Results
ALLENDALE, Mich. -- Sophomore
Piotr Jachowicz won three individual events and swam a leg of the winning 400 medley relay team, but the Wayne State University men's swimming and diving team fell 165-135 on Saturday at Grand Valley State University.
Jachowicz (Lodz, Poland) won the 100 breaststroke in a time of 55.71, finished first in the 50 freestyle in a time of 21.32 and also was victorious in the 100 butterfly with a time of 50.83.
WSU had four other individual victories. Junior
Kristian Larsen (Frederiksberg, Denmark) picked up the victory in the 1000 freestyle, touching the wall in a time of 9:40.93.
Senior
Joaquin Abascal Gallegos (Madrid, Spain) won the 200 breaststroke by over four seconds, finishing with a time of 2:10.74. He also finished in thid in the 200 butterfly (1:57.07).
The Warriors won both diving competitions. Junior
Darrin Driesenga (Holland, Mich. / West Ottawa) won the 3-meter event with 301.65 points. Sophomore
Dylan Szegedi (Oregon, Ohio / St. Francis de Sales) earned a victory in the 1-meter event, winning with a score of 320.63 points.
Wayne State also finished in first place in the 400 medley relay. The quartet of sophomore
Lucas Fernandez Vilanova (Valencia, Spain), Jachowicz, senior
Nathan Hesche (Jackson, Mich. / Jackson) and sophomore
Kyle Taylor (Holland, Mich. / Holland) won with a time of 3:26.64.
Hesche finished in second in the 100 backstroke (52.96) and third in the 200 backstroke (1:56.64). Fernandez Vilanova earned a second-place spot in the 200 backstroke (1:55.71) and touched the wall in third place in the 100 backstroke (53.77).
Taylor also finished in third place in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:45.88.
Senior
Cameron Weaver (Davison, Mich. / Davison) touched the wall in second in the 200 breaststroke (2:15.11) and finished in fourth in the 100 breaststroke (1:01.60).
Wayne State's top team in the 400 freestyle was the team of Larsen, Taylor, Fernandez Vilanova and freshman
Eric Gensheimer (Farmington, Mich. / Farmington) which finished in third at 3:12.71.
