No. 10 Stanford left little doubt during Friday’s Pac-12 Conference dual meet at No. 14 Arizona while picking up a 160-101 win at Hillenbrand Aquatic Center. The Cardinal men’s swimming and diving team won nine of 14 events.
Stanford (4-0) eyes a weekend sweep when it visits Arizona State for an 11 a.m. (PT) matchup Saturday.
Patrick Conaton was a double winner in the 100- and 200-yard backstroke, while David Nolan and Thomas Stephens stood up well in the sprint events.
Conaton’s 100 back win came in 49.04, and his 1:47.96 bested the pack in the 200 variety.
Nolan’s 20.12 in the 50-yard freestyle was .01 away from knotting the race with Arizona’s Bradley Tandy. However, Nolan came back with a 44.11 in the 100-yard freestyle, winning the race in front of Stephens (44.71) and Sam Perry (45.36).
The Cardinal even kept enough in the tank to go 1-2 in the meet-ending 400-yard freestyle relay with respective times of 2:58.67 and 3:01.62.
Nolan, Christian Brown, Gray Umbach and Perry went 1:29.41 for second in the 200-yard medley relay.
Third-place Liam Egan (9:27.19) was a few seconds ahead of Danny Thomson (9:32.95) in the 1,000-yard freestyle. Egan (4:30.88) and Thomson (4:33.80) were the top two finishers in the 500-yard freestyle.
Sean Duggan (1:38.89) led four Cardinal atop the standings in the 200-yard freestyle.
Daniel Le’s 56.23 was silver-worthy in the 100-yard breaststroke.
Tom Kremer (1:47.88) and Umbach (1:47.93) posted a 1-2 finish in the 200-yard butterfly.
Umbach (48.64), Andrew Liang (49.08) and Tom Kremer (49.67) went 1-2-3 in the 100-yard butterfly.
Max Williamson cleared the 200-yard individual medley field by nearly two seconds, touching first in 1:49.47.
Freshman Simone Manuel won three individual events, as the Stanford women’s swimming and diving team won seven of the first eight events to beat host Arizona, 145-111, Friday afternoon. Cardinal newcomers combined to take six of the 12 individual contests.
Manuel found her usual spot in first place of the 50-, 100- and 200-yard freestyles. The school’s record holder in all three events also swam a leg of the 400 free relay for Stanford’s ‘A’ team that would have won the race had they not competed as an exhibition.
Other members of the Class of 2018 to win Friday included Ally Howe (100-yard backstroke, 53.85), Lindsey Engel (200-yard butterfly, 2:00.45) and Janet Hu (100-yard butterfly, 54.44).
Junior human biology major Sarah Haase won the 100-yard breaststroke, out-touching fellow Cardinal Katie Olsen, 1:01.45-1:01.75. Olsen, a senior management science and engineering major, later won the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:12.58.
Bonnie Brandon led the Wildcats with wins in the 500- and 1,000-yard freestyles. She also pushed Manuel to the wall in the 200 free, falling 1:46.20-1:46.25 to the Cardinal star.
Stanford was joined in the dual by the men’s team, which topped Arizona, 160-101.
The Cardinal squads make the short trip to Tempe, Arizona, tomorrow to face the Sun Devils in a dual meet.
