Men’s, women’s squads keep win streak alive

The Panthers were definitely on the prowl Friday afternoon when they took down the visiting Jaguars from IUPU-Indianapolis.

The men and women claimed victory in their 10th dual meet of the season.

As trite as it may seem, head coach Raymond Padovan said he feels that the team is suffering from the semester break training and from practicing hard the past couple of weeks.

Not to mention, the most of the team seems to be nursing either a little cold or some sort of minute injury, but it has yet to effect the team in any way.

“As a group we are very, very tired,” Padovan said.

“We are kind of going to start easing up the later part of this week.

The men (10-0) remained undefeated with a score of 149.5-72.5 and never trailed once in the meet. the men took first or second in every event except the 1 meter. diving were Zach Miller placed third.

First place finishers were Tom Watson (1000-yard freestyle), Nic Cheviron (200 -500 freestyle), Josh Kercheval (200 IM -100 backstroke), Joe DeLuca (100 butterfly), Rich Walhgren (100 freestyle), Nick Croucher (100 backstroke) and Zach Miller (3-meter diving).

“I wasn’t disappointed (with times)” Padovan said. “Everybody was in the ball park this week.”

The women (8-2) grabbed their eighth straight victory with a 132-78 win over the Jaguars. Like the men’s team, the squad was never behind in total score and had either a first or second place finisher in every event except the 200 freestyle medley where the panther swam three exhibition teams and each finished with a time better than the winning time from IUPUI.

First-place finishers were Jordan Sherbrooke (100 Freestyle), Erin Lowe (200 – 500 Freestyle), Jessica Kaatz (200 IM – 100 Backstroke), Katie Herman (100 Backstroke), Angelina Arnold (1-3 meter diving) and Allison Kenny ( 50-100 Freestyle).

“They did pretty good,” Padovan said. “It was what I expected but everybody still seems a little tired.”

The Panthers are preparing for their second to last meet of the season when they travel to Indiana to swim and dive against Valparaiso University on Saturday.