2014 NAIA National Championships – Men’s Meet
- Dates: Wednesday, March 5 – Saturday, March 8, 2014; prelims 10:00 am, finals 6:00 pm
- Location: Oklahoma City Community College, Oklahoma City, OK (Central Time Zone)
- Defending Champions: Oklahoma Baptist University (results)
- Live Results: Available
- Live Video: Available
- Championship Central
The last morning session of the 2014 NAIA National Championships wrapped up with big gains from Olivet Nazarene, Oklahoma Baptist, and Thomas University.
SCAD Savannah has been steadily closing in on second-place ONU and had some excellent prelims performances. This race is going to go down to the last relay. Every single point will count tonight. Other close contests include that between Wayland Baptist and Cumberlands.
Ups/Downs
|
A Final |
B Final |
|
| Asbury |
0 |
1 |
| Concordia |
2 |
10 |
| Emmanuel |
1 |
1 |
| Lindsey Wilson |
0 |
2 |
| Oklahoma Baptist |
13 |
4 |
| Olivet Nazarene |
3 |
4 |
| SCAD Savannah |
6 |
0 |
| Soka |
0 |
1 |
| St. Andrews |
2 |
3 |
| The College of Idaho |
0 |
1 |
| Thomas |
1 |
1 |
| Union |
1 |
1 |
| Univ of the Cumberlands |
1 |
1 |
| Wayland Baptist |
1 |
2 |
| West Virginia Tech |
1 |
0 |
200 back: Defending two-time champion and national record-holder Ryan Searles of SCAD went 1:46.92 for the top time of the morning. Teammate Karl Hegwein led the challengers, who include Nico Brun (OBU), Georgi Krastev (St. Andrews), Andrew Nelson (OBU), Connor Wilson (OBU), Victor Vassallo (Thomas), and Blain Stewart (OBU).
100 free: Simon Pheasant (ONU) led the field this morning with a 44.18 qualifying time. He will be joined by Pat Cardillo (SCAD), defending champion and current record-holder Daniel Ramirez (OBU), Daniel Robbins (OBU), Logan Lassley (OBU), Joshua Lercel (ONU), John Dowd (Concordia), and Javier Sossa (OBU).
200 breast: OBU’s Vitor da Franca, Tim Richard, Gilles Cantrelle and Gregory Penny had the four fastest times in prelims. The rest of the championship final will consist of SCAD’s Strybjorn Torell, WBU’s Bjoern Globke, Marc Fleischmann (SCAD), and Jack Cavanagh of West Virginia Tech.
200 fly: Aaron Buchanan of ONU clocked a 1:49.24 in prelims to earn his place in lane four tonight. Mark Shvartsman, runner-up in the 100, qualified second. Then came Andrew Gurley (St. Andrews), Jose Morales (Union), Elliot Bilsland (Concordia), Santi Aguilar (Emmanuel), David Cabezas (Cumberlands), and Garland Sullivan (OBU).
400 medley relay: OBU cruised to an easy 3:22.63 in the 400 medley relay to qualify first for tonight’s final. St. Andrews had the second fastest time, while Concordia and SCAD put up almost identical times. Other championship final qualifiers were: ONU, Cumberlands, Union, and Asbury.
Standings After Day Two
Men
- Oklahoma Baptist University 639
- Olivet Nazarene University 336
- SCAD Savannah 331
- Concordia University 293
- St. Andrews University 198
- Union College 159
- University of the Cumberlands 130
- Wayland Baptist University 127
- Asbury University 91
- Thomas University 58
Biola University 58
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