COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – The Macalester College men's swimming & diving team competed in a dual meet against Saint John's University at Warner Palaestra Pool Saturday afternoon. The final score came down to the last event, with the Johnnies coming away with a narrow 149-148 win.
The final event was the 200-yard freestyle relay, and Saint John's edged the Scots by 0.81 seconds with a time of 1:28.92.
The Scots opened the meet with a victory in the 200-yard medley relay. The foursome of junior
Kean Pajarillaga (Saipan, Marianas Pacific/Grace Christian Academy), first year
Tim Havlick (Colorado Springs, Colo./William J. Palmer), senior
Thomas Moore (Philadelphia, Pa./Science Leadership Academy) and first year
Tyler Voros (Andover, Kan./Andover Central) combined for a winning time of 1:40.22. In the individual events, Pajarillaga finished first in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 54.59 and won the 200-yard backstroke in 1:59.45. Moore won the 100-yard freestyle in 54.77 and took first in the 100-yard butterfly in 48.90. Junior
Bode Thompson (Blacksburg, Va./Blacksburg) touched first in the 200-yard butterfly in 2:09.45, and first year
Emilio Rivera (Berlin, Germany/John F. Kennedy Schule) captured the 200-yard individual medley in 2:03.19.
Second-place finishes for Macalester came from sophomore
Edward Barnes (Amherst, N.H./Souhegan) in the 200-yard freestyle (1:50.85), first year
Joe Palen (Seattle, Wash./Garfield) in the 100-yard backstroke (57.58) and the 100-yard butterfly (55.81), Havlick in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:02.02), first year
Brent Welch (Portland, Ore./Cleveland) in the 200-yard butterfly (2:09.88), and first year
Emery Taylor (Minneapolis, Minn./South) in the 50-yard freestyle (22.64).
Posting third-place finishes were Welch in the 500-yard freestyle (49.36) and the 200-yard individual medley (2:10.49), Voros in the 200-yard freestyle (1:52.38), first year
Henry Lyon (Chicago, Ill./Univ. of Chicago Laboratory Schools) in the 200-yard backstroke (2:11.66) and the 1000-yard freestyle (10:54.97), Rivera in the 100-yard freestyle (49.36), and first year
Ryan Morrison (Cypress, Texas/Cypress Woods) in the 100-yard butterfly (57.31).
In the diving events, sophomore
Miles Remmel (Bellingham, Wash./Sehome) placed third on both the 1-meter and 3-meter boards.
Macalester competes at the Grace Goblirsch Invitational at Gustavus on Saturday, Oct. 31 in St. Peter, Minn.
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