CHARLOTTE, N.C. – On day three of the Bluegrass Mountain Conference Championships, the Queens University of Charlotte men's and women's swimming teams inched closer to their sixth straight BMC title.
The Queens women currently have 807.5 team points, while Wingate University sits in second place with 553 team points. For the men, Queens has amassed 705.5 team points, leading second place Wingate which has a team total of 589. On Saturday evening, the Royals combined to win eight of the 10 events bringing their championship total to 24 victories over three days.
The men recorded the night's first victory as sophomore
Luke Erwee won the 500-Yard Freestyle with a time of 4:24.73. Fellow sophomore
Jan Delkeskamp followed with a win in the 100-Yard Breaststroke, while two more sophomores in
Alex Kunert (1:45.44) and
Ruben Stam (1:48.30) finished 1-2 in the 200-Yard Butterfly.
Queens' 800-Yard Freestyle Relay team of Kunert,
Skyler Cook-Weeks,
Cezary Butkiewicz, and
Bennett Maczka turned in a time of 6:29.41 to claim the top spot.
On the women's side, senior
Polina Lapshina (53.63), junior
Rachel Massaro (54.11), and sophomore
Bobbi Gichard (54.46) swept the podium in the 100-Yard Backstroke.
Freshman
Mikaela Fullerton won the 100-Yard Breaststroke, while fellow freshman
Yuliia Stadnyk and senior
Georgia DaCruz were first and second, respectively, in the 200-Yard Butterfly. The 800-Yard Freestyle Relay team of
Danielle Melilli,
Hannah Foster,
Lexie Baker, and
Francesca Bains won the race by a margin of nearly nine seconds over a foursome from Wingate.
The Royals wrap up competition in the 2020 BMC Championships tomorrow with prelims beginning at 10 a.m. and the finals at 5 p.m. from the Mecklenburg County Aquatic Center.
