Pirates Race Past Lenoir-Rhyne

Saturday, November 3

Buies Creek, NC

1 PM

East Carolina University

154

Lenoir-Rhyne

Photo by: Abbey Mercando

November 03, 2018 | Men's Swimming and Diving, Women's Swimming and Diving, Swimming & Diving

Complete Results (PDF)

Complete Results

BUIES CREEK, N.C. --- The ECU men's swim team won 14 of 14 events and improved to 3-1 as the Pirates defeated Lenoir Rhyne, 154-97, Saturday afternoon at the Johnson Natatorium on the campus of Campbell University. Freshman Marek Osina claimed three individual victories and freshman Ethan Knorr collected two.

The ECU women's swimming and diving team earned a split in its tri-meet with Lenoir-Rhyne and host Campbell, defeating LRC 173-85 and losing to the Camels 140-121 as the Pirates improved to 3-2 overall. Junior Lily West earned a trio of first-place finishes and junior Catherine Johnson swept the spring freestyle events.

"We had the opportunity to mix up our line up and swim some different events on the men's side today and the guys posted some good times," Pirate head coach Matthew Jabs said. "Hats off to Campbell. Those girls were excited and ready to race. We struggled in both aspects today. We got better as the meet went on, but it was too little too late."

Osina remained undefeated during individual events with three wins today, winning the 100 backstroke (50.80), 200 breaststroke (2:04.72) and 200 individual medley (1:54.94). Each one of his triumphs was by more than two seconds.

Knorr won the 1000 freestyle by more than 18 seconds in front of runner-up Manny Alvarez with a time of 9:56.96. He later edged fellow rookie Ryan Brennan by 16 hundredths of a second to win the 200 backstroke (1:56.24).

On the women's side, West swept the breaststroke events, winning the 100 (1:05.54) and 200 (2:21.32) before touching first in the 200 individual medley (2:10.02).

Johnson beat Campbell's Sarah Wilson by 0.40 to win the 50 freestyle (23.81) and Camel freshman Annie Sanchez by 0.16 to win the 100 freestyle (52.05).

ECU freshman Marianna Vignoli captured first-place in the 1000 freestyle (10:28.33) by more than 19 second ahead of second-place finished Megan Shoemaker of Campbell and nearly nine seconds better than Sanchez to win the 500 freestyle (5:04.36).

While the swimming teams were competing in Buies Creek, the ECU diving teams were hosting Duke and Richmond at Minges Natatorium.

Mary Warker posted the ladies' top scores on both boards, finishing fifth on the 3-meter springboard (272.15) and seventh on the 1-meter (251.85). Devin Nugent took fourth-place in both the men's 1-meter (296.95) and 3-meter (307.25) competitions.

"We will now turn our focus to the Georgia Tech Invitational," Jabs said. "This will be one of the fastest meets in the country. Our approach will transition more towards our individual performances, with less focus on team standings. Excited to see how our athletes stack up against some of the nation's best."

The Georgia Tech Invitational runs Nov. 15-17 in Atlanta.