HOLLAND, Mich. – The St. Cloud State Men’s Swim & Dive team earned one top-three finish and three NCAA B-cut times on the third day of competition at the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Championships on Sunday in Holland, Mich. In the team standings, the Huskies sits in fourth place with 355.5 points.
Junior Lance Godard (Lee’s Summit, Mo.) produced the lone podium finish of the day for the Huskies, finishing second in the 200-yard butterfly with an NCAA B-cut time of 1:46.08. Junior Piotr Kowalczyk (Warsaw, Poland) and sophomore Haydn Vein (Fargo, N.D.) also swam NCAA B-cut times, finishing fourth in the 100-yard backstroke at 48.05 and fifth in the 100-yard breaststroke at 54.57, respectively.
DAY 3 TEAM SCORES
Men: 1. Grand Valley State, 654 // 2. Wayne State, 492 // 3. Northern Michigan, 406 // 4. St. Cloud State, 355.5 // 5. Saginaw Valley State, 320 // 6. Davenport, 239 // 7. Augustana, 203.5 // 8. Lake Superior State, 112
PRELIMS RESULTS
500-Yard Freestyle: 19. Bernardo Mier y Teran, 4:38.64 // 20. Ben Thompson, 4:41.85
100-Yard Backstroke: 4. Piotr Kowalczyk, 48.00q (NCAA B-cut) // 8. Dylan Nelson, 49.07q // 9. Reid Tigges, 49.08q // 10. Justin Rowles, 49.14q // 13. Matt Pietsch, 49.52q // 21. Trevor Graham, 51.29 // 27. Henry Belik, 51.89 // 28. Mason Kuepers, 52.01
100-Yard Breaststroke: 3. Haydn Vein, 54.47q (NCAA B-cut) // 7. Marcus Walker, 55.60q // 19. Avery Morton, 57.29
200-Yard Butterfly: 1. Lance Godard, 1:47.51q (NCAA B-cut) // 16. Adan Fukui, 1:55.05q
3-Meter Diving: 8. Jimmy Nord, 466.30q (NCAA B-cut) // 13. Cole Peipho, 437.05q
FINALS RESULTS
100-Yard Backstroke: 4. Piotr Kowalczyk, 48.05 (NCAA B-cut) // 8. Dylan Nelson, 48.86 // 9. Justin Rowles, 49.35 // 11. Matt Pietsch, 49.54 // 12. Reid Tigges, 49.56
100-Yard Breaststroke: 5. Haydn Vein, 54.57 (NCAA B-cut) // 7. Marcus Walker, 55.61
200-Yard Butterfly: 2. Lance Godard, 1:46.08 (NCAA B-cut) // 14. Adan Fukui, 1:53.10
3-Meter Diving: 7. Jimmy Nord, 455.75 // 12. Cole Piepho, 441.45
800-Yard Freestyle Relay: 4. Matt Pietsch, Cade Rosenwald, Ben Thompson, Avery Morton, 6:38.13
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