BERKELEY, Calif. – The Stanford men’s swimming and diving team earned five victories in the 127th Big Splash against Cal at Spieker Aquatics Complex on Friday. However, the biggest reaction from the Cardinal pool deck was from another performance altogether.
When Matt Fenlon touched the wall in the 200-yard butterfly, his time of 1:42.11 earned the senior a huge cheer from his teammates and coaches. The time was a big personal record, from 1:42.99, and vaulted him from No. 15 to No. 8 on Stanford’s all-time list.
No. 9 Stanford fell to the No. 3 Golden Bears in a rainy dual meet, 175-125, to close out the regular season. The Atlantic Coast Conference Championships are next, February 18-22 in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Also achieving a personal record was freshman Daniel Li, who touched the wall fourth in the 100 breaststroke in 52.41, an improvement from a two-year-old best of 52.43. He jumps to No. 9 in school history.
Stanford’s victories came from Jack Ryan in 1-meter and 3-meter diving, Andrei Minakov in the 100 and 200 fly events, and Ron Polonsky in the 100 breast.
The Cardinal, which never led, still holds a commanding lead in the series, at 103-24, which began in 1916. However, Cal has won the past seven Big Splash duals in Berkeley, with Stanford’s most recent triumph in 2011.
Cal 175, Stanford 125
At Spieker Aquatics Complex
Winners and all Stanford
50-yard freestyle – 1, Jack Alexy (Cal) 19.00; 2, Jonathan Tan (Stanford) 19.29; 4, Rafael Gu (Stanford) 19.65; 5, Ethan Harrington (Stanford) 19.79; 7, Avery Voss (Stanford) 19.88.
100 free – 1, Jack Alexy (Cal) 41.61; 5, Andres Dupont Cabrera (Stanford) 42.92; 6, Jonathan Tan (Stanford) 43.13; 7, Ethan Harrington (Stanford) 43.50.
200 free – 1, Destin Lasco (Cal) 1:31.85; 2, Henry McFadden (Stanford) 1:32.49; 6, Andres Dupont Cabrera (Stanford) 1:34.36.
500 free – 1, Lucas Henveaux (Cal) 4:10.82; 2, Henry McFadden (Stanford) 4:18.56; 3, Liam Custer (Stanford) 4:21.59; 5, Gabe Machado (Stanford) 4:27.63.
1,000 free – 1, Lucas Henveaux (Cal) 8:44.42; 2, Liam Custer (Stanford) 8:52.75; 5, Gabe Machado (Stanford) 9:02.81; 6, Henry Morrissey (Stanford) 9:19.70.
100 backstroke – 1, Bjorn Seeliger (Cal) 45.55; 3, Aaron Sequeira (Stanford) 46.01; 5, Finn Harland (Stanford) 46.69.
200 back – 1, Mewen Tomac (Cal) 1:40.30; 3, Josh Zuchowski (Stanford) 1:42.57; 4, Hayden Kwan (Stanford) 1:42.59; 5, Aaron Sequeira (Stanford) 1:43.46.
100 breaststroke – 1, Ron Polonsky (Stanford) 51.40; 3, Zhier Fan (Stanford) 51.93; 4, Daniel Li (Stanford) 52.41 (PB; No. 9 Stanford AT); 8, Ethan Dang (Stanford) 53.24; 9, Abram Mueller (Stanford) 53.36; 10, Go Nagaoka (Stanford) 53.50.
200 breast – 1, Yamato Okadome (Cal) 1:52.31; 2, Ron Polonsky (Stanford) 1:52.53; 3, Daniel Li (Stanford) 1:54.69; 4, Zhier Fan (Stanford) 1:55.31; 6, Ethan Dang (Stanford) 1:55.63x; 8, Hayden Zheng (Stanford) 1:55.88x; 11, Abram Mueller (Stanford) 1:58.54x.
100 butterfly – 1, Andrei Minakov (Stanford) 44.83; 3, Rafael Gu (Stanford) 45.66; 7, Avery Voss (Stanford) 47.04; 8, Hayden Kwan (Stanford) 49.66x.
200 fly – 1, Andrei Minakov (Stanford) 1:40.54; 4, Matt Fenlon (Stanford) 1:42.11 (PB; No. 8 Stanford AT); 5, Gibson Holmes (Stanford) 1:43.35; 7, Rick Mihm (Stanford) 1:44.31.
200 individual medley – 1, Destin Lasco (Cal) 1:41.68; 2, Ron Polonsky (Stanford) 1:43.54; 3, Gibson Holmes (Stanford) 1:44.49; 4, Rick Mihm (Stanford) 1:44.88; 7, Josh Zuchowski (Stanford) 1:47.07x.
1-meter diving – 1, Jack Ryan (Stanford) 366.00; 3, Hunter Hollenbeck (Stanford) 311.78; 7, Misha Andriyuk (Stanford) 268.20.
3-meter diving – 1, Jack Ryan (Stanford) 426.98; 3, Misha Andriyuk (Stanford) 344.10; 6, Hunter Hollenbeck (Stanford) 342.90.
400 free relay – 1, Cal 2:47.55; 2, Stanford ‘A’ (Henry McFadden, Rafael Gu, Andres Dupont Cabrera, Andrei Minakov) 2:48.71; 6, Stanford ‘B’ (Avery Voss, Finn Harland, Ethan Harrington, Jonathan Tan) 2:53.96; 7, Stanford ‘C’ (Daniel Li, Go Nagaoka, Ethan Dang, Zhier Fan) 3:00.26x.
200 medley relay – 1, Cal 1:22.82; 2, Stanford ‘A’ (Aaron Sequeira, Ron Polonsky, Andrei Minakov, Ethan Harrington) 1:23.25; 4, Stanford ‘B’ (Finn Harland, Abram Mueller, Rafael Gu, Avery Voss) 1:24.22.
PB = personal record
AT = all-time