Lancers Dominate PCSC Pentathlon

Saturday, October 6

La Mirada, Calif.

10:00 AM

California Baptist University

PCSC Pentathlon

Photo by: Andrew Shortall

Lancers Dominate PCSC Pentathlon

10/6/2018 6:54:00 PM | Men's Swimming and Diving, Swimming and Diving

By: Robert Jordan, Sports Information Student Worker

RESULTS

SCORES

LA MIRARA, Calif. – A stellar showing led California Baptist University to a win at the PCSC Pentathlon on Saturday afternoon at the La Mirada Splash Aquatics Center. The pentathlon consists of each swimmer swimming five individual events.

CBU's biggest highlight came in the last race of the meet when the Lancers swept first through eighth in the 50-yard freestyle. The Lancers also swept first through third in five other event and won the team title with 644 points, while none of the three other teams had more than 81.

"The guys showed a lot of depth in our freestyle and both individual medley pentathlons," Coach Rick Rowland said. "We got first in five out of six pentathlons today, which I was really impressed by."

Brandon Schuster had an impressive two-second win the 200-yard individual medley in one minute, 52.72 seconds. It beat five other Lancers who finished second to sixth, with Scott Tolman (1:54.76) and Justin Quiroga (1:55.31) rounding out the top three.

"Brandon Schuster's 200 IM was impressive. He got first even with his goggles falling off," Rowland said.

Schuster's day was not done, as he won the 100 free (46.19) just ahead of teammate Jerome Heidrich (46.32) and Quiroga (46.56). Quiroga got his win in the 100 butterfly (50.02), with three other Lancers Adityastha Wratsangka (50.30), Robert Moseley (51.79), Riley Forristel (52.58) in the top four.

Tolman won an event of his own in the 100 breast (55.65), with Schuster (56.71) and Quiroga (58.80) rounding out the top three.

Heidrich (1:42.54), Colton Babcock (1:43.16) and Dylan Sweikert (1:46.03) took first through third in the 200 freestyle, while Sweikert (4:39.19) and Heidrich (4:42.07) also went one-two in the 500 free. There was one more win for Heidrich in the 50 free (21.27), while Leahy and Walters took second (21.34) and third (21.43), respectively.

Jacob Leahy and Josh Walters both finished first and second in the 50 butterfly and 100 IM. Leahy swam the 50 fly in 22.79 and the 100 IM in 53.30, while Walters had respective times of 22.92 and 54.59.

In the 100 back, the Lancers swept the top six positions, with Moseley in first (51.17), followed by Wratsangka (52.49) and Quiroga (52.66) in second and third.

Zane Freeman won both boards on Saturday, with 299.70 points on the 3-meter board and 250 on 1-meter. Freshmen Tyler Stevens took second at both the 3-meter (216.95) and 1-meter (246.25), as well.

In pentathlon action, the Lancers swept first through sixth in the short IM, which consists of a 50 butterfly, 50 backstroke, 50 breaststroke, 50 freestyle and 100 IM. Leahy (2:29.09), Walters (2:32.80) and Matthew Niculae (2:36.72) took first through third.

Three more Lancers: Heidrich (7:41.99), Babcock (7:48.65) and Sweikert (7:48.93) finished first through third in the freestyle pentathlon (25, 50, 100, 200 and 500 free).

The long IM pentathlon (a 100 of each stroke with a 200 IM) was another dominant sweep, with the Lancers taking the top five positions. Quiroga (5:23.35), Tolman (5:24.35) and Moseley (5:25.40) were the top three.

"I had two best times in the 100 fly and back, and overall my composite time was a lot better than last year so I can't complain," Quiroga said. "It's really fun getting to race my teammates both new and old in our first meet. I feel like we have good, young talent, so I am excited to see what they can do this year."