Wabash scored eight first-place finishes and 27 total top-three finishes in its Friday night swimming and diving dual meet win over Rose-Hulman at the Class of 1950 Natatorium.
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Wesley Slaughter earned a pair of wins. He captured the 50-yard freestyle title with a winning time of 21.36. Teammate
Caleb McCarty finished third with a time of 22.08. Slaughter added a victory in the 100-yard freestyle by touching the wall first in 47.32.
Justin Wallar placed second overall with a time of 49.45.
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The Little Giants swept the top-three spots in the 100-yard backstroke.
Justin Dusza won the event with a time of 54.82.
Jan Dziadek finished in 55.25 to place second overall with
Ben Klimczak taking third place in 55.41. Klimczak and Dusza finished 1-2 in the 200 backstroke with Klimczak winning the event with a time of 2:00.58. Dusza completed the race in 2:02.30 to place second as well as scoring a second-place finish in the 200-yard individual medley by touching the wall in 2:04.47.
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The Wabash diving team swept the one-meter event to score a total of 16 points toward the team's total.
Tanner Carver won with a score of 230.70 points.
Max Johnson placed second with a total of 127.40 points.
Nick Goode scored a total of 110.65 points to place third overall.
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Isaac Temores captured first place in the 100 breaststroke by finishing in 1:01.99 ahead of teammate
Daren Glore in second at 1:02.42. Glore placed second in the 1,000-yard freestyle with a time of 10:28.68.
Ryan Sacco finished the 1,000 in 10:29.65 to place third overall. Glore also placed second in the 500 freestyle by finishing in 5:00.81.
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Dziadek raced to second place in the 100 butterfly by finishing in 54.25.
Kevin Sheridan added a third-place finish with a time of 55.86.
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Justin To finished second in the 200-yard breastroke by touching the wall in 2:19.87. McCarty added a second-place finish in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:47.55.
Anthony Mendez added a third-place finish in the 200 butterfly by finishing in 2:07.91.
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Wabash opened the meet with a victory in the 200 medley relay. Dusza, Slaughter, Dziadek, and McCarty combined to win with a time of 1:37.32. The Little Giant foursome of Klimczak, To, Mendez, and Temores scored a third-place finish with a time of 1:40.17.
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McCarty,
Ricky Damron, Goode, and Slaughter scored a victory in the final event of the meet, the 400-yard freestyle relay. The quartet finished in 3:14.65. Sacco, Glore, Klimczak, and Wallar combined for a time of 3:23.22 to place third overall.
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Wabash jumps right back into action Saturday afternoon with a double-dual meet against Anderson University and Bethel University of Indiana at 1 p.m. in the Class of 1950 Natatorium.
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