Wabash utilized its team depth Friday afternoon in a 118-108 swimming and diving dual meet victory over Northern Michigan University Friday afternoon.
 
The Little Giants finished one place behind NMU one month ago at the Calvin Invitational.
 
Wabash scored 19 top-three finishes in the individual events and won the final relay of the day to secure the win. The Little Giants' foursome of Elliot Johns, Wyatt Tarter, Zechariah Banks, and Chris McGue won the 200 freestyle relay with a time of 1:26.82. David Johnson, Scottie Ogle, Joel Paquin, and Chris Dabrowski combined to place third by finishing in 1:33.27. Dakota Rhodes, Josh Bleisch, Clayton Highum, and McGue took second place in the opening 200-yard medley relay (1:40.45).
 
Jack Belford scored the first of two first-place finishes with a winning time of  1:46.19 in the 200 free. Kyle Louks took second by finishing in 1:49.16. Belford's second win came in the 500 free with a time of 4:45.12. Dabrowski place third in the event by finishing in 4:56.30.
 
Johns won the 50 free by touching the wall in 21.67. McGue placed third (22.50), while Tarter finished fourth (22.71). Johns added another victory in the 100 free with a time of 47.77, just ahead of Tarter in third place (49.24).
 
Wabash swept the top-two places in both diving events. Aaron Embree scored 227.05 points to win the one-meter competition, with teammate Max Von Deylen placing second with a score of 215.50. Embree also won the three-meter diving event with a score of 250.12. Von Deylen took second place with a final score of 230.25.
 
Banks scored a pair of second-place finishes for the Little Giants. He took second in the 200-yard individual medley by finishing in 2:00.80, just ahead of Belford in third place (2:04.39). Banks placed second in the 100 breaststroke (58.82) with Bleisch taking third place (1:01.84) in the event. Dabrowski scored a second-place finish in the 1,000-yard free (10:11.50) ahead of Paquin in third (10:16.65). Dane Gray grabbed third place in the 100 backstroke (56.66).
 
The Wabash performances came less than 24 hours after the team returned from its annual winter break training trip. The Little Giants traveled to Puerto Rico for 13 days.
 
"We did a few things differently with our training trip this year," Wabash head coach Brent Noble said. "Every year teams come off the training trip very tired. We put a lot of work into figuring out how to be fast regardless of how the guys feel or how tired they might be. That yielded some pretty good swims today despite having just gotten off a plane 24 hours ago. We stepped up, competed, and put some good times up against a top NCAA Division II team."
 
Wabash travels to Illinois Wesleyan next Friday evening before closing out the home portion of the schedule Saturday, January 16 against the University of Washington-St. Louis at 2 p.m.