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INDIANAPOLIS – After three days of competition, the University of Indianapolis men and Drury University women will enter the final day atop their respective standings at the 2018 GLVC Swimming and Diving Championships after more records were broken Thursday at the Crawfordsville Aquatic Center in Crawfordsville, Indiana.
The Greyhounds extended their lead to triple digits with a 121-point advantage, while the Panthers now hold a 128-point lead.
Day three of the fifth annual league championship saw 12 more GLVC champions crowned, with four Conference records broken, two of which were also pool records. A total of 13 records have been set to this point in the event, while there were 18 new standards reached after the third day a year ago.
For the men, UIndy has accumulated 630 points to best second-place Drury (509). Missouri S&T remains third in the race with 425 points, followed by Truman State University (296), McKendree University (287), William Jewell College (270.5), Lewis University (163), University of Missouri-St. Louis (152), Bellarmine University (80) and Maryville University (36.5).
Drury scored 704 points on the women’s side, while Indianapolis (576) and Truman State (474) sit second and third, respectively. McKendree (263) and William Jewell (212) are fourth and fifth, followed by Bellarmine (196), Missouri-St. Louis (172), Lewis (161), and Maryville (77) at Nos. 6-9.
It was again a UIndy sweep on the men’s diving podium, as Josh Zylstra scored 490.20 points on the 3-meter board to secure another gold and GLVC Men’s Diver of the Year laurels for the second-straight year. On the women’s 1-meter boards, Greyhound newcomer Cassie Kury also swept diving gold with her score of 404.15 on the 1-meter and was named GLVC Women’s Diver of the Year.
In the opening race Friday night, Drury sophomore Erica Dahlgren won the women’s 500-yard Freestyle for the second-straight year, while her counterpart Joan Casanovas broke his 2017 GLVC and pool record by .46 seconds by touching in at 4:21.56. Dahlgren’s time met the NCAA Division II ‘B’-cut Qualifying Standard, while Casanovas hit an ‘A’-cut mark.
The records and the golds continued immediately for Drury, as senior Katya Rudenko dove in for a D-II A-cut time of 53.44 in the 100-yard Backstroke, besting her previous GLVC record of 53.63 from 2017. Winning the men’s version of the 100 Back with a B-cut was UIndy junior Rodrigo Codo Berti in 48.02, who also won gold last season.
Moving on to the women’s 100-yard Breaststroke, Drury senior Zuza Chwadeczko’s 1:00.88 was good for gold and an NCAA A-cut. Panthers’ teammate Andrea Bazzoli broke the men’s 100 Back GLVC and Pool record during the morning preliminaries in 53.71 before besting that clip in the finals at 53.65, which marked a B-cut swim.
UIndy sophomore Darian Murray didn’t waste any time matching Bazzoli’s effort, as she won the 200-yard Butterfly morning prelims with a 2:02.36 for a new GLVC standard before returning to the pool for finals action and outdoing herself and the record at 2:02.26. On the men’s side of the race, Drury got another gold medal thanks to junior Young Tae Seo with his finish in 1:49.20. Both were B-cut swims.
The 800-yard Freestyle Relay closed out the night, as the Drury foursome claimed gold and a B-cut in 7:27.43, while the McKendree men dominated its heat with a more-than-four-second victory in a time of 6:32.14 to also collect a B-cut standard.
All first- and second-place finishers are awarded first- and second-team All-GLVC honors, respectively.
The fourth and final day of the GLVC Championships begins Saturday with preliminaries of the 100 Freestyle, 200 Backstroke, 200 Breaststroke and 1650 Freestyle, beginning at 10 a.m. ET. Limited bonus coverage of the preliminaries will begin at 9:45 a.m. on the GLVC Sports Network until approximately 12 p.m. before another hour-and-a-half of extra coverage begins at 2:45 p.m. for the second- and third-fastest 1650-yard Frestylee events. Full coverage for finals competition will commence at 5:45 p.m.
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