Kenyon’s men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams swept a double-double meet Saturday at Steen Aquatic Center.
Ania Axas and Jennah Fadely each won two events Saturday and steered the Kenyon College Ladies swimming and diving team to a double-dual home sweep, and the Kenyon College Lords swimming and diving team won 15 of 16 events and defeated both opponents.
The Ladies chalked up a 216-84 win over Case Western Reserve University and also recorded a 248-48 victory against Ohio Northern University.
Axas claimed her wins in the butterfly events, taking the 100-yard in 58.30 and the 200-yard in 2:07.07. Fadely logged her wins in the 200-yard freestyle (1:53.88) and the 200-yard breaststroke (2:19.15).
Crile Hart, who won the 200-yard backstroke (2:01.59), also swam with Kenyon’s winning 200-yard medley (1:46.07) and 200-yard freestyle (1:38.62) relay teams. She was joined in the medley by Kate Alexy, Ana Dunn and Emmie Mirus. In the freestyle, it was Hart, Mirus, Dunn and Racine Ross.
Early in the meet, Alexy won the 100-yard backstroke (59.34), just after Sarah Hoffman claimed the Ladies’ first individual event win of the day in the 1,000-yard freestyle (10:39.05).
In sprint freestyle, Sydney Geboy won the 50-yard (24.12) for the Ladies and Alexandra White won the 100-yard (52.32). Following those wins, Kira Bowling tackled another distance event and came out first in the 500-yard freestyle (5:10.45).
The Ladies’ two other event wins came from Sydney Buchman in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:08.11) and from Gabrielle Wei in the 400-yard individual medley (4:29.44).
In the Saturday afternoon double-dual, the Lords knocked off Case Western Reserve University by a score of 226-73 and also finished off Ohio Northern University, 239-51.
Of those 15 Kenyon event victories, Marcus Hong, Noah Hargrove, Nicholas Tong and Israel Zavaleta each claimed two. Hong won the 100-yard backstroke (50.00) and took first in the 100-yard butterfly (49.89). Hargrove won the 200-yard butterfly (1:52.23) and the 200-yard breaststroke (2:07.20). Tong took the 200-yard freestyle (1:44.33) and the 200-yard backstroke (1:53.94), while Zavaleta swept the diving events, winning the 1-meter with a score of 338.75 and the 3-meter with a score of 386.60.
Before and after his two individual wins, Hong swam a leg on Kenyon’s winning relay teams. He joined David Fitch, Aidan Clarkson and Takashi Kanazawa to win both the meet-opening 200-yard medley relay (1:31.13) and the meet-closing 200-yard freestyle relay (1:24.29).
In distance events, it was Bryan Fitzgerald and James Tracey who came through for Kenyon. Fitzgerald was fastest in the 1,000-yard freestyle (9:30.97) and Tracy won the 500-yard freestyle (4:45.66).
Other individual-event winners for Kenyon included Luis Weekes in the 100-yard breaststroke (56.91), Marko Krtinic in the 50-yard freestyle (21.11) and Liam Sweeney in the 100-yard freestyle (46.90).
