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Yellowjackets Compete At CWRU Quad Meet, Top Grove City

Yellowjackets Compete At CWRU Quad Meet, Top Grove City

From University of Rochester Athletics

The University of Rochester men's swimming and diving team had one event win and a slew of other strong finishes at a quad meet hosted at Case Western Reserve University on Saturday.
 
Rochester combined to go 1-2 in the triple-dual format, as the Yellowjackets defeated Grove City College 157-139, but fell to host CWRU 209-89 and also lost to Gannon University 161-126.
 
Senior Arlen Fan posted the lone win for Rochester, touching first in the 100 breaststroke in a time of 1:00.06.  The senior also finished 4th in the 200 breast in 2:15.94 and was on UR's 4th place 200 medley relay team (1:38.86), along with teammates Connor Virgile, Josh Allon and Danny Aronson.
 
Junior Eric Feirouz had two third place results and fifth, coming in the 200 IM (2:01.14), 200 backstroke (1:57.06) and the 200 freestyle (1:47.71).  He was edged out by teammate Eric Sonheim in the freestyle race by two tenths of a second.
 
Besides his 4th in the 200 free, Sonheim was also on UR's 3rd place 200 freestyle  relay team which clocked in at 1:28.34.  The quartet in that race also included Allon, Evan Villafranca and Aronson.
 
Eric Weidman ended up in 4th place in the 1000 freestyle, posting a time of 10:08.06.  Villafranca clocked in at 22.14 and finished 5th in the 50 freestyle, edging out Aronson who was 6th in 22.17.  Aronson also wound up 5th in the 100 freestyle (49.16).