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Auburn and UNC Cut up Twin Meet As Ladies’s Meet Comes Down To The Ultimate Relay

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Auburn vs. UNC

  • October 25, 2024
  • Chapel Hill, NC
  • 25 Yards (SCY)
  • Scores
    • Ladies: #17 Auburn, 154 — #17 UNC, 146
    • Males: NR UNC, 169 — #12 Auburn, 131
  • Full Outcomes

Ladies’s Recap

The Auburn and UNC girls tied at #17 in our September energy rankings and the meet between the Tigers and the Tar Heels got here all the way down to the ultimate relay.

Auburn’s relays have been their tentpole for the previous couple of seasons and that’s held sturdy—particularly for the ladies—within the early going of the season as they claimed the opening 200 medley relay to get the meet began sturdy, then received the 400 freestyle relay to clinch the victory.

Within the 200 medley relay, Auburn’s Lora Komoroczy (23.87), Stasya Makarova (26.87), Abigail Gibbons (23.50), and Lexie Mulvihill (21.77) swam a season-best 1:36.01, defeating UNC’s Greer Pattison (23.96), Skyler Smith (26.74), Elizabeth Sowards (23.84), and Georgia Nel (21.84) by .37 seconds to open the swimming portion of the meet.

Julia Strojnowska gave Auburn a win within the very subsequent race, the 1000 freestyle, swimming a 9:47.98 to win and climb up this system’s all-time rankings to ninth. Strojnowska, a freshman from Canada, swept the space races with a 4:45.70 within the 500 freestyle.

A number of freshmen had been key for Auburn on this win. Not solely did Stroknowksa win two occasions, however Komoroczy, one other worldwide freshman, picked up the win within the 100 backstroke, swimming 51.83 to maneuver as much as eighth-fastest in Auburn historical past. Later, she received the 100 butterfly as effectively, swimming 52.50. Audrey Crawford adopted her three PBs on the SMU Basic by reducing her bests within the 100/200 breast for the second time this season in 1:01.95/2:10.85. She received the 200 breast and moved to tenth-fastest in Auburn historical past.

Nel gave the Tar Heels their first win within the 200 freestyle, coming from behind on the ultimate 50 yards to get her hand on the wall in entrance of Polina Nevmovenko, 1:45.46 to 1:45.62. Later, she beat Nevmovenko once more within the 100 freestyle, swimming 48.77. Each swims close to her lifetime bests (1:45.06/48.69), set in March.

Nel was a few half second off her lifetime greatest from the 2024 NCAA Championships. Later, she beat Nevmovenko once more within the 100 freestyle, swimming 48.77

Smith received the 100 breaststroke for the Tar Heels (59.22), then Mary Macaulay and Taylor Bloom went 1-2 within the 200 fly, swimming 1:56.98 and 1:58.29. Macaulay added one other occasion win within the 200 IM. She swam 1:59.58 and was the one swimmer within the subject to interrupt the two:00 mark.

At different meets within the league this weekend, we’ve seen groups go on lengthy runs, successful 4 or 5 occasions in a row. That didn’t occur at this meet and neither had been there a variety of 1-2 finishes or podium sweeps, making the lower-place finishes all of the extra essential.

It got here all the way down to the ultimate relay, the place Nevmovenko (48.91), Lisa Klevanovich (48.56), Kate Murray (48.85), and Mulvihill (48.29) got here by means of for the Tigers, stopping the clock at a season-best 3:14.61 to complete .39 seconds forward of the Tar Heels and win the meet.

Males’s Meet

The lads’s meet was extra lopsided, because the unranked UNC males beat No. 12 Auburn by 38 factors.

UNC acquired the ball rolling within the 200 medley relay, as Walker Davis (21.34), Xavier Ruiz (23.99), Boyd Poelke (20.24), and Louis Dramm (18.73) mixed for a 1:24.30 to win. After Auburn’s Mason Mathias received the 1000 freestyle, UNC acquired proper again into the win column within the 200 freestyle, going 1-2 with Canadian Olympian Patrick Hussey (1:35.26) and Louis Dramm (1:35.66).

Nate Stoffle and UNC’s Davis went out collectively, flipping in 22.63 on the opening 50 yards of the 100 backstroke. Stoffle cut up 23.28 on the again half of the 100 backstroke, pulling away to win in 46.01. Davis and JT Schmid, one in every of three BOTR recruits UNC welcomed this season, went 2-3, then UNC swept the 100 breaststroke podium with Ben Delmar (52.75), Ruiz (52.98), and Carter Freudenstein (54.60).

After Seb Lunak received the 200 fly for UNC (1:43.10), Kalle Makinen acquired Auburn again within the win column, sweeping the dash freestyles with season-bests of 19.34/43.01 on both facet of the break. PJ Foy took second in 19.59 and Auburn’s Logan Tirheimer broke 20 seconds for the primary time this season for third (19.91).

Stoffle and Delmar accomplished their sweep of the backstroke and breaststroke occasions by successful their respective 200 of stroke decisively; Stoffle swam 1:41.94, then Delmar logged 1:54.03 within the breaststroke. UNC acquired one other podium sweep within the 100 fly, underlining their energy within the self-discipline this season. Poelke led that sweep (46.41) as he, Foy (46.50), and Lunak (46.51) had been separated by .10 seconds.

Dramm closed out the person portion of the meet with a win within the 200 IM (1:44.13), then UNC got here from behind to win the 400 freestyle relay to place an exclamation level on their meet. Makinen and Ryan Husband gave the Tigers a lead on the midway level which they maintained by means of the ultimate trade, however Lunak closed in 43.75, pulling forward to present the Tar Heels the win in 2:54.12.

Up Subsequent

Hosts UNC had a fast turnaround as they welcomed South Carolina for a cross-border matchup on Oct. 26. Auburn is off till the tip of November, after they head to the Georgia Tech Invite.



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