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Bees Fall to Florida Tech in Opener

10/24/2015 9:12:00 PM

Melbourne, Florida – The SCAD men's swimming team won four events but it wasn't enough as the Bees fell to Florida Tech 123-82 Saturday afternoon.

SCAD started the meet off by winning the 400 medley relay by 0.88 of second. Newcomer Anton Arvidsson, anchored the team and held off the late charge by the Panthers.

Tyler Prescott led the Bees with two individual wins. Prescott won the 100 back with a time of 52.26 and the 200 IM with 1:55.81.

Joel Ax won the 500 free touching the pad in 4:35.12 and was runner-up in the 1000 free with a time of 9:35.83.

In the 100 yard free Karl Hegwein finished second (48.45), Tim Jarnvik finished fourth (48.99), Arvidsson finished fifth (49.12), and Reed Watkins finished eighth (52.00).

Newcomers Ryan Sweat and Evan Stafford finished second and fourth, respectfully, in the 200 free.

Ax led off the 800 free relay swimming 1:40.9, which was the fastest 200 free of the meet, while Prescott swam 1:44 in the third leg of the relay. Sweat and Shvartsman were the other two members of the relay team that finished second with a time of 7:00.05.

The Bees will return to action Saturday, November 7, when they host Emory and Brenau in a tri meet. The meet is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m.

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Results:
50 yard Free – Tim Jarnvik, 5th, 22.04; Karl Hegwein, 6th, 22.17; Anton Arvidsson, 7th, 22.21; Reed Watkins, 8th, 23.19
100 yard Free – Karl Hegwein, 2nd, 48.45; Tim Jarnvik, 4th, 48.99; Anton Arvidsson, 5th, 49.12; Reed Watkins, 8th, 52.00
100 yard Back – Tyler Prescott, 1st, 52.26; Brogan Bunner, 4th, 56.85; Nick Wargo, 6th, 58.02
100 yard Breast – Sam Kim, 3rd, 1:00.64; Nick Wargo, 5th, 1:01.61; JT Bartel, 7th, 1:02.27; Styrbjorn Torell, 8th, 1:02.51
100 yard Butterfly – Mark Shvartsman, 2nd, 52.47; Ryan Sweat, 4th, 52.71; Brogan Bunner, 6th, 56.29; Rasmus Salomonnson, 8th, 56.86
200 yard Free – Ryan Sweat, 2nd, 1:45.33; Evan Stafford, 4th, 1:54.44; John LaPorta, 5th, 1:54.88
200 yard IM – Tyler Prescott, 1st, 1:55.81; Sam Kim, 4th, 2:00.79; JT Bartel, 7th, 2:07.66; Styrbjorn Torell, 8th, 2:13.38
500 yard Free – Joel Ax, 1st, 4:35.12; Kyle Peach, 4th, 5:08.59; Evan Stafford, 5th, 5:11.10; John LaPorta, 7th, 5:14.78
1000 yard Free – Joel Ax, 2nd, 9:35.83; Kyle Peach, 4th, 10:33.01;
400 yard Medley Relay – (Hegwein, Torell, Shvartsman, Arvidsson), 1st, 3:32.33; (Bunner, Jarnvik, LaPorta, Wargo), 4th, 3:36.45
800 yard Free Relay – (Ax, Sweat, Prescott, Shvartsman), 2nd, 7:00.05; (Stafford, Peach, Bartel, Kim), 4th, 7:36.49

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