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Maize & Blue Races Past Buckeyes on Senior Night
1/27/2017 12:00:00 AM | Men's Swimming & Diving
Jan. 27, 2017
» The Wolverines won 11 of 16 events, getting two individual wins each from Chris Klein and Felix Auböck.
» Auböck had the race of the meet, out-touching Ohio State's Josh Fleagle by one one-hundredth-of-a-second in the 200-yard freestyle.
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Site: Ann Arbor, Mich. (Canham Natatorium)
Score: #9 Michigan 186, #17 Ohio State 114
Records: U-M (4-1, 2-1 Big Ten), OSU (9-1, 1-1 Big Ten)
Next U-M Event: Saturday, Feb. 4 -- at Michigan State (East Lansing, Mich.), Noon
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The No. 9-ranked University of Michigan men's swimming and diving team won 11 of 16 events -- getting two each from senior Chris Klein and freshman Felix Auböck -- in a 186-114 victory over No. 17 Ohio State on Senior Night on Friday (Jan. 27) at Canham Natatorium. The Wolverines have now won their last 20 dual meets with the Buckeyes.
Auböck, a freshman from Austria, provided the highlight of the meet for the men's side, out-touching Ohio State's Josh Fleagle by the slimmest of margins (one one-hundredth) to win the 200-yard freestyle (1:36.85). He later won the 500-yard freestyle (4:24.14), combining with junior PJ Ransford (4:25.32) and senior Cameron Stitt (4:27.19) on a 1-2-3 finish. Ransford won the 1,000-yard freestyle by nearly eight seconds earlier in the meet (9:01.10).
Klein made an impact from the first race, giving Michigan a lead in the opening 200-yard medley relay that it did not relinquish (1:27.31). The Ann Arbor native guided Michigan to a dominant 1-2-3-4 showing in the 200-yard breaststroke -- its best event of the night -- taking first (1:57.20) ahead of freshmen Jacob Montague (1:57.37), Charlie Swanson (2:01.45) and Tommy Cope (2:01.77). Klein also won the 200-yard IM (1:48.05) ahead of Swanson (1:48.38) and Montague (1:49.05).
The Wolverines showed its resiliency several times on Friday. After the Buckeyes won the 100-yard backstroke, Michigan responded with a 1-2-3 finish in the 100-yard breaststroke, highlighted by Montague (54.04), Klein (54.44) and Swanson (55.19). Ohio State later took the 100-yard freestyle, but Michigan again answered yet again with a 1-2-4-5 finish in the 200-yard backstroke, engineered by junior Tristan Sanders (1:45.72).
Other individual winners included junior Evan White in the 200-yard butterfly (1:46.84), junior Paul Powers in the 50-yard freestyle (19.80) and senior Vinny Tafuto in the 100-yard butterfly (47.45).
Two of the team's three divers picked up NCAA Zone Diving qualifying scores: freshman Jake Herremans in a third-place finish on three-meter (335.25), and sophomore Collin DeShaw in a fourth-place finish on one-meter (303.25).
Michigan finishes out the dual-meet slate next Saturday (Feb. 4), facing Michigan State in East Lansing. The meet will begin at noon.
Communications Contact: Brad Rudner
