Results

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Saint John's swimming and diving won 14 of the 16 events en route to a 232-35 win at Hamline on Saturday, Oct. 23, in St. Paul.

Although the meet was Hamline's invitational, only the host Pipers squared off against SJU on the men's side.

Four Johnnies won multiple individual events on the afternoon. Junior Ethan Huber (Mitchell, S.D.) took first in the 50-yard freestyle (22.88) and 100-yard breaststroke (2:21.04), and junior Jack Grabinski (Sauk Rapids, Minn./Sauk Rapids-Rice) made his season debut and swept both the 1- (259.65) and 3-meter (271.55) dives.

Freshman Colby Kern (Delano, Minn.), the reigning MIAC Men's Swimming Athlete of the Week, took over right where he left off with wins in the 50-yard backstroke (26.37) and 500-yard freestyle (5:14.76). Freshman Liam Noble (Plymouth, Minn./Benilde-St. Margaret's) touched the wall first in the the 100- (48.86) and 200-yard (1:51.21) freestyles.

Four other Johnnies collected individual wins:

-Freshman Andrew East (Minneapolis, Minn./South) in the 50-yard butterfly (25.29);
-Junior Dylan Fleischhacker (Greenwald, Minn./Melrose Area) in the 50-yard breaststroke (29.31);
-Freshman Carter Larson (Sartell, Minn./Sartell-St. Stephen) in the 200-yard backstroke (2:12.38);
-Junior Jack Mehus (Fargo, N.D./South) in the 1,000-yard freestyle (11:26.43).

SJU's 200-yard freestyle relay (1:28.21; Kern, T.J. Klinkner, Noble, Larson) and 200-yard medley relay (1:40.98; Joe Koller, Mehus, Huber, Beau Brinkman) claimed first place. 

The Johnnies compete at the Augsburg Invitational at noon tomorrow (Sunday, Oct. 24) at the University of Minnesota's Jean Freeman Aquatic Center in Minneapolis.