Saint John's hosts Macalester for swimming events at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29, at the Warner Palaestra Pool and wraps up the dual with diving competition at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 30, in St. Paul. – Live Video (Friday) | Heat Sheets

MASKS REQUIRED: Per MIAC guidelines, all spectators and event staff must be masked at indoor athletic events, regardless of vaccination status.

A LOOK AT THE JOHNNIES: Saint John's won 14 of the 16 events en route to a 232-35 win at Hamline last 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 (Oct. 19) 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.

Augsburg Invitational (Sunday, Oct. 24)
SJU made it a clean sweep for the weekend with a win out of four teams at the Augsburg Invitational on Sunday (Oct. 24) at the University of Minnesota's Jean Freeman Aquatic Center in Minneapolis. The Johnnies posted 10 top-three finishes Sunday, including two individual wins from freshmen, to collect 455 points. Carthage (Wis.) was second (384.5), followed by Carleton (368.5) and St. Olaf (245).

Noble won the 100-yard freestyle (48.40) and took second in the 50-yard freestyle (21.83). Larson touched the wall first in the 1,000-yard freestyle (10:24.94) and placed second in the 500-yard freestyle (4:56.25).

Grabinski, like Saturday's performance, won both the 1- (235.30) and 3-meter (256.40) dives.

Junior Joe Koller (Savage, Minn./Shakopee) claimed second in the 100-yard backstroke (54.00) and third in the 200-yard backstroke (2:00.83), while sophomore Alex Heer (St. Paul, Minn./Cretin-Derham Hall) finished second in the 200-yard butterfly (2:04.31).

Kern collected third-place finishes in the 100- (49.37) and 200-yard (1:49.49) freestyles.

SJU's 200-yard medley relay (Koller, Dylan Fleischhacker, Jack Mehus, Kern) finished third (1:40.31).

TWO YEARS AGO: The Johnnies won 12 of 13 events en route to a 177-36 dual victory over Macalester the last time these two programs met on Nov. 2, 2019, in St. Paul. SJU swam uncontested in five events.

A pair of freshmen - now juniors - won two events on the afternoon. Beau Brinkman (Wayzata, Minn.) touched the wall first in the 50- (22.36) and 100-yard (49.49) freestyles, while Huber took first in the 200-yard backstroke (2:04.66) and 400-yard individual medley (4:28.82).

Friedrich Odermann '20 claimed first place in the 200-yard butterfly (2:10.63) and senior Steven Froehle (DuPont, Wash./Steilacoom) followed suit in the 200-yard freestyle (1:52.69). Junior Dylan Fleischhacker (Greenwald, Minn./Melrose Area) won the 200-yard breaststroke (2:22.40).

Grabinski won the 1-meter dive (288.60) and took second in the 3-meter (275.00).

SJU's 200-yard freestyle (1:38.53; Atkinson, Christian Pfau, Lemke, Connor Reed) and 200-yard medley (1:41.01; Huber, Fleischhacker, Odermann, Brinkman) relays took first against another quartet of Johnnies.

EARLY MIAC STANDINGS
50-Yard Freestyle
1. Liam Noble, 21.83
7. Zach Ruoff, 23.34

100-Yard Freestyle
1. Liam Noble, 48.40
2. Carter Larson, 48.89
3. Colby Kern, 49.37
7. Steven Froehle, 50.76
9. Ethan Huber, 50.98

200-Yard Freestyle
1. Colby Kern, 1:49.49
2. Connor Thayer, 1:50.52
4. Ethan Huber, 1:53.45
10. Rafael Rios, 2:07.18

500-Yard Freestyle
2. Carter Larson, 4:56.25
3. Connor Thayer, 5:08.47
7. Parker Scanlon, 5:25.72
9. Jack West, 5:29.82

1,000-Yard Freestyle
1. Carter Larson, 10:24.94
6. Parker Scanlon, 11:26.35
7. Jack West, 11:27.13
10. Henry Luetmer, 11:47.49

50-Yard Backstroke
2. Joe Koller, 25.31
4. Alex Heer, 26.26
7. Spencer Atkinson, 26.80
8. T.J. Klinkner, 27.21
10. Liam Noble, 27.37

100-Yard Backstroke
2. Joe Koller, 54.00
5. Liam Noble, 56.04
6. Spencer Atkinson, 56.41
7. Alex Heer, 57.17
8. T.J. Klinkner, 57.34
10. Ethan Huber, 57.89

200-Yard Backstroke
3. Joe Koller, 2:00.34
5. Ethan Huber, 2:07.09
7. T.J. Klinkner, 2:10.00

50-Yard Breaststroke
2. Dylan Fleischhacker, 29.67
3. Andrew East, 29.72
7. Jack Mehus, 30.33
8. Colby Kern, 30.68
10. Brogan O'Donnel, 30.91

100-Yard Breaststroke
2. Andrew East, 1:03.02
4. Dylan Fleischhacker, 1:04.07
6. Jack Mehus, 1:04.43
8. Ethan Huber, 1:05.35
9. Colby Kern, 1:05.48

200-Yard Breaststroke
6. Dylan Fleischhacker, 2:27.63
8. Rafael Rios, 2:34.41
10. Mark Spangler, 2:43.31

50-Yard Butterfly
1. Jack Mehus, 25.45
2. Alex Heer, 25.52
3. Colby Kern, 25.75
4. Liam Noble, 25.78
5. Jake Tschida, 25.81
8. Langston Phillion, 25.86
10. Andrew East, 26.26

100-Yard Butterfly
2. Langston Phillion, 55.34
3. Colby Kern, 55.38
4. Alex Heer, 55.40
5. Andrew East, 55.55
8. Liam Noble, 56.46
9. Jake Tschida, 56.53
10. Steven Froehle, 57.21

200-Yard Butterfly
2. Alex Heer, 2:04.31
4. Langston Phillion, 2:06.58
7. Jake Tschida, 2:25.12
8. Sakariye Siyad, 2:56.45

100-Yard Individual Medley
2. Jack Mehus, 56.95
4. Carter Larson, 58.09
5. Ethan Huber, 58.39
6. Joe Koller, 58.48
7. Andrew East, 58.71
8. Colby Kern, 58.77
9. Liam Noble, 58.83
10. Spencer Atkinson, 59.19

200-Yard Individual Medley
5. Jack Mehus, 2:08.23
8. Brogan O'Donnel, 2:11.27
10. Spencer Atkinson, 2:13.66

1-Meter Dive
1. Jack Grabinski, 235.30
2. Christian Pfau, 180.25
4. Henry Braun, 160.35
7. Sean Fisher, 72.55

3-Meter Dive
1. Jack Grabinski, 256.40
3. Christian Pfau, 167.85
5. Henry Braun, 129.05