Pirates Sweep Meet With William & Mary

Saturday, October 12

Greenville, N.C.

1 P.M.

East Carolina University

176

101

William & Mary

October 12, 2019 | Men's Swimming and Diving, Women's Swimming and Diving, Swimming & Diving

Complete Results (PDF)

Complete Results (PDF)

GREENVILLE, N.C. --- The East Carolina men and women's swimming and diving team swept a dual meet from William & Mary at Minges Natatorium on Saturday. The men's squad posted a 176-101 win to improve to 2-1 on the season, while the women's team upped its record to 2-1 as well with a 173.5-99.5 victory.

"It was a great meet on both sides," ECU head coach Matthew Jabs said. "William & Mary is a championship level program, and our meets with them are always exciting and full of energy. We were very happy to finally be home in front of our fans. We had a packed house again today and we are very grateful to everyone who came out to support us."

The ECU men placed first in 10 of 14 events beginning with the 200-yard medley relay team of Marek Osina, Lyubomir Epitropov, Gustavo Santos and James Ward setting a pool record with a time of 1:30.51.

Osina was triumphant in the 200-yard backstroke (1:48.43) and 200-yard IM (1:52.53), edging out the Tribe's Ben Skpoic by 0.08 seconds in the IM after touching 2.39 seconds in front of teammate Magnus Andersen in the backstroke.

Senior Blaz Demsar claimed two individual first-place finishes in a pair of freestyle events. He finished 1.03 seconds ahead of teammate Pietro Nannucci to win the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:40.91 before touching 1.58 seconds in front of classmate Grega Popovic to capture the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:38.15.

Ben Gingher claimed victory in the 100-yard breaststroke (56.01) as did Adam Mahler in 200-yard butterfly (1:01.01), Rodrigo Romero in the 3-meter diving competition (388.73), Gavrilo Blijden in the 1-meter diving, Epitropov in 200-yard breaststroke (2:00.97), Santos in the 100-yard butterfly (48.91).

Demsar, Santos and Ward were joined Pedro Guieros in the 400 freestyle relay and combined to establish a new Minges Natatorium record with time of 3:02.60.

Shannon Stotts led the ladies team by recording two individual first-place finishes and was a part of a pair of relay winning teams. She swept the butterfly events, winning the 100 by 2.96 seconds over teammate Victoria Gillet with a time of 2:07.81, then edging out Lise-Lotte Bentin by 0.66 seconds in the 100 with a mark of 56.42.

She swam the third leg in both the 200-yard medley and 400-yard freestyle relays.

Lilly West touched first in the 100 and 200-yard breaststroke events. She won the 100 by 0.63 seconds with a time of 1:05.79 and led ECU to sweep of the top 3 positions in the 200 with a mark of 2:20.62.

Freshman Jodi Ogle swept the backstroke races, edging teammate Rachel Strickland by 1.60 seconds in the 100 with a time of 57.46 before comfortably winning the 200 by nearly five seconds (4.98) with a time of 2:02.58.

Freshman Adela Vavrinova was also a multi-event winner, capturing the 100-yard freestyle (51.80) and the 200-yard IM (2:04.03).

Silvia Alessio posted the top score on the 1-meter diving board and Anna Otto on the 3-meter springboard. Kristen Stege touched first in the 500-yard freestyle.

The Pirates will return to action Saturday, Oct. 19, at 1 p.m. inside Minges Natatorium as they host Campbell (women only), Catawba and Lenoir-Rhyne.