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Gold Completes Sweep in Men's Annual Scrimmage, 155-81
10/16/2001 12:00:00 AM | Men's Swimming
Oct. 16, 2001
MEET RESULTS
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PITTSBURGH-The Gold team dominated the annual Blue-Gold meet at Trees Pool on Oct. 12 by a score of 155-81, winning 12 of 13 events along the way.
Several Blue-Gold meet records were broken by members of the Gold team. In the 400 Medley Relay, Ken Shelhorse (Gaithersburg, Md./Damascus), Raymond Brush (Katy, Texas/Katy/Nebraska), Miah Heath (Estes Park, Colo./Estes Park) and Max von Bodungen (Malmo, Sweden/Borgarskolan) topped the old mark, set in 1997, by 1.2 seconds (3:26.66).
Eric Limkemann (New Haven, Ind./Woodlan) crushed the 6-year-old mark of Preston Hammontree in the 1000 Free with a time of 9:28.58. The old mark was 9:45.74 and Limkemann won Friday's race by almost 23 seconds over the Blue's Hannes Kohnke (Malmo, Sweden/Borgarskolan).
One of the team captains, Michael Wells (Downingtown, Pa./Downingtown), won both the diving events for the Gold, scoring 193.45 points in the 1-meter event and 123.30 on the 3-meter board.
von Bodungen picked up another victory for the Gold in the 200 Free, missing teammate Mike Grube's meet record by 0.23 seconds. Grube (Drexel Hill, Pa./Upper Darby) missed the meet due to injury and is out indefinitely. Heath did break one of Grube's meet records with a time of 21.12 in the 50 free, just five hundredths of a second faster than Grube swam in 1999.
Shelhorse broke Matt Brady's seven-year-old 200 IM record with a time of 1:54.50. Even second-place finisher Randy Gertenbach (El Centro, Calif./Paradise Valley) of the Blue team topped Brady's mark with a time of 1:55.23.
Senior Ryan Rahaeuser (Scottsdale, Ariz./Chaparral) got in on the record-breaking surge in taking the 200 Fly in a time of 1:54.19, just 0.57 seconds faster than the Blue's Gertenbach. Both times topped Adrian Figueroa's previous record set in 1998.
In one of the most tightly contested races of the afternoon, Shelhorse topped the Blue's Steve Siler (Chicago, Ill./Westmont) in the 200 Back. Both swimmers took turns in the lead but Shelhorse (1:50.21) edged Siler out by 0.21 seconds, establishing yet another meet record.
Gertenbach got the Blue team's only victory in the 200 Breast with a time of 2:09.36.
The men's swimming and diving team will have its first dual meet at home on Oct. 26 against St. Bonaventure. The team did compete at the Notre Dame Relays on Oct. 5 and won the event over six other schools.
