2019 Mid-American Men’s Championships: Redhawks Dominate Day 1

Photo Courtesy: Twitter, @MiamiOHSwimDive

By Mark McCluskey, Swimming World College Intern

On Day 1 of the Men’s Mid-American Conference Championships, Miami University (Ohio) took a quick lead, winning the first two events of the championship, the 200 Medley Relay and the 800 Freestyle Relay, rewriting their own record board in the process.

BACK-TO-BACK ✊🏼@MiamiOHSwimDive takes both of the Monday relays to kick off the 2019 championship!

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Team Scores After Day 1

Miami University (Ohio): 80

Missouri State University: 68

Southern Illinois University: 64

University of Evansville: 60

Ball State University: 56

Day 1 Results

200 Medley Relay

In the 200 Medley Relay, the Redhawks (Jacob Peloquin, Noah Barr, Iago Moussalem, Nick Ward) narrowly beat out Missouri State University, going 1:25.99 and 1:26.06, respectively. Miami University (Ohio) even came within less than a second of the pool and meet record. While they just narrowly missed those records, they were able to secure their school record.

The final three teams all finished within a second of each other, but Southern Illinois was victorious in taking the bronze. They came in third with a 1:29.96, while University of Evansville came in fourth with a 1:31.13, and Ball State finished fifth with a 1:31.87.

800 Freestyle Relay

The Redhawks (Diego Valentim, Gordon Wheeler, James Wray, Iago Moussalem) ran away with this event as well, managing to get another school record in 6:31.32. Missouri State came in a little over three seconds behind them with a 6:34.60, taking the silver for the second time.

Rounding out the competition, Southern Illinois University came in third with a 6:37.87, University of Evansville finished in 6:40.78 to take fourth, and Ball State took fifth with a 6:47.17.

After Day 1, Miami University (Ohio) holds a strong lead, but there is still a lot more swimming to go. There should be strong competition to come in the next few days. Tomorrow the Mid-American Conference will compete in the 500 freestyle, 200 IM, 50 freestyle, and the 200 freestyle relay. Preliminaries will be at 10:30 a.m. and finals will begin at 6:30 p.m.

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