CLAREMONT, Calif. -
Lucas Lang set a new SCIAC meet record in the 1650 for his second individual win of the weekend as the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps men's swimming and diving team capped off a dominant performance for its fifth straight SCIAC title on Saturday at the East Los Angeles College Swim Stadium.
CMS finished the championship with 979 points, a 228-point margin over second place Pomona-Pitzer. Chapman was third with 497 and Caltech was fourth with 440.
Lang's 15:22.3 started off the day for the Stags on a high note, as he surpassed the previous meet standard and was just five seconds behind his own personal best, which is a CMS and league record. Lang won the national title in the 1650 a year ago, and will try to repeat as champion next month at the NCAA Championships.
Adam VanLuvanee came in fourth in the 1650 for the Stags, while
Henry Lyons was sixth,
Ben Gallegos eighth and
Cole Sumino ninth as CMS had five of the top 10.
The Stags nearly had another repeat champion in the next event, but
Jeremy Tan settled for All-SCIAC honors in the 200 back by coming second by just one-hundredth of a second in 1:47.66 to Garrett Krattiger of Redlands' 1:47.65, one day after Tan captured the 100 back. His time took just over two seconds off his personal best of 1:49.68 and moved him up from seventh to fourth on the CMS all-time list.
Grant Stucky also qualified for the finals in the 100 back and came in seventh.
Evan Deedy made his second appearance on the podium as an individual this weekend with a second-place finish in the 200 breast, coming in 2:00.23, taking .4 off his personal best, which places second all-time at CMS.
Lucas Williams and
Spencer Merodio also qualified for the finals, finishing sixth and seventh, respectively.
Dylan Krueger and
Theo Johnson were finalists in the 100 free on Saturday and came in fourth and fifth, respectively.
Dean Ko was a qualifier in the finals of the 200 fly and came in fifth.
CMS capped off the meet by coming in second in the 400 free relay, with Tan,
Sean Su, Johnson and Krueger finishing in 3:00.20, which ranks third in CMS history.
The Stags will next await NCAA selections, while the divers will compete at the NCAA Regionals next weekend in Grinnell, Iowa.
