Michigan
Georgia Tech
Michigan Cruises to Quad Meet Win at Georgia Tech
1/16/2016 12:00:00 AM | Men's Swimming & Diving
Jan. 16, 2016
» Senior Dylan Bosch picked up three NCAA "B" times, winning the 100-yard butterfly and 200-yard butterfly and taking second in the 200-yard IM.
» Sophomore and Gainesville, Georgia, native Paul Powers won the 50-yard freestyle (19.57).
Site: Atlanta, Ga. (Georgia Tech Aquatic Center)
Scores: Michigan 176, Indiana 118; Michigan 212, Duke 86; Michigan 212.5, Georgia Tech 85.5
Records: U-M (7-0, 4-0 Big Ten), IU (6-7, 1-1 Big Ten), Georgia Tech (5-4), Duke (7-2)
Next U-M Event: Saturday, Jan. 30 -- at Ohio State, vs. Buffalo, vs. West Virginia (Columbus, Ohio), 1 p.m.
ATLANTA, Ga. -- The No. 6-ranked University of Michigan men's swimming and diving team used great depth to run its dual-meet unbeaten streak to 48, defeating No. 11 Indiana (176-118), No. 22 Duke (212-86) and host Georgia Tech (212.5-85.5) on Saturday (Jan. 16) inside the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center. The Wolverines, now 74-4-1 in dual meets since the start of the 2007-08 season, have not lost a dual meet since November 2010.
Senior captain Dylan Bosch won a pair of events and claimed three NCAA "B" times on the afternoon. The South African won the 100-yard butterfly (48.04) and 200-yard butterfly (1:44.91) while also finishing second in the 200-yard individual medley (1:48.22). His training partner, sophomore Evan White, was right alongside him in two races, winning the 200-yard IM (1:47.99) and taking second in the 200-yard butterfly (1:46.53). He was also fourth in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:02.98).
Michigan's depth was on display all afternoon, particularly in the distance events. Senior Anders Lie Nielsen won the 500-yard freestyle (4:25.34), and he was followed by sophomore PJ Ransford in second (4:28.52), junior Cameron Stitt in fourth (4:29.84) and sophomore Ian Rainey in fifth (4:30.08). Ransford won the 1,000-yard freestyle earlier in the meet (9:10.25), ahead of Stitt (second, 9:15.95) and Rainey (fourth, 9:16.60).
"It was a tough competition, but I think our depth was what helped us win this meet," said head coach Mike Bottom. "If we didn't win an event, we had guys score points that helped close the gap, and that was really important today."
The Wolverines went 1-2 in the 50-yard freestyle, with sophomore and native Georgian Paul Powers touching first with a very solid in-season time of 19.57. He was followed by Jason Chen in second (20.03), as the junior continues to emerge as one of the team's top sprinters in his junior season. U-M also went 1-3-4 in the 200-yard backstroke, led by sophomore Tristan Sanders (1:45.45), senior/junior Luke Papendick (1:47.65) and graduate student Kyle Dudzinski (1:49.14). Sanders also took second in the 100-yard backstroke (48.76).
Michigan and Indiana battled it out in the 100- and 200-yard freestyles. In a matchup of NCAA All-Americans from last year, Nielsen took second to Indiana's Blake Pieroni in the 200-yard freestyle (1:35.85 to 1:35.91), though U-M all but cancelled out the point difference with a third-place finish from senior Peter Brumm (1:37.31) and a fourth-place finish from Jack Mangan (1:38.90). The top six finishers in the 100-yard freestyle came from the two schools, with U-M taking second (Chen -- 44.65), third (Nielsen -- 44.75) and fifth (Powers -- 44.81).
Junior Chris Klein led the team in the breaststrokes, finishing third in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:00.64) and fifth in the 100-yard breaststroke (55.64).
Michigan also won both relays on the afternoon. The 200-yard medley relay team was in third at the halfway point until a big 21.16 split on the butterfly leg by fifth-year senior Jeremy Raisky gave the team enough cushion to hold off Duke for the win (1:27.89). The 400-yard freestyle relay team of Powers, Chen, senior Peter Brumm and Nielsen touched the wall at 2:58.60 to end the meet.
In the diving well, freshman Collin DeShaw took fourth on one-meter (275.70) and fifth on three-meter (292.70).
"We'll keep working on the details," Bottom said. "Nobody is perfect. You don't have to do everything right. But if you can execute at a high level, you'll find things to improve on the next time you compete. We're going to keep getting better, and that's what our message was after the meet today."
Michigan returns to dual-meet action in two weeks (Saturday, Jan. 30) when it faces Ohio State, Buffalo and West Virginia in a combined men's and women's quad meet in Columbus, Ohio. The meet is slated to begin at 1 p.m.
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