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Brianna Vanden Burgt
Brianna Vanden Burgt

Women's Swimming & Diving Chris Zills

Team Effort Sends Panthers Past Wheaton, 162-42

MKE claims each event on the night

WHEATON, Ill. – The Milwaukee women's swimming team won all 11 events on the night to cruise to a 162-42 victory over Wheaton (Ill.) Friday evening at Jonathan Lederhouse Natatorium.
 
The Panthers dominated with a team effort, with Makaila Scheiblein the only swimmer to win multiple events. MKE also topped the Thunder in both relay races.
 
Scheiblein claimed the 50 freestyle and the 100 breaststroke to lead the charge.
 
The winning started with the first event of the meet, seeing Kylee Radigan, Scheiblein, Megan Greenley, and Nhia Caras edge out the 200 medley relay by just over a second in 1:50.42.
 
Scheiblein led a 1-2-3 finish for the MKE women in the 50 freestyle, touching the wall in 24.72 to edge out the 24.96 of teammate Natalie Hey. Just .13 behind that was Molly Meland, third in 25.11.
 
Scheiblein also won her race in the 100 breaststroke in 1:06.08.
 
Antoni Haupt was tops in the 1000 freestyle, finishing in 10:39.17. Erika Thomas finally came in second on the campaign, checking in with a showing of 10:42.53 in her first attempt at long distance this season.
 
Mara Freeman claimed the 100 backstroke in 57.95, beating out teammate Brianna Vanden Burgt's time of 1:01.38.
 
Vanden Burgt did earn a win of her own, leading the way in the 200 freestyle in 1:59.62.
 
Meland (58.14) edged Caras (59.91) for first in the 100 butterfly, while Kelen McDaniels (53.74) and Grace Mayes (54.84) put on a 1-2 battle in the 100 free.
 
Thomas did go 1-for-2 on the night, winning the 500 free in a clocking of 5:13.29 to finish well ahead of second-place Meghan Jagdfeld's time of 5:21.93.
 
The 400 IM featured another 1-2-3 finish for the team, seeing Giulia Guerra-Montes (4:40.41), Bri Zablocki (4:47.17), and Riley Melendy (4:47.22) take the top three spots.
 
McDaniels, Jagdfeld, Greenley, and Caras then closed out the meet with a victory in the 200 free relay in a season-best 1:37.64.
 
Up next, the season rolls on with a trip to the three-day House of Champions Invitational, hosted by IUPUI in Indianapolis. Day one of the event is set for Thursday, November 17.

 
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