After the second night of swimming at the three-day Miami Invitational the Denison University men's swimmers are in fifth place with 630 points. They are just 25 points behind third-place Oakland University. Host, Miami, sits in second-place with 788 points and Emory University leads the event with 914 points.
At SUNY-Fredonia, DU is in fifth place through four events after totaling 92 points. The Fredonia Invitational will continue through Sunday while the Miami Invitational will conclude on Saturday evening.
In Oxford, the best performance of the night came in the 100 backstroke where five DU swimmers finished in the top-14 in the overall standings. The group was led by Michael DeSantis (Beverly Hills, Mich./Groves) who placed third in the event with a time of 50.88 seconds. Following in fourth place was sophomore Quinn Bartlett (Berwyn, Pa./Conestoga) who touched in 51.23. In eighth place, Mike Barczak (Beverly Hills, Mich./Brother Rice) turned in a time of 51.86 seconds and senior Kyle Chabot (Washington, Mich./Stoney Creek) locked up ninth place in 52.42. Coming in 14th with a time of 52.28 was Sean Chabot (Washington, Mich./Stoney Creek). All five times met the NCAA Division III provisional qualifying standard.
In the 100 breaststroke, Jake Lewing (Yardley, Pa./Pennsbury) placed third in 57.35. Also competing in the B-final of the 100 breaststroke was Andrew Krawchyk (Severna Park, Md./East Chapel Hill[N.C.]), Alex Wood (Birmingham, Mich./Seaholm) and Brad Ratliff (Eldersburg, Md./Century) who placed 10th, 15th and 17th, respectively. Lewing's time of 57.35 was an NCAA 'B' cut time.
The 200 freestyle saw Dan Thurston (Ann Arbor, Mich./Huron) and Al Weik (Lebanon, Pa./Cedar Creek) place 13th and 15th with both individuals logging NCAA provisional times of 1:42.48 and 1:48.79, respectively.
In the 400 IM both Thurston and Weik were once again leading the Big Red. Thurston took eighth with a time of 4:05.74 and Weik took 12th in 4:07.37.
In the 200 free relay, Joe Katich (Toledo, Ohio/St. Francis De Sales), Barczak, Bartlett and Spencer Fronk (Cherry Hills Village, Colo./Cherry Creek) took fifth-place in 1:24.87. In the final event of the night, the 400 medley relay, the Big Red were dealt a blow when their team was disqualified due to an early start.
In Fredonia, N.Y., Denison's 800 freestyle relay team of Brandon Hullings (Ewing, N.J./The Pennington School), Andrew Quinn (Naperville, Ill./Neuqua Valley), Eric Fischer (Niwot, Colo./Niwot), and Kevin Naud (Ann Arbor, Mich./Pioneer) posted a second-place finish and a time of 7:12.19.
Quinn also picked up a third-place finish in the 400 individual medley and a time of 4:26.70 and Pat Lombardi (Phoenix, Ariz./Desert Vista) touched in 22.12 seconds in the 50 freestyle which was good enough for a second-place finish.
