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Pack Picks Up Wins Over Kentucky in 2022-23 Home Opener
10/21/2022 7:43:00 PM | Swimming
RALEIGH – Swimming at home for the first time in the 2022-23 campaign, NC State's men's and women's swimming and diving teams both beat Kentucky in a Friday night dual.
The fourth-ranked Wolfpack women defeated the 11th-ranked Wildcats 172-126 in a ranked matchup, and the fourth-ranked men of NC State cruised past Kentucky with a 188-105 victory.
NC State put together podium sweeps in five events, and four members of the squad picked up multiple top finishes. That group was highlighted by junior Abby Arens, who won a team-leading three races on the night.
INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS:
Arens put together a speedy 200-yard butterfly race, winning the event with a time of 1:55.65 that was just .23 off of her own pool record. Arens also won the 100-yard freestyle just two events later in 49.33. Her times in both of those events were NCAA provisional marks.
Arens' performance in the 100-yard freestyle started off the first sweep of the night for the Wolfpack women as Abbey Webb (50.74) and Katherine Helms (51.08) touched just after her. Arens then rounded out her night with a 1:58.35 win in the 200-yard individual medley.
The Pack men put together back-to-back 1-4 sweeps in the 200-yard freestyle and the 100-yard backstroke. In the freestyle event, Luke Miller (1:34.78) led the way for the attack by Michael Cotter (1:36.81), Bartosz Piszczorowicz (1:37.56) and Sam Hoover (1:38.18), and Quintin McCarty (47.02) placed first in the backstroke sweep that included Giovanni Izzo (48.51), Ryan Weaver (49.15) and Stephen Conrad (49.29).
McCarty added his second victory of the night in the 100-yard freestyle (43.43). Miller (43.87) and Arsenio Bustos (44.92) joined him in the top three.
It was also a 1-3 finish for the men in the 50-yard freestyle with David Curtiss (19.38), Nyls Korstanje (19.51) and Drew Salls (20.65) battling it out.
The women's 100-yard backstroke race came down to the final touch, with the Wolfpack claiming the top two spots from Emma Muzzy (53.45) and Kennedy Noble (53.75). The duo went on to do the exact same in the 200-yard race with times of 1:55.34 and 1:56.23.
Alons also doubled up in wins in the 50-yard freestyle (22.46) and the 100-yard butterfly (52.60).
The men got one final sweep in the 100-yard butterfly as Aiden Hayes (47.70), Noah Bowers (47.93), Izzo (48.36) and Piszczorowicz (48.56) dominated the race.
RELAYS:
NC State set the tone with a pair of relay wins between the men and the women, with both first-place squads beating out the field by two seconds. Kennedy Noble, Heather Maccausland, Kylee Alons and Meghan Donald teamed for the 1:37.84 win on the women's side, and Aiden Hayes, Mason Hunter, Nyls Korstanje and David Curtiss followed suit in 1:25.38.
The Wolfpack exhibitioned both 400-yard freestyle relays, but Alons, Abbey Webb, Helms and Annabel Crush teamed up for the fastest time on the women's side (3:20.43), and Curtiss, Piszczorowicz, McCarty and Miller did the same for the men (2:52.52).
DIVING:
Patrick O'Brien added a win for the Pack men with his 331.95 Zones cut on three-meter.
Helene Synnott picked up a top-three finish on the women's side with her three-meter score of 299.48 that was good for a Zones cut, and Renato Calderaro (322.05, Zones cut) and Spencer Bloom (302.70) did the same on one-meter for the men with season-best scores.
UP NEXT:
The Wolfpack will spend the next few weeks preparing for its annual fall invite as it hosts the NC State/GAC Invitational from Nov. 17-19 in Greensboro, N.C.
WOMEN'S TOP FINISHERS:
- 200 medley relay: Noble Maccausland, Alons, Donald (first place - 1:37.84)
- 1,000 freestyle: Brooke Travis (first place - 9:57.19)
- 200 freestyle: Abbey Webb (first place - 1:47.44)
- 100 backstroke: Emma Muzzy (first place - 53.45)
- 100 breaststroke: Heather MacCausland (first place - 1:00.59)
- 200 butterfly: Abby Arens (first place - 1:55.65)
- 50 freestyle: Kylee Alons (first place - 22.46)
- One-meter: Clara Tate (fifth place - 267.08)
- 100 freestyle: Abby Arens (first place - 49.33)
- 200 backstroke: Emma Muzzy (first place - 1:55.34)
- 200 breaststroke: Andrea Podmanikova (second place - 2:12.22)
- 500 freestyle: Brooke Travis (second place - 4:50.74)
- 100 butterfly: Kylee Alons (first place - 52.60)
- Three-meter: Helene Synnott (third place - 299.48)
- 200 individual medley: Abby Arens (first place - 1:58.35)
- 400 freestyle relay: Alons, Webb, Helms, Crush (EXH - 3:20.43)
MEN'S TOP FINISHERS:
- 200 medley relay: Hayes, Hunter, Korstanje, Curtiss (first place - 1:25.38)
- 1,000 freestyle: Will Gallant (second place - 9:00.16)
- 200 freestyle: Luke Miller (first place - 1:34.78)
- 100 backstroke: Quintin McCarty (first place - 47.02)
- 100 breaststroke: Mason Hunter (first place - 54.37)
- 200 butterfly: Noah Bowers (first place - 1:45.66)
- 50 freestyle: David Curtiss (first place - 19.38)
- One-meter: Renato Calderaro (second place - 322.05)
- 100 freestyle: Quintin McCarty (first place - 43.43)
- 200 backstroke: Hunter Tapp (first place - 1:45.78)
- 200 breaststroke: Conall Monahan (first place - 2:00.01)
- 500 freestyle: Will Gallant (second place - 4:26.41)
- 100 butterfly: Aiden Hayes (first place - 47.70)
- Three-meter: Patrick O'Brien (first place - 331.95)
- 200 individual medley: Sam Hoover (EXH - 1:48.96)
- 400 freestyle relay: Curtiss, Piszczorowicz, McCarty, Miller (EXH - 2:52.52)
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