The Monmouth College swim team sent their seniors out in style Saturday with a dual meet sweep of Knox and Lincoln College's at Pepper Natatorium. The Fighting Scots won 17 of the 24 events in the last home meet of the season for seniors
Raheem Brown,
Breanna Hoepfner,
Cassidy O'Connell and Taylor Sutchek.
     Divers
Ian Salveson and
Brenna Bowers got the meet off on the right foot for the Scots, winning the men's and women's 1-meter diving competitions with six-dive personal-best performances. Salveson threw his best score of 151.80 while Bowers posted a lifetime high of 182.15.
     Monmouth opened the swimming portion of the meet with wins in the 200-yard medley relay.
Christian Hernandez, Brown,
Riley Hess and
Andrew Domkuski combined to swim a 1:44.87, winning the men's race by nearly seven seconds. It was a closer finish in the women's swim where
Sarah Wright, O'Connell, Hoepfner and
Sadie Stone won by a half-second with a 2:04.71. Hoepfner also picked up a win in the 100 butterfly with a 1:09.11.
     The race of the day came in the men's 500 freestyle where
Cristian Corbett and
Sebastian Hernandez went stroke-for-stroke in a 1-2 Monmouth finish. Corbett out-touched his teammate by six one-hundredths in 5:09.97. The pair had reversed the finish in the 1000 where Hernandez won with a lifetime-best 10:35.97.
Claire Woodrow took the top spot in the women's 500 with a 5:39.46.
     The Scots also claimed firsts in the 200 IM, 200 free and the 100 breaststroke. Brown and O'Connell took top honors in the 200 IM, swimming a 2:10.40 and 2:20.21, respectively. In the 200 free, Hess clocked a winning 1:55.57 for the men and Sutchek finished ahead of the pack in 2:10.31.
Logan Hoepfner and Stone completed the Scots' sweeps with wins in the 100 breaststroke. Hoepfner's 1:10.20 won the men's event by nearly five seconds and Stone posted a winning 1:20.33 to edge teammate
Michelle Nafziger by a half-second.
     Monmouth's men took the freestyle sprints behind Domkuski's win in the 50 (22.61) and Matt Engebretsen's victory in the 100 (52.27). The Scots wrapped up the meet with a men's win in the 200 freestyle relay when Domkuski, Engebretsen, Hoepfner and Brown clocked a 1:33.66 to win by nearly eight seconds.
     The Scots will complete the regular season next weekend at the Principia Invitational before preparing for the Midwest Conference Championships Feb. 19-21.
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