Results

The University of Evansville Purple Aces men's swimming & diving team beat Mid-American Conference rival Ball State on Saturday afternoon by a final score of 179-109.
 
The Aces had an all around great performance from the men's squad as they got their first win of the season.
 
Evansville's top performer of the day was Cooper Bowen who finished first in the 1000-yard freestyle with a time of 10:00.82. Bowen also finished first in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:55.22. Bowen also finished first along with Ethan O'Rourke, Phil Stevenson and Ashton Bishop in the 400-yard freestyle relay with a time of 3:11.17.
 
Other notable performers for the Aces squad were Ethan O'Rourke who finished first in the 100-yard backstroke and the 200-yard backstroke with times of 52.97 and 1:57.01. Junior Ashton Bishop continued his stellar season by finishing first in the 50 & 100-yard freestyle races with times of 21.33 and 46.80.
 
Senior Mallet Reid finished first in the 1-meter diving heat with a score of 267.70, which was 23.40 points better than the second place finisher.
 
For Ball State the top swimmer of the day was Michael Oaks who finished first in the 200-yard freestyle and second in the 100-yard freestyle.
 
Coach Rickey Perkins was very proud of his team.
           
            " I was very pleased with the men's team, yesterday we drove to Missouri State and back and they displayed great resilience today. The squad was so excited to be home and to compete against Ball State.
 
This team has done an amazing job to bounce back and their drive has been fun to watch. It has been a tremendous season so far. Ball State has been a huge rival for us and now that we have beat them we can't get complacent. We have to keep our eyes on the big picture, it's nice to win but we can't get lose focus on the big picture, which is the MAC championships."
 
The Aces women's squad will visit Illinois State on Nov. 8 to take on the Redbirds. The team will swim in their next dual meet on Nov. 9 at Eastern Illinois.