Results

Gambier, Ohio - After a six-week layoff from competition, the Oberlin College swimming and diving teams returned to action on Friday afternoon, taking on Owls of Kenyon College and Division I foe Cleveland State. 

The Owls men's side came into the meet ranked No. 1 in the country in NCAA Division III and No. 2 on the women's end. The men's team fell to the Vikings 220-76 and to the Owls 216-67. The women's team dropped a 219-75 decision to CSU and lost 287-12 to Kenyon. 

The meet started with the Yeomen grouping of Myles Felt, Isaac Viviano, Erik Fendorf, and Daniel Bocsi taking second in the 200-yard medley relay in 1:35.34. Viviano later turned in a seventh-place finish in the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:13.09 while Felt added a third-place In the 100-yard butterfly in 51.63.

In the first individual event of the meet, first-year Chahine Said continued to impress, placing third in the 1,000-yard free behind two Owls with a time of 9:57.35. Said also registered a fourth-place finish in the 500-yard free with a time of 4:49.24 while teammate Miguel Siwady took sixth in the 16-person field with a mark of 4:50.26. Siwady also placed eighth in the 200-yard IM in 2:01.60. 

Felt returned to take sixth place in the 100-yard backstroke in 53.26, and Leo Powers would later follow with a fifth-place showing in the 200-yard butterfly with a mark of 2:03.70. In the 50-yard free, Fendorf placed sixth out of 13 swimmers in the event with a time of 21.84. 

In the 200-yard backstroke, rookie James Moll finished behind two Vikings to take third place in 1:57.83, narrowly missing second place by just .72-hundredths of a second. 

On the boards, Sebastian Lagasse was third in the 1-meter with 125.15 points and he also placed third off the 3-meter board with 126.35 points. 

On the women's end, Charlotte Hantus was seventh in the 1,000-yard free (12:00.01) while teammate Nyrobi Whitfield also took seventh place in the 50-yard free in 25.84. Whitfield would later place ninth in the 100-yard free in 58.82.

Audrey Weber clocked in at 2:48.58 to place eighth in the 200-yard breaststroke and Ronen Baron added another eighth-place finish in the 100-yard butterfly (1:04.92.)

In the closing 200-yard free relay, the foursome of Ava Peyton, Elinor Frost Hannah Hale, and Whitfield placed fifth in 1:43.31.

Off the 1-meter board, Faye Huffman totaled 143.55 points to place seventh, while Winifred Wood was one spot back with 124.60. Wood was sixth in the 3-meter event with 122.90 points. 

The swimming and diving teams go right back tomorrow afternoon with a dual meet at Ohio Wesleyan University starting at noon.