Wabash scored its first two dual meet victories of the season, sweeping a double-dual from Illinois Wesleyan and Rose-Hulman Saturday afternoon. The Little Giants defeated host IWU 96-42. Wabash handed Rose-Hulman a 99-41 loss.
The Little Giants opened the meet with a victory in the 200 medley relay. The quartet of Nick Rockefeller, Evan Rhinesmith, David Birrer, and Craig Vetor won the race with a time of 1:40.37. Rhinesmith added two more individual victories in the 200 breaststroke and the 50 free. He won the sprint race with a time of 22.88. Teammate Alex Beck finished fourth in the 50 by touching the wall in 23.42. Rhinesmith’s time of 2:17.59 was tops in the 200 breaststroke, while Little Giant Paul Buescher finished third (2:27.11).
Buescher added his own individual win in the 100 breaststroke, posting the top time of 1:04.76. Chad Woods and Logan Falley went 1-2 in the 200 free. Woods won the event (1:50.98), while Falley trailed by less than two seconds with a final time of 1:52.52.
Vetor scored two first place finishes --- one in the 100 free (48.70) and the other in the 200 individual medley. Freshman Logan Rice finished second to Vetor in the 200 IM (2:10.10). Chris Kermin added a third-place finish along with Vetor’s win in the 100 free. Kermin finished with a time of 50.63.
Elijah Sanders was first in the 1000 free (10:32.49). Rice took second place with a time of 10:43.19, and was second in the 500 free (5:06.15). Sanders posted a third-place finish in the 500 free (5:12.87). Birrer and Adam Current scored second- and third-place finishes, respectively in the 100 butterfly. Birrer was second with a time of 54.90, while Current scored third place points after finishing in 55.67. Current was also third in the 200 backstroke (2:11.51).
Rockefeller scored a third-place finish in the 100 backtstroke (57.78). Birrer (2:04.77) and Falley (2:06.25) took second and third in the 200 butterfly.
The Wabash freshmen diving duo of Korrey Short and Jake Schild performed well once again. Short took third on the one-meter board (202.25) and second on the three-meter board (226.50). Schild was third in three-meter competition (181.15) and fourth on the one-meter board (195.20).
The Little Giants closed out the meet with a victory in the 200 free relay with the combination of the Vetor, Robert Fozkos, Beck and Chris Kermin finishing in 1:30.21.
“We got a solid performance today,” head coach Steve Barnes said. “We struggled a little bit to have the same firepower today that we had yesterday, but we put our best foot forward. Logan Rice stepped up for the team today with three solid individual swims, and Evan Rhinesmith turned in a good performance in the 50 free and 200 breast. Korrey Short and Jake Schild are continuing to progress nicely on the boards for the team, as well.”
Wabash returns to action November 11 with a dual meet at DePauw University.
