Freshman Jan Dziadek scored a pair of individual first-place finishes for Wabash in Friday night's dual meet at DePauw University. The Little Giants lost to DePauw 178-113.
Dziadek won the 100 butterfly by finishing in 52.41. Teammate Kyle Louks scored a second-place finish with his time of 53.94 in the event. Dziadek returned to win the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 1:59.75.

Ben Klimczak helped Wabash to a 1-2 finish in the 200-yard backstroke by posting a winning time of 1:59.16. Chaz Rhodes finished second at 1:59.24.

The Little Giants jumped out to a good start with a victory in the opening relay. Rhodes, Benny Liang, Dziadek, and Wesley Slaughter combined to win the 200-yard medley relay with a time of 1:35.99. Klimczak, Hunter Jones, John Lang, and Jacob Riley placed third by finishing in 1:38.65.

Chris Dabrowski placed second in the 1650 freestyle with a time of 16:55.91. Rhodes scored a second-place finish in the 100 backstroke by finishing in 53.64. Klimczak finished third in 55.02. Louks and Kevin Sheridan placed second and third, respectively in the 200 butterfly. Louks finished in 2:01.52 with Sheridan right behind in 2:03.47. Slaughter picked up a second-place finish in the 100 freestyle, touching the wall in 48.43 along with a third-place effort in the 50 free with a time of 22.01. Jones placed second in the 200 breaststroke with a time of 2:13.03 and added a third-place finish in the 100 breaststroke at 59.73. Liang finished third in the 200 breaststroke with a time of 2:21.68. Joey Karczewski placed third in the 200 freestyle at 1:48.54.

Lang added two second-place finishes on the diving boards, scoring a season-best 239.35 points in one-meter competition. He tallied 151.75 points on the three-meter board.

The Little Giant quartet of Karczewski, Liang, Louks, and Slaughter closed out the meet with a third-place finish in the 400 free relay with a time of 3:16.81.

"I'm fine with the way we swam tonight," Wabash head coach Brent Noble said. "We can't really do anything about the way DePauw swam. They performed better than they had at this point by a really large margin. We swam about where we've been. Our results were very similar to our previous meets. We had some good swims. We raced hard. We did some things we're working on doing well. So I am content with the way we performed.

"The season is a process. It's long and continuously building on itself. I like where we're going and what we're putting together and the path we're on. I'm still confident that things will go favorably when we see DePauw at the end of the season at the conference meet." 

Wabash returns to action Saturday against Rose-Hulman in the Class of 1950 Natatorium beginning at 1 p.m.