2017 Men’s Pac-12 Championships: Stanford Holds off Cal for Title
Stanford won the Pac-12 men’s championship on Saturday, finishing with 784 points. The Cardinal held off Cal, which was second with 767.
USC took third (657), Arizona State was fourth (531), Arizona was fifth (360) and Utah was sixth (257).
Here is what is happened:
Check out the results here.
1,650 freestyle
Stanford’s True Sweetser won the 1,650-yard freestyle to open the final night of competition. The freshman finished in 14:35.94.
Sweetser led a 1-2-3 finish for the Cardinal with Grant Shoults (14:50.06) and Liam Egan (14:57.47.
Arizona State’s Benjamin Olszewski took fourth (15:59.49), followed by Cal’s Pawel Furtek (15:05.60), Utah’s Matteo Sogne (15:12.54), Cal’s Ryan Kao (15:13.14) and Arizona’s Jerad Kaskawal (15:20.07).
200 back
Cal’s Ryan Murphy won the 200 backstroke in 1:38.07, beating the field by nearly a second.
USC’s Patrick Mulcare finished second (1:39.37), followed by Arizona State’s Richard Bohus (1:39.52), Stanford’s Patrick Conaton (1:41.01), Stanford’s Abrahm DeVine (1:42.08), Cal’s Andy Song (1:42.98), Utah’s Justin McArthur (1:43.03) and Arizona’s Thane Maudslien (1:43.33).
1 Murphy, Ryan SR CAL-PC 1:39.83 1:38.07 2 Mulcare, Patrick SO USC-CA 1:39.44 1:39.37 3 Bohus, Richard SR ASU-AZ 1:41.35 1:39.52 4 Conaton, Patrick JR STAN-PC 1:41.24 1:41.01 5 DeVine, Abrahm SO STAN-PC 1:41.72 1:42.08 6 Song, Andy FR CAL-PC 1:42.84 1:42.98 7 McArthur, Justin SO UTAH-UT 1:41.66 1:43.03 8 Maudslien, Thane SR ARIZ-AZ 1:42.11 1:43.33
100 freestyle
Arizona State freshman Cameron Craig won the 100 freestyle in 41.95, holding off Stanford’s Sam Perry (43.30).
Cal’s Justin Lynch took third (42.49), followed by Cal’s Michael Jensen (42.63), USC’s Santo Condorelli (42.94), Arizona State’s Tadas Duskinas (43.00), USC’s Dylan Carter (43.07) and Arizona’s Jorge Iga (43.42).
1 Craig, Cameron FR ASU-AZ 42.39 41.95 2 Perry, Sam JR STAN-PC 42.24 42.30 3 Lynch, Justin JR CAL-PC 42.55 42.49 4 Jensen, Michael FR CAL-PC 43.22 42.63 5 Condorelli, Santo JR USC-CA 42.78 42.94 6 Duskinas, Tadas SR ASU-AZ 43.18 43.00 7 Carter, Dylan JR USC-CA 42.83 43.07 8 Iga, Jorge FR ARIZ-AZ 43.08 43.42
200 breaststroke
USC’s Steven Stumph won the 200 breaststroke in 1:53.08 to give the Trojans a boost.
Cal’s Hunter Cobleigh took second (1:53.51), followed by Arizona State’s Christian Lorenz (1:53.87), USC’s Ridge Altman (1:54.04), Stanford’s Matt Anderson (1:54.53), and a trio of Cal swimmers — Matt Whittle (1:54.67), Nick Silverthorn (1:55.69) and Carson Sand (1:57.93).
1 Stumph, Steven SR USC-CA 1:52.82 1:53.08 2 Cobleigh, Hunter SR CAL-PC 1:55.68 1:53.51 3 Lorenz, Christian JR ASU-AZ 1:54.88 1:53.87 4 Altman, Ridge SR USC-CA 1:54.63 1:54.04 5 Anderson, Matt SO STAN-PC 1:55.84 1:54.53 6 Whittle, Matt JR CAL-PC 1:55.72 1:54.67 7 Silverthorn, Nick JR CAL-PC 1:55.93 1:55.69 8 Sand, Carson SO CAL-PC 1:55.77 1:57.93
200 butterfly
Cal’s Andrew Seliskar won the 200 butterfly, clocking a 1:41.12 to hold off teammate Michael Thomas (1:41.83).
Arizona’s Justin Wright was third (1:41.88), followed by Stanford’s Jimmy Yoder (1:42.48), Stanford’s Tom Kremer (1:42.96), Cal’s Jack Xie (1:43.04), Arizona State’s Patrick Park (1:43.58) and Cal’s Matthew Josa (1:43.68).
1 Seliskar, Andrew SO CAL-PC 1:42.39 1:41.12 2 Thomas, Michael SO CAL-PC 1:42.71 1:41.83 3 Wright, Justin JR ARIZ-AZ 1:41.91 1:41.88 4 Yoder, Jimmy SR STAN-PC 1:42.92 1:42.48 5 Kremer, Tom SR STAN-PC 1:43.96 1:42.96 6 Xie, Jack FR CAL-PC 1:43.56 1:43.04 7 Park, Patrick JR ASU-AZ 1:43.56 1:43.58 8 Josa, Matthew JR CAL-PC 1:42.40 1:43.68
400 freestyle relay
Arizona State closed the meet with a win in the 400 freestyle relay.
Richard Bohus, Andrew Porter, Tadas Duskinas and Cameron Craig won the event in 2:48.95. USC finished second in 2:50.37, followed by Cal (2:50.55), Stanford (2:52.52), Arizona (2:52.79) and Utah (2:54.40).
Event 21 Men 400 Yard Freestyle Relay ==================================================================== School Seed Finals ==================================================================== 1 ASU-AZ 'A' 2:53.33 2:48.95 1) Bohus, Richard SR 2) Porter, Andrew JR 3) Duskinas, Tadas SR 4) Craig, Cameron FR 2 USC-CA 'A' 2:52.21 2:50.37 1) Carter, Dylan JR 2) Condorelli, Santo JR 3) Tribuntsov, Ralf JR 4) Malone, Reed SR 3 CAL-PC 'A' 2:49.84 2:50.55 1) Lynch, Justin JR 2) Jensen, Michael FR 3) Seliskar, Andrew SO 4) Gutierrez, Long SR 4 STAN-PC 'A' 2:52.70 2:52.52 1) Perry, Sam JR 2) Kremer, Tom SR 3) DeShon, Spencer SR 4) DeVine, Abrahm SO 5 ARIZ-AZ 'A' 2:53.37 2:52.79 1) Dobbs, Chatham SO 2) Iga, Jorge FR 3) Jones, Parks SO 4) Thorne, Nick JR 6 UTAH-UT 'A' 3:00.01 2:54.40 1) King, Mckay SR 2) Phillips, Austin SO 3) O'Haimhirgin, Liam FR 4) Baker, Tommy FR