Honer's Medal Highlights Big Day for Lancer Aquatics

Saturday, January 15

Los Angeles

10:30 AM

California Baptist University

UCLA

Photo by: Nicholas Litwin

Honer's Medal Highlights Big Day for Lancer Aquatics

1/15/2022 4:08:00 PM | Swimming and Diving

By: Daniel Cook, Assistant Director of Athletics Communications

WESTWOOD & SANTA BARBARA – The California Baptist University swim and dive teams were back in action Saturday, but found themselves competing separately in Southern California as the divers continued on with their UCLA Bruin Diving Invitational and the swimmers made the trip to UC Santa Barbara to dual with the Gauchos.

DIVING
The second day of the UCLA Bruin Diving Invitational saw California Baptist divers make finals and have strong showings against a tough field of competitors. CBU again faced a field with some of the top diving talent in the nation from schools such as USC, Stanford, Wyoming, UNLV, UCSD, Nebraska, UCLA, Fresno State and San Diego State.

Evan Honer claimed a third-place finish in the men's platform event with a finals score of 328.45. This mark lifted him onto the podium ahead of two-time platform All-American Ethan Foster from Stanford. Jacob Penman continued his run of success by recording one of the highest scoring dives of the day, eclipsing the 60-point mark with his 5235D, on his way to a ninth-place finish.

Freshman Paula De Moya Alvarez made the cut from prelims to finals in the women's 3-meter springboard event, posting a score of 240.25. She went on to improve on her prelim score, recording a 269.45 to earn a 16^th place finish. Veteran Kiree Lowe closed the prelims just 3.5 points short of a spot in the finals, but earned a 19^th place finish ahead of fellow WAC divers from UNLV and nationally recognized opponents from the Pac-12, Big Ten and Mountain West schools.

SWIMMING
The results from CBU's first-ever trip to Santa Barbara were full of near hits with the Lancers claiming seven total wins on the day.

Giulia Decataldo led the day off with a win in the 1,000 yard freestyle, touching in 10 minutes and 31.47 seconds. Decataldo nearly swept the women's distance races, coming in second in the 500 free in 5:08.52, just .19 of a second behind first place. The Lancer women swept the top spots in three other races, including the 200-free relay.

Patricia Van Law hit the trifecta on Saturday, finishing third in the 100 backstroke (1:01.62), second in the 200 back in (2:09.60) and winning the 400 individual medley (4:35.80). That IM race saw Lancers abound as Amber Harris (4:51.15) and Lynn Henke (4:59.27) rounded out the top-three.

Vianka Hoyer (59.85) took top billing in the 100 butterfly with Amber French (1:00.28) and Harris (1:00.87) close behind in second and third. Faith Brazil notched a pair of runner-up finishes with the 100 and 200 breaststroke races in 1:07.20 and 2:23.94, respectively.

The men swept the same events, with Brendan Man (51.64) claiming the 100 fly crown and Robert Moseley (4:15.27) winning the 400 IM. Moseley would add runner-up finishes in the 100 and 200 back, touching the wall in 51.09 and 1:52.31, respectively.

Remi Fabiani also earned a pair of second-place finishes on the day, claiming silver in the 200 free in a time of 1:40.24 and the 100 free in 46.77.

UP NEXT
The third and final day of competition at the Bruin Diving Invitational will see the men on the 3-meter springboard while the women move up to the platform. Admission to Spieker Aquatics Center is free for those looking to attend Sunday's preliminary rounds at 10:30 a.m. or final round in the afternoon.