Gators Secure Third Win of the Season over Owls

Saturday, September 28

Boca Raton, FL

10:00 AM

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Gators Secure Third Win of the Season over Owls

Saturday, September 28, 2019 | Men's Swimming & Diving

Results

By: Ryan Sosic

BOCA RATON, Fla- 13 different Gators posted top times in an individual event to spark the team to their third win of the season on Saturday morning against the FAU Owls at the FAU Aquatic Center.

Matching the theme from their two victories yesterday, the Gators got off to a quick start and outscored the Owls by a final tally of 208-90.

Kieran Smith, Marco Guarente, Will Davis and Jack Szaranek started the meet off with first-place victory in the 200 medley relay with a combined swim of 1:30.51. Smith led off with a 50 back split of 22.80 and Szaranek finished with a 50 free split of 21.06 (fastest overall).

In the second relay of the meet, Clark Beach, Khader Baqlah, W. Davis and Smith would finish with the top time of 3:01.20.

The Gators handled both distance events as Gravley and Smith picked up wins.

Finishing in second yesterday, Gravley would come back today and take the victory in the 1,000 free, his first win of his career. He finished the distance event in 9:25.80. Fellow freshman Alfonso Mestre tallied a swim of 9:35.53, rounding-out the top three.

Smith, tallying the fastest time of 4:27.88, was followed by teammates Kevin Vargas and Matthew Anderson for the top-three finishes.

Leading into the meet break, the Gators would take the next three individual events, beginning with a 1:38.20 swim by Trey Freeman in the 200 free. Dakota Mahaffey (100 back) and Dillon Hillis (100 breast) would follow with their first wins of the season.

After the break, the Gators would notch the top three places in three consecutive events.

Eric Friese, coming off his first career win yesterday in the season opener, paced the 50 free with a time of 20.56, followed by Baqlah in second (20.75) and Isaac Davis (21.11) in third.

Later, Friese would go on to win the 100 fly, posting the same result in the Gators' season opener the day before.

Grant Sanders, Freeman and Mahaffey all finished at the top of the 200 back event within three seconds of each other.

Guarente led the group of Gators in the 200 breast with a swim of 2:02.49. Hector Rodriguez would secure his second runner-up finish in 1:50.35 and Maffahey would again finish in the third spot.

In the last individual event of the meet, Baqlah, Hillis and Robert Finke posted the top-three times, led by Baqlah with an effort of 1:50.70.

Alex Farrow led the way on the boards for the Gators in both the 1 and 3-meter. Farrow barely snuck out a victory in the 3-meter, winning by less than three points. In the 1-meter, Nick Lydon would post a score of 265.80, good for a runner-up bid behind Farrow.

Quotables:

Head coach Anthony Nesty- "Our team came out this morning and continued the same type of swimming we put together yesterday. The men were ready to go from the start. Now we can head back to Gainesville and work on some things before our next meet against Minnesota on October 11th."

Up Next:

The team will be back on the road for their next meet, competing against Minnesota at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center on Oct. 11th at 7:00 p.m.

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