Two individual titles and a come-from-behind relay win extended the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps lead atop the standings through Day Two at the SCIAC Swimming & Diving Championship.
Championship Central
Day One Recap
Day Two Results
CMS stretched out to 417 points behind individual victories by rookie
Kenny Eckel and
Lucas Lang in addition to the champion 200-yard Freestyle Relay. Pomona-Pitzer ranks second with 264 points, followed by Chapman University with 211, Occidental College in fourth with 139 and Caltech in fifth (134). The University of Redlands is sixth with 120 points, California Lutheran University (113), Whittier (95) and the University of La Verne (56).
Pomona-Pitzer’s
Casey Jacobs entered the day with a seed time well below the meet record and promptly broke it in the morning preliminaries before lowering it again at the evening finals, where he clocked a 20.14.
Lang reclaimed the 500 Free title previously won in 2023, finishing just behind the SCIAC record set last year with a 4:25.13. Pomona-Pitzer’s
Joe Dienstag climbed onto the podium in second place from entering the meet as the fourth seed, with Whittier’s
Thomas Langlois holding on for bronze after notching the top seed and best time in the prelims. Eckel rallied to win the 200 IM in a first career championship swim despite touching last in the entire heat after the opening butterfly leg, catching up midway through the breaststroke and throwing down a 25.79 final split to clock a 1:49.14. Last year’s Newcomer of the Year,
Kyle Huang (Pomona-Pitzer), took runner-up honors ahead of
Spencer Merodio who touched third as one of seven CMS scorers in the event. Fellow Stag
Dylan Krueger also made the podium for the Stags in the 50 Free, finishing ahead of Chapman’s
Simon Jacobs in the third.
Jeremy Tan,
Sean Su,
Theodore Johnson and Krueger capped the night with a thrilling 1:20.90 comeback to take first over Pomona-Pitzer and Chapman.
The Day Three events that will be contested are the 100 Fly, 400 IM, 200 Free, 100 Breast and 100 Back in the prelims with the men’s 3m the last diving event to be contested and the 400 Medley Relay to conclude the evening finals.
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