The Little Giants finished the meet with 860 points. Kenyon finished first with 1,623.5 points, with Denison taking second place with 1,392.5 points. Wittenberg was fourth with 805.5 points, Allegheny was fifth with 798 points, and Wooster finished sixth with 650 points. Ohio Wesleyan (598.5 points), Oberlin (426 points), and Hiram (263 points) took the final three spots.
Wabash diver Nick Roersma (Grand Rapids, MI/Northview) (photo) earned All-Conference honors in the one and three-meter diving events. Roersma took second place in the three-meter event with a season-high 387.95 points, and took third on the one-meter board with another season-best effort of 361.35 points.
The 200 medley relay team of R.J. Morgan (Indianapolis, IN/North Central), Craig Haupert (Cedar Lake, IN/Lowell), Brandon Peacock (Crawfordsville, IN/Crawfordsville), and Ben Long (Zionsville, IN/Zionsville) not only set a new best time for the year, but also reached the NCAA provisional qualifying time with a time of 1:35.82, good for third place in the event. The third-place finish also earned All-Conference honors for the four swimmers.
Other top Wabash times came from Nick Collins (Michigantown, IN/Clinton Central), who took eighth in the 400-yard individual medley (4:20.55), and Morgan’s fifth place in the 100 backstroke (53.34). Morgan also had a eighth-place finish in the 200-yard backstroke (1:58.24). Gary Mineart (Noblesville, IN/Noblesville) took ninth with a season-best 16:52.59 in the 1650 free, just ahead of teammate Sean Gallagher (Lawrence, KS/Freestate) who took 10th place with a time of 16:55.76.
Senior Paul Meyer (Indianapolis, IN/Broad Ripple) also had a season-best time in the 200 butterfly, touching in eighth place in 2:00.68. Haupert added a sixth-place finish in the 100 breaststroke.
The Little Giants will conclude the regular season with a dual meet against DePauw University on Friday, February 23 at 7 p.m. at the Class of 1950 Natatorium.