California Baptist University
UNLV Invite
Lancers Leave Vegas on High Note
11/18/2017 8:13:00 PM | Men's Swimming and Diving, Swimming and Diving
RESULTS
LAS VEGAS – Even up against NCAA Division I competition, California Baptist University found a way to showcase its impressive depth in the 200-yard breaststroke and 100 freestyle events at the UNLV Invite on Saturday.
It helped the second-ranked Lancers in NCAA Division II finish fifth at the eight-team event with 553 points. CBU topped Brigham Young University (222) of Division I in the process, while sticking close to other D-I institutions like UC Santa Barbara (931.5), Pacific (737.5), UNLV (637) and Cal Poly (570).
The biggest highlight of the entire weekend came when Jerome Heidrich set a new school record in the 100 freestyle. He swam it in 44.30 seconds in the prelims and improved in the finals and took second in 43.79. It was well below the D-II consideration time of 45.59, which Alexis Ohmar also hit in the prelims (45.24) and finals (45.34) when he took eighth.
"Heidrich broke the school record twice," Coach Rick Rowland said of the previous 100-free record of 44.35 set by Josh Hanson in 2016. "Incidentally, of the 68 in the event, the only person that beat him was a grad student with no college eligibility."
Three Lancers secured top-eight finishes in the 200 breaststroke prelims, as Scott Tolman, Sean Foster and Adrien Deloffre finished fifth through in two minutes, 3.21 seconds, 2:03.48 and 2:03.84, respectively. Tolman went runner-up in the finals (2:01.66), whole Foster (2:02.95) and Deloffre (2:03.19) took sixth and seventh.
Robert Griffith took second in the 1650 freestyle in 15:32.19, while Josh Fluetsch took third in the prelims and ninth overall (15:55.72), which was well under the D-II consideration time of 16:05.01. Payton Thomas and Sakeri Holter took 12th and 16th in the race with times of 16:44.82 and 16:58.59, respectively.
CBU's 400-free relay team of Heidrich, Brandon Schuster, Bernardo Valentim and Ohmar took fourth in 2:59.70, which was just under the consideration time of 2:59.79.
Deloffre also took 13th in the 100 IM (52.19). Quinn Birtles (1:53.31) and Riley Forristel (1:53.48) took 15th and 16th in the 200 butterfly prelims, and Birtles jumped up to 12th in the finals (1:51.98) while Jacob Leahy took 15th in the 200 backstroke in 1:53.92.
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