Titans Suffer Close Defeat To Vikings

Phil Devine (Jr. • Winnebago, Ill.) earned a victory in both diving events as the UW-Oshkosh men’s swimming and diving team fell to Lawrence University by a score of 120-113 at Albee Hall on Saturday (Dec. 10).

Devine, Mose Coffee (So. • Glendale) and Alex Socha (Jr. • Pleasant Prairie) swept first, second and third place in both the one-meter diving with scores of 352, 274 and 203 and the three-meter challenge with scores of 348, 210 and 197.

Dalton Anderson (So. • Elkhorn) added winning performances in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 51.13 and in the 500-yard freestyle with a mark of 4:52.15. Brian Markovich (Jr. • Colgate) also posted a first-place result when he clocked a 1:07.94 in the 100-yard breaststroke.

The 200-yard medley relay group of Anderson, Markovich, Quin Lenz (Fr. • Oshkosh) and Jon Streich (Jr. • Hubertus) raced to a second-place showing with its time of 1:48.06. Streich tacked on a finish of second in both the 200-yard freestyle (1:55.27) and the 100-yard backstroke (1:04.52). Jeremy Potter (Sr. • McFarland) continued the Titans’ run by grabbing the second position in the 1,000-yard freestyle with a time of 12:01.43.

Matt Engelhardt (So. • DeForest) challenged his competitors in the 50-yard freestyle, earning second with a clocking of 23.66. In the 100-yard freestyle, he also achieved second place with a time of 51.26. Engelhardt, Potter, Eddie Dominguez (So. • Greendale) and Tyler Murphy (Fr. • West Chicago, Ill.) battled in the 200-yard freestyle relay before placing second at 1:37.49. Markovich marked another runner-up score with his 2:14.03 in the 200-yard individual medley.

Lenz touched the wall second (1:12.39) in the 100-yard breaststroke and third in the 500-yard freestyle (5:39.56). The 200-yard freestyle relay squad, consisting of Devine, Coffee, Zach Seelman (Fr. • Sturgeon Bay) and Tim Kuckuk (So. • Plymouth), captured second with its mark of 1:58.96.

The Titans will host UW-La Crosse in Albee Hall on Jan. 15.