Friday Results (PDF)


CANTON, Ohio – Through 30 scored events, teams flexed their muscle for more broken meet records on the third day of the Great Midwest/Mountain East Swimming & Diving Championships on Friday. 
 
Findlay is on the verge of repeating as both men’s and women’s meet champions with over 1,000 points in each of the updated team scoring.
 
The Oilers’ women have 1,452.5 points with Hillsdale in second sporting 1,194.5 points. The UF men have accumulated 1,133 points while Tiffin is currently the runner-up with 937 points.
 
The final day of the G-MAC/MEC Championships will include senior student-athlete recognition in the C.T. Branin Natatorium. 
 
Tiffin’s Nick De Robles added another conference title to his credit with a 4:35.54 victory in the 500 freestyle. De Robles had already won the 1,000 freestyle.
 
Another Dragon, Christopher Hohenfeld, came through an individual win in the 100 breastroke as well. 
 
Conference meet records were broken by both genders in the 100 backstroke courtesy of Findlay’s Christina McFarland (56.23) and Tiffin’s Jonah Sumfleth (49.96).
 
Hillsdale also celebrated itself individual conference champ as senior Anika Ellingson won the 100 breaststroke in 1:02.83. She was just eight hundredths of a second away from matching the meet record. 
 
Host Malone pulled out a thrilling team victory in the women’s 800 freestyle relay as Denise Quentin, Abby Reynolds, Kaila Butterworth and Karly Bruce, all worked together in 7:49.19. It was Butterworth’s second conference event win after winning the 400 IM on Thursday. 
 
Findlay’s men captured the 800 freestyle relay title to close the evening and give the Oilers 64 points to the team score. Trent Williams, Mark Billeaud, Tyler Endecott and Tucker Stocker, swam a 6:57.58. 
 
The Oilers were also boosted by Katy Kouvaris and her win in the 200 butterfly. Kouvaris has accounted for 88 points through three days of the competition, ranking second only behind Fairmont State’s Courtney Deem and her three event titles. 
 
Tiffin’s Miguel Garcia Arroyo sustained his dominance in the meet with a fourth event victory, this time in the 200 butterfly. He has tallied over 100 team points for the Dragons so far, tops among all male competitors.