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.: Ohio State Men 137, Miami (OH) 97

Columbus, OH , November 6th, 2005

The Ohio State men's swimming and diving team opened its season Friday in its new home - the Bill and Mae McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion - with a 137-97 win over Miami (Ohio). The team won 12 of 13 events with Joe Doyle, Matt Voelker and Wes Wieser each winning two individual events.

Doyle, a junior from Centerburg, Ohio (Centerburg), won the 200-yard freestyle and the 100-yard butterfly. In the butterfly event, Doyle recorded a lifetime-best time of 49.63. Voelker, a sophomore from Upper Arlington, Ohio (Upper Arlington), won the 50- and 100-yard freestyle, while diver Wieser, a freshman from Chesterfield, Mo. (Parkway Central), opened his first meet as a Buckeye with a double-win in the 1- and 3-meter springboard competition.

Felipe Travesso (Fr., Belo Horizonte, Brazil/Lawrence North) clocked a time of 57.60 to win the 100-yard breaststroke event. The 200-yard freestyle relay team of R.J. Lemyre (Jr., Columbus, Ohio/Upper Arlington), Gary Grant (Jr., Wood-Ridge, N.J./Bergen Catholic), Voelker and Mike Tomes (Sr., Cincinnati, Ohio/Anderson) hit the wall in 1:23.39.

Lemyre, Tiernan and Nate King (Jr., Youngstown, Ohio/Warren G. Harding) each recorded an individual win during the dual meet. Lemyre clocked a time of 49.99 in the 100-yard back while Tiernan out-reached the other competitors in the 1,000-yard freestyle with a time of 9:39.27. King won the 200-yard individual medley by one-tenth of a second, out-touching teammate Daniel Novak (So., Sao Paulo, Brazil/Foothill Knight) with a time of 1:53.49. The Buckeyes swept the 200-yard medley relay, with the team of Lemyre, Travesso, Doyle and Grant clocking in at 1:31.70.

"We were really excited for this meet," Bill Wadley, men's swimming coach, said. "The guys wanted to make this a memorable moment in their lives. We knew that we would be the first team to compete in the new pool, so we wanted to go fast and be very competitive. I think we did that tonight. We were very competitive within the team as well."

The Buckeyes will return to action next Friday at 5 p.m. against the Cincinnati Bearcats at the Bill and Mae McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion.