Badgers close conference showdown on a high note

Saturday, November 4

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Michigan, Minnesota, Penn State

Swimmer at the Red-White Intrasquad scrimmage, 2017

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Badgers close conference showdown on a high note

November 04, 2017 | Men's Swimming & Diving, Women's Swimming & Diving

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Wisconsin scores wins over Penn State in quad dual with Big Ten foes

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MINNEAPOLIS – The Wisconsin swimming and diving team wrapped up its quad dual meet vs. Minnesota, Penn State and Michigan in style Saturday, claiming three victories to go along with a number of outstanding individual performances.

Sophomore Beata Nelson added to her fantastic Friday performance with wins in the 200-yard backstroke (1 minute, 55.06 seconds) and the 100 butterfly (53.95) on Saturday.

Nelson also was part of UW's victorious 200 medley relay squad, along with Jess Unicomb, Marissa Berg and Emmy Sehmann (1:39.88). The fearsome foursome has won the event in each of Wisconsin's four meets this season.

Wisconsin head coach Whitney Hite has high hopes for the quartet.

"It's one of our better relays, and considering who we've competed against, they have a real shot of doing some special things in conference and at NCAAs," he said. "They'll just keep getting faster, which is exciting."

On the men's side, the Badgers dominated the 200 backstroke. Senior Todd McCarthy won the race with a time of 1:47.01, and was followed closely by Cam Tysoe in second place (1:47.73), freshman Matt Novinski in fourth (1:48.87) and Justin Temprano in fifth (1:48.94).

"They did a great job today," Hite said. "Todd especially was great today. We've been waiting for it, but it was well worth the wait. I'm proud of the way he competed. He's just doing what he's capable of."

Wisconsin claimed team wins over Penn State (198.5-154.5, men; 215-138, women), but fell to Michigan (266-87, men; 235-118, women) and Minnesota (216-137, men; 191.5-161.5, women).

"This was really positive for us," Hite said. "Minnesota has great diving, and our divers took on that challenge and competed really well. And overall, we competed all day and put together our best overall meet yet.

"What we're doing is working. We're working really hard. This meet should give us some motivation moving forward to continue to put in the work."

Notable

• Sehmann (23.16) scored an individual win in the women's 50 freestyle, with Unicomb (23.29) finishing fourth.

• Abby Jagdfeld, Unicomb, Marissa Berg and Sehmann clocked in at 3:21.95, good enough for a second-place finish in the women's 400 free relay.

• Senior Victor Goicoechea took third in the men's 1000 freestyle (9:20.86).

• Junior Maddie Tew finished fourth in the women's 1000 free with a time of 10:07.10.

• Megan Doty (55.45), Ari Saghafi (56.03) and Alex Reddington (56.09) finished fourth, fifth and sixth, respectively, in the women's 200 backstroke.

• Doty took fifth in the women's 400 IM (4.27.59).

• Sophomore Cooper Hodge finished fifth in the men's 400 IM (3:50.15).

• Jon Salomon worked his way to a fifth-place finish in the men's 50 free (20.85).

Up Next

Wisconsin's divers will head back to Minneapolis for the three-day Minnesota Diving Invitational, which gets rolling on Nov. 9. The swimmers will head to Green Bay for a dual meet on Nov. 10 before traveling south to Evanston, Illinois, for a matchup with Northwestern on Nov. 11.