Full Men's Results vs. SIU & Missouri State
Full Women's MVC Showcase Results

CARBONDALE, Ill. – University of Evansville junior Alon Baer (Gesher HaZiv, Israel) led the men's swimming & diving team with another individual victory Saturday in the 200-Yard Breaststroke, while the UE women's team posted four podium finishes, as the Purple Aces wrapped up a weekend of competition in Carbondale, Illinois.

On the men's side, Baer led UE in a triangular meet with Southern Illinois and Missouri State with a victory in the 200 Breast with a time of 2:05.61, winning by over a second.  The UE men's 400 Free Relay Team also ended the meet on a high note with a second-place finish, as senior Riccardo Di Domenico (Johannesburg, South Africa) teamed up with sophomores Daniel Santos Lopez (Madrid, Spain), Jakob Grundbacher (Thalwil, Switzerland) and Benjamin Hasanovic (Innsburck, Austria) to post a time of 3:06.39.

UE also posted a fourth-place finish in the 200-Yard Medley Relay to start the day, as Baer, Di Domenico, Santos Lopez, and Hasanovic posted a time of 1:33.43.  Junior Jackson Caudill (Mount Sterling, Ky./Montgomery County) also picked up a fourth-place finish in a hotly-contested 500-Yard Freestyle event with a time of 4:42.37.  Sophomore Patrik Vilbergsson (Kopavogur, Iceland) finished just a second and a half behind Caudill (4:43.89) in the same event, but placed seventh.

Vilbergsson placed fifth in the 200-Yard Backstroke, posting UE's top time with a mark of 1:53.25.  Fellow sophomore Carlos Souto (A Coruna, Spain) also placed fifth in the 200 Breast (2:09.03) and was UE's top finisher in the 200 IM (1:58.59), while Di Domenico was UE's top finisher in the 100-Yard Freestyle with a fifth-place time of 46.40.  Meanwhile, senior Griffin Hammett (Loganville, Ga./Loganville) posted UE's top finish in the 200 Fly (1:58.39).

On the women's side, senior Sarah Jahns (Lilburn, Ga./Parkview) placed second in the 200-Yard Backstroke with a time of 2:06.17.  Junior diver Madison Rollett (Evansville, Ind./Reitz) also placed second in the one-meter diving competition, as she was edged out by just 0.15 points with a score of 2:13.05.  Sophomore Sveva Brugnoli (Rome, Italy) posted a pair of podium finishes by placing third in the 200-Yard IM with a time of 2:08.69, and also placing third in the 200-Yard Medley Relay with teammates Iryna Tsesiul (Minsk, Belarus), Sage Moore (Lexington, Ohio/Lexington) and Maya Cunningham (Yakima, Wash./Eisenhower) with a time of 1:48.39.

Brugnoli, Tsesiul, Cunningham and Jahns teamed up to place fourth in the 400-Yard Freestyle Relay with a mark of 3:40.21.  Cunningham also placed fourth in the 200 Fly (2:06.18), while Jahns was UE's top finisher in the 500 Free with a fourth-place time of 5:16.04.  Sophomore Mari Müller (Zurich, Switzerland) placed fifth in the 200-Yard Breaststroke in a time of 2:27.33, with Moore hot on her heels with a time of 2:29.96.  Senior Sonsoles Aguayo (Jerez, Spain) also posted UE's best time in the 100-Yard Freestyle with a time of 55.50.

"We had a lot of gutsy swims today, as there was not a lot of rest from yesterday, and this is the first multi-day meet we have competed in this year," said UE head coach Stuart Wilson.  "Overall, I saw a lot of positives this weekend.  We faced some very good competition this weekend, and we had people step up."

As a team, the UE women placed fourth in the MVC Showcase event.  The UE men, meanwhile, fell in the triangular meet to SIU (239-100) and Missouri State (240.50-108.50), although those teams finished second and third respectively in the Mid-American Conference last season.

UE will be off next weekend, before returning to action next on November 5 by hosting Illinois State and Eastern Illinois in a meet at the Deaconess Aquatic Center in Evansville.  That meet begins at 1 p.m.