ResultsPORTLAND – The Pacific men's and women's swim teams head into the Northwest Conference Championship with a pair of team victories as the men topped Lewis & Clark 108-88 and the women won 128- 74 at the Zehntbauer Swimming Pavilion on Saturday.
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The Pacific men finish the dual season with back-to-back wins and a 3-5 overall record, while posting a 2-5 mark in NWC action. The women wrap the dual season with a 4-3 conference record having won five straight duals to finish 5-3 overall.
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Pacific will return to the pool at the Osborn Aquatic Center in Corvallis, Ore., on Feb. 13 for the beginning of the NWC Championships.
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MEN: Pacific 108, Lewis & Clark 88
The Boxers won their second-straight NWC dual meet on Saturday thanks to victories in seven individual events by the group of
Raymond Miller (Fr., Portland, Ore.),
Charles Morse (So., Forest Grove, Ore.),
Jack Lloyd (Jr., Portland, Ore.) and
Michael Sakai (Fr., Honolulu, Hawaii).
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After finishing a little less than a second short of the Pioneers in the 200-yard medley relay, Miller outswam three Lewis & Clark competitors in the 1000-yard freestyle for a victory of over nine seconds.
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Miller's teammates Morse and
Patrick Daniels (So., Salem, Ore.) finished one-two in the 200-yard freestyle, respectively, earning Pacific 13 team points.
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Lloyd continued his strong junior season with a victory in the 50-yard freestyle by over a full second. Two events after Lloyd's first individual victory, Miller secured his second of the afternoon with a 53.84 first place finish in the 100-yard butterfly.
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The 100-yard freestyle saw Lloyd win with a time of 48.41.
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In a display of Pacific's freestyle strength, Morse out touched Lewis & Clark's Trevor Schapiro in the 500-yard freestyle, before Sakai wrapped up individual competition for the Boxers with a win in the 100-yard breaststroke.
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Pacific's afternoon ended with a victory in the 200-yard freestyle relay by Miller,
Dylan Tohl (Fr., Tillamook, Ore.),
Derek Dunn (Fr., Springfield, Ore.) and
Spencer Chandler (Sr., Weiser, Idaho).
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WOMEN: Pacific 128, Lewis & Clark 74
Pacific won its fifth-straight dual with a 128-74 victory at Lewis & Clark, as
Stacie Struble (Sr., Albany Ore.) joined
Katie Porter (Sr., McMinnville, Ore.),
Rachel Webster (So., Normandy Park, Wash.) and
Amanda Clark (Sr., Olympia, Wash.) as individual winners for Pacific.
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The Pacific relay side of
Janae Sargent (Jr., Redding, Calif.), Webster, Struble and
Colleen Murphy (Fr., Valdez, Alaska) cruised to victory in the 200-yard medley relay, opening the afternoon's meet with a victory of nearly 10 seconds.
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Clark was the first individual winner for Pacific as she won the 1000-yard freestyle by over a minute.
Melissa Lund (Sr., Roseburg, Ore.) finished third in the opening individual event of the day.
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The 50-yard freestyle saw Porter win by nearly two seconds, before Webster earned a near three-second victory in the 200-yard individual medley.
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Struble continued the strong afternoon for Pacific with a victory in the 100-yard butterfly, which saw
Amber Chase (Sr., Tigard, Ore.) post a fourth place finish.
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Porter cruised to a victory of over four seconds in the 100-yard freestyle, followed by Murphy's second place finish.
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Clark picked up a 24-second victory in the 500-yard freestyle, while Lund and
Katie Tougas (Jr., Colorado Springs, Colo.) finished third and fourth, respectively.
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The second victory of the day for Struble came in the 100-yard breaststroke, as Struble finished first ahead of
Kayla Knock's (Fr., Colorado Springs, Colo.) second place finish.
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Pacific finished the day with a victory in the 200-yard freestyle relay by the group of Clark, Chase, Webster and Porter.