Senior women’s swimmer Gayle Tanis’s second career win was one of the highlights in Eastern men’s and women’s swimming team victory over Valporaiso Saturday.

“I just felt really great throughout that event,” Tanis said.

Tanis’ 5:25.60 600-yard freestyle victory wasn’t the only highlight in the women’s 180-60 victory. Sophomore Paul Luttinan also won an event in 200 yard butterfly to help the Panther men outscore the Crusaders 150-54.

“(Luttinan) had a great 200-fly,” assistant coach Bill Yanney said. “He is becoming a solid contributor for us and should continue to improve next season.”

The Eastern men’s and women’s statistical dominance wasn’t an accurate picture of the event however. According to Yanney, the Panther’s were more focused on their times and Valpo was using one of its last meets of the season to race against themselves.

“They’ve had a very tough week of practice and we really came out and did an excellent job,” Yanney said.

The Panthers men and women established themselves early sweeping nearly every event.

“We’ve definitely stayed on the same wave that we did last week (against Millikin),” Yanney said. “We set a tone early and we received a great effort from everyone in the breast stroke.”

Men’s swimmer Frank Muchna had a season best in the 100/200 yard freestyle with a time of 1:49.51.

Tom Watson finished first in the 1000-yard freestyle with a time of 9:56.35, and the 600 yard freestyle with a time of 4:52.07. Rich Wahlgren finished first in the 100 yard freestyle with a time of 48:22, and Josh Kerchoval finished first with a time of 1:57.78 in the 200 yard freestyle.

Women’s swimmers Jordan Sheerbrooke finished first in the 200-yard freestyle with a time 1:58.58, and the 100 yard breast stroke with a time of 2:33.41. Allison Kenny finished first in 100-yard freestyle with a time of 54.92.

The Panthers have two events marked on their calender — the meet against the University of St. Louis and the Midwest Classic in Indianapolis which is nearly a month away.

The Saint Louis University men’s team is currently 9-2 and the women’s team is 9-0.

“Last time we went up against (St. Louis) we had a couple of people out due to injury,” Yanney said.

“Right now, we are at full strength and if we have a couple of things go our way I think we have a chance at beating them.”