HIRAM, Ohio - The Wilmington College men's swimming team won all but four events and picked up its first dual meet victory of the season on Saturday by defeating Hiram College 151-94.
Freshman Sondre Haugen won three individual events for the Fightin' Quakers, claiming victory in the 100-meter freestyle (55.39 seconds), 200-meter freestyle (2:00.36) and the 100-meter butterfly (1:02.66). Fellow freshman John Good tapped the wall in 1:04.77 in the 100-meter backstroke and in 2:29.13 in the 200-meter IM to win both events.
Other individual events winners for Wilmington were Austin Reed in the 800-meter freestyle (9:51.89), Cameron Bolen in the 100-meter breaststroke (1:12.09), Michael Phillippe in the 200-meter backstroke (2:31.09) and Caden Traggiai in the 400-meter freestyle (4:38.17).
Wilmington won both relays as Phillippe, Bolen, Logan Lippert and Good turned in a time of 1:57.43 in the 200-meter medley relay to win the event by over four seconds. In the 200-meter freestyle relay, Haugen, Traggiai, Reed and Bolen had the fastest time of 1:41.90.
"We had swimmers from both teams swim seasonal best times today, but little errors proved costly for all," Head Coach Trip Breen said. "The things we are focusing on in training are starting to pay dividends, but improved habits take time. The swimmers are training hard, fatigue definitely played a factor in some of the mistakes we made today."
Wilmington will head to Manchester University for its final dual meet of the 2022 calendar year next Saturday.
