The Eastern Illinois men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams left Indianapolis with blow out victories over the Jaguars from IUPU- Indianapolis Thursday night and celebrated along the ride home and a good dinner.

The men (8-0) keep their winning steak alive, with a 194-104 trouncing of IUPUI, as they head into the semester break.

The victory was anchored with first place finishes by Josh Kercheval (both backstroke events, 200 yard individual medley) Tom Watson (1000 and 500 yard freestyle), Joe DeLuca (100 yard butterfly), and Nic Cheviron (200 yd freestyle).

“(IUPUI) didn’t come out strong,” Panther swimming coach Raymond Padovan said. “It was like (IUPUI) didn’t even try.”

Padovan said the men’s team thought the meet would be a more competitive meet than when they entered the water on Thursday night because IUPUI is a conference opponent and the teams meet twice this season.

“I don’t know what they did,” Padovan said. “… We really swam well … the tone was set early in the meet.”

The women (6-2) won even more convincingly as they swam away with a 214-84, lambasting of IUPUI in a meet that seemed won before they were even off of the starting blocks.

“We were kind of expecting [to win],” Padovan said. “We thought we could win”

The women are still enjoying their six meet win streak as they, too, finish the semester with a win.

This week’s “Top Cat,” Allison Kenny kept her record unblemished with victories in the 50, 100 and 200 freestyle events and Beth Rhodes won both butterfly events and the 200-yard backstroke.

The team will be traveling to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., over the semester break to train in the water of the Atlantic Ocean. They will depart on Dec. 26 and will be returning the Sunday before the semester begins.