 free relay (3:20.66).
Men
No. 24 Minnesota 192, Purdue 160
No. 24 Minnesota 258, Northwestern 93
Junior Bowne Becker continues to grow in the freestyle events. Becker captured the Gophers first top finish of the day completing the 100 free in 43.18. Teammates Tim Sates and Kyle Van Niekerk were right behind Becker in the 2-3 spots to give Minnesota the sweep.
Sophomore Tumoas Pokkinen led the charge in the 100 butterfly with a top time of 47.92. Matt Thomas captured the third place finish at 48.42 while Becker touched in just behind Thomas at 49.14.
In the 500 free Minnesota saw finishes in four of the top five spots. Sophomore Nick Saulnier placed second in the event touching the wall at 4:33.74. Junior Nick Plachinski (4:35.13), freshman Kristian Hansen (4:35.32), freshman Cameron Kelley (4:35.41) touched in 3-4-5 respectively.
Notable second place finishes for the Maroon and Gold were Justin Torres (4:00.06) in the 400 IM and Conner McHugh (1:57.92) in the 200 breast.
On the diving platform the Gophers were led by senior Alan LeBlang (393.35). Jeremy Moser (371.15) and Nick Yang (354.90) followed with the second and third place finishes.
UP NEXT
Minnesota now heads in to the championship portion of their season. The women travel to Columbus, Ohio for the Big Ten Meet Feb. 14-17. Tickets can be purchased by clicking here. The men will have three weeks to rest before hosting the Big Ten meet Feb 21-24 at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center.
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