LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) \u2013 The UNLV men’s swimming and diving team dominated CSU Bakersfield at home Thursday night, sweeping all 16 events at Jim Reitz Pool.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Scarlet & Gray men’s squad came out on top 226-74, moving to 2-0 in home meets this season.<\/p>\n
THE RUNDOWN \u2013 MEN:<\/p>\n
UP NEXT: The men’s and women’s teams will join back up for a double dual against Utah and Colorado Mesa at 5 p.m. PT Friday, Nov. 6, in Salt Lake City, Utah.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) \u2013 The UNLV men’s swimming and diving team dominated CSU Bakersfield at home Thursday night,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-512598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\tWinning multiple individual events for the Rebels was sophomore Logan Calhoun<\/a>, who kicked the solo victories off with a win in the 1000 free (9:12.41) before later taking first in the 500 free (4:33.18).\u00a0
\n\tSenior Ambrus Barcsak<\/a> also claimed two victories vs. the Roadrunners, winning the 200 free (1:37.90) and 200 IM (1:51.51).\u00a0
\n\tIn addition to winning the 200 medley relay alongside junior Yamato Lucero<\/a>, sophomores Ahmed Tork<\/a> and Bronson Smothers<\/a> (1:28.03), senior Wikus Potgieter<\/a> won both the 100 back (47.74) and 100 free (45.25).\u00a0
\n\tSenior Alex Vazquez<\/a> swept the diving events, registering a 380.25 in the 3-meter dive and a 374.03 in the 1-meter dive.\u00a0
\n\tJunior Lucas Diermayr<\/a> placed first in the 50 free (20.49) and 100 fly (48.16).\u00a0
\n\tOther individual events won by the Rebels included Lucero in the 100 breast (55.16), freshman Tyler Ortiz<\/a> in the 200 fly (1:48.82), senior Nate Thomason<\/a> in the 200 breast (1:59.54) and freshman Edhy Vargas<\/a> in the 200 back (1:45.68).
\n\tThe team of Vargas, junior Kiril Stepanov<\/a>, Smothers and Diermayr finished off the event sweep with a 3:00.71 in the 400 free relay.\u00a0
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