GRANVILLE, Ohio — The Wabash College men's swimming and diving team remained in fifth place in the team standings following Friday's finals session at the 2026 North Coast Athletic Conference Swimming and Diving Championships at the Trumbull Aquatics Center on the campus of Denison University.

Wabash enters Saturday's final day of competition with 655 team points, trailing fourth-place DePauw (716) and sitting ahead of Wooster (511.5) and Oberlin (471). Host Denison leads the men's standings with 1,352.5 points, followed by Kenyon (1,193.5) and John Carroll (805.5).

Sophomore Ryan West delivered the top individual finish of the night for the Little Giants, placing fifth in the 400-yard individual medley with a finals time of 4:01.97 to score 28 points. West moved up from his preliminaries seed time of 4:07.10 and closed with a 26.58 split over the final 50 yards to secure his A-final finish.

Freshman Zach Baty added a 16-point performance in the same event, finishing 14th overall in 4:15.14 after competing in the B final. Senior Dane Market and freshman Andres Tejada scored in the C final, placing 21st (4:23.99, 7 points) and 22nd (4:30.02, 6 points), respectively.

In the 200-yard freestyle, sophomore Mason Gilliam posted a personal-best time of 1:42.62 to finish 12th overall and earn 18 points. Junior William Renie followed with a 16th-place finish in a personal-best time of 1:44.86 to add 12 points to the Wabash team total. Senior John Allen (1:48.04) and sophomore Lucas Ferreira (1:48.12; personal best) added C-final points with 24th- and 25th-place finishes worth four and three points, respectively.

Wabash scored heavily in the 100-yard breaststroke, led by freshman Lew Sams, who placed 10th overall with a B-final time of 57.04 to earn 22 points. Freshman Abbas Hakim finished 14th in 58.87 (16 points), while sophomore Cooper Kowalski placed 17th in 1:00.25 (13 points). Market added a second scoring swim of the evening with an 18th-place finish in 1:01.12 (12 points). Sophomore Jace Caldwell contributed eight points with a 20th-place effort of 1:01.73 in the C final.

Junior Quinn Sweeney and freshman Owen Thomas both scored in the 100-yard butterfly. Sweeney placed 14th overall in 50.45 to earn 16 points, while Thomas finished 25th in 53.46 to add three points.

In the 100-yard backstroke, junior Nicholas Plumb led Wabash with a 13th-place finish in 51.59, scoring 17 points. Baty added 12 points with an 18th-place time of 54.29. Thomas and Ferreira each returned to the pool in the C final, finishing 22nd (54.34, 6 points) and 23rd (54.83 for a personal best, 5 points), respectively.

On the boards, junior Michael Cruzado scored 24 points with a ninth-place finish in the one-meter diving competition, posting a finals score of 265.40. Sophomore Liam Fuller (236.50) and freshman Fox Seebach (220.65) placed 11th and 12th in preliminaries to score 19 and 18 points, respectively.

Wabash closed the evening with a seventh-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle relay. The quartet of Allen, Renie, Thomas, and Hakim combined for a time of 1:28.39 to earn 52 team points.

The championship meet concludes Saturday with preliminaries beginning at 9:30 a.m. and finals scheduled for 6 p.m.