WORCESTER, Mass. – The Brandeis University swimming and diving team got a pair of diving victories from first-year
Eitan Finkel (West Vancouver, B.C. / École Sentinel Secondary) this evening as the Judges competed at a multi-team meet at WPI along with Coast Guard, Babson and Smith.
HEAD-TO-HEAD SCORES
- MEN
- Babson 214, Brandeis 52
- Coast Guard 237, Brandeis 47
- WPI 224.5, Brandeis 49.5
- WOMEN
- Babson 203, Brandeis 75
- Smith 223, Brandeis 71
- WPI 212.5, Brandeis 66.5
- Coast Guard 234, Brandeis 53
TOP PERFORMERS - DIVERS
- Finkel was the top scorer for the Brandeis men on the day, winning both diving events.
- In the one-meter event, he won by 66 points with a score of 258.90. In the three-meters, he scored 226.55 to win by 44.25 points.
- Sophomore Ivana Marinkovic (Malden, Mass. / Malden) turned in a fourth-place finish in the three-meter event with a score of 164.70, less than 13 points out of second place. She was fifth off the one-meter board with a score of 161.25, just over three points shy of fourth place.
TOP PERFORMERS – SWIMMERS
- First-year Yolanda Liu (New Taipei City, Taiwan / VIS International Experimental Education) continued her strong start to the season with a pair of sixth-place finishes. In the 100-yard backstroke she posted a time of 1:02.41, less than a second outside of the top four. In the 100 butterfly, she swam 1:01.40, 0.9 shy of fourth place.
- For the men, graduate transfer Artur Berezkin (Nahariyya, Israel / Rabin) had two top-10 placements, coming in sixth in the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:01.10 and in a tie for eighth in the 100 butterfly in 54.70 seconds.
- In the 1,000-yard freestyle, sophomore Sasha Tsizer (Framingham, Mass. / Framingham) and senior Eva Tully-Giles (Ojai, Calif. / Villanova Preparatory School) were ninth and 10th respectively with times of 12:29.28 and 13:19.47.
- Senior Zhuoer Sun (Newton, Mass. / Newton North) was seventh in the men's 1000 free with a time of 13:05.63.
- Junior Lauren Balfour (Madison, Miss. / Pine Crest) turned in a 10th-place finish in the 200 butterfly with a time of 2:29.08.
- Liu teams with sophomore Aretina Zhang (Newton, Mass. / Newton South), first-year Hannah Fink (West Hartford, Conn. / William H Hall) and sophomore Hailey Tran (Malden, Mass. / Malden) for a seventh-place finish in the 200-yard free relay with a time of 1:57.33.
UP NEXT
- The Judges will have their first home meet of the season next Friday evening at 6 p.m. against cross-town rivals Bentley University.
