East Carolina University Split With Duke

The East Carolina swimming and diving teams split a dual meet with Duke Saturday afternoon with the Pirate men’s team posting a 178-117 victory, while the women’s team suffered its first loss of the year, 167-131.
 
The Lady Pirates (7-1) won their first seven dual meets of the season before suffering defeat today, while the men’s team improved to 6-2 in dual meet competition.
 
ECU won 11 events on the men’s side including one record setting performance from Thiago Cavalcanti. He set an ECU freshman record in the 1,000-yard freestyle with a time of 9:32.84, breaking the former record of 9:34 .04 set by Matt Walker in 2000.  
 
Sophomore Blake Briese and Roman Sandler won two events each. Briese captured first place in the 200-yard (1:42.99) and 500-yard freestyle (4:40.27), while Sandler placed first in the 100-yard (58.95) and 500-yard breaststroke (2:09.28).
 
Other first place finishers included: Greg Neville in the 100-yard breaststroke (52.56), Matthew Saccurato in the 200-yard butterfly (1:54.38), Jason Guzewich in the 50-yard freestyle (21.51), Andrew Stoker in the 100-yard butterfly (51.60), and Ryan Hunt on the one-meter diving board (282.30).
 
The women’s 400-yard medley relay team of Rebecca Perry, Stephanie Harper, Amanda Duncan and Jenna Stewart set a Minges pool record with a time of 3:50.84.
 
Stewart swept the sprint freestyle events with a first place finish in the 50-yard (24.58) and 100-yard (53.21) races.
 
Junior Alli Miller won the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 58.77, while Perry won the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 2:04.07.
 
Freshman Stephanie Harper captured first place in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:04.20.
 
East Carolina will conclude dual meet competition at home on Saturday, Feb. 2, with a tri-meet against Marshall, Chowan and Wingate.