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South Dakota Sweeps St. Cloud State

The South Dakota Swimming and Diving teams swept St. Cloud State Friday at the DakotaDome. The men won 135-108 and the women won 130-113.

Junior Sam Schutt led the women with two individual wins. Schutt won the 200-meter freestyle with 2:05.53 and 100-meter freestyle with 59.57.

Freshman Abby Hollub won the 200-meter individual medley with a final time of 2:28.92 and was part of the 200-meter medley relay team with classmates Hannah Gupton, Theresa Godlewski, and sophomore Kassidie Cornell that cruised to a 2:03.36 victory.

Godlewski won the 50-meter freestyle with a time of 27.83 and Gupton won the 100-meter butterfly with 1:06.90.

Senior Rachel Svendson and sophomore Katie Svendson placed first and second in the 800-meter freestyle. Rachel swam the event in 9:32.04 and her sister Katie was right behind her with 9:35.10.

Freshman Hunter Padgett led the men with two wins. Padgett won the 200-meter freestyle with 1:56.32 and the 400-meter freestyle with 4:11.17.

Freshman Christian Pospisil cruised to victory in the 800-meter freestyle with a final time of 9:06.64.

The relay team of Senior Ian Ford, freshman Jared Thorson, junior Jake Knowles, and sophomore Eric Erlenmeyer won the 200-meter medley with a time of 1:46.67.

Ford won the 100-meter backstroke with a time of 1:00.10 and Thorson claimed the 100-meter butterfly with 58.15.

For diving, junior Greysen Hertting set a pool record in the one-meter dive with a score of 333.23. Freshman Sarah Schank came in second with a score of 233.85.

Hertting also won the three-meter dive with 273.00 and Schank was right behind her again with 226.35.

For the men, sophomore Brady Saunders won the one-meter dive with 291.83 and senior Chase Testa came in second with 275.25.

In the three-meter dive, the two switched places and Testa won with a score of 273.08 and Saunders placed second with 256.95.

The Coyotes are back in the water Saturday and host North Dakota at 11 a.m. in the DakotaDome.

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