WATERVILLE, Maine -- The No. 24 nationally ranked Bates men's swimming and diving team broke a pair of school records on their way to capturing their second straight CBB Championship Saturday afternoon in a dominating performance at the Harold Alfond Athletics and Recreation Center.
The Bobcats outscored their rivals Bowdoin and Colby by counts of 185-86 and 167-104 respectively.
Meet Highlights
- The Bates 200-yard freestyle relay team of senior captain Marrich Somridhivej (South Windsor, Conn.), senior captain Max Cory (Dublin, Calif.), senior Nate Pierce (Fairfield, Maine), and junior John Weigel (Iowa City, Iowa) broke the school record and won the event with their time of 1:20.02.
- Somridhivej broke his own school record in the 200-yard breaststroke with his winning time of 1:59.99, leading a 1-2 Bates finish in the event as sophomore Nate Oppenheim (Easton, Conn.) took second in 2:03.03.
- The Bates 200-yard medley relay team of Weigel, Somridhivej, Oppenheim, and Cory won their race in 1:27.26, a mark that ranks third in all of NCAA Division III this season.
- Weigel won the 200-yard freestyle in 1:40.33.
- Junior Tim Johnson (Brewster, Mass.) won the 100-yard backstroke in 49.70 seconds and the 200-yard backstroke in 1:52.19.
- Somridhivej led a 1-2-3-4 Bates finish in the 100-yard breaststroke with his winning time of 53.20 seconds.
- Cory won the 50-yard freestyle in 20 seconds and the 100-yard freestyle in 44.42 seconds.
- Senior Vova Sosnovskii (St. Petersburg, Russia) won 1-meter diving with 123.90 points and 3-meter diving with 100.42 points.
- Oppenheim led a 1-2 Bates finish in the 200-yard IM with a winning time of 1:51.73. Johnson was the runner-up in 1:55.52.
The Bates men's swimming and diving team is back in action Feb. 19-22 when they return to Waterville for the NESCAC Championships.
