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Thursday, February 23
College Park, Md.
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Day Two
Blue Devils End Second Day With Season-Best Relay
2/23/2006 12:00:00 AM | Swimming & Diving
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- The Duke men's swimming and diving team swam a season-best 1:24.15 200 freestyle relay to finish in ninth place, closing out the second day of competition at the 2006 ACC Championships, hosted by the University of Maryland Thursday. Sophomore Ryan Packer swam a 20.67 anchor to come from behind and lift the relay to ninth.
Junior Jacob McCafferty competed in the 200 IM bonus finals Thursday evening after qualifying with a career-best time of 1:53.43 in the morning preliminary session. His 1:54.36 in the finals put him in 23rd overall for the individual medley.
Also in the preliminaries, Packer fell just outside the finals cutoff, tying his career-best 50 freestyle time of 20.95. Packer and McCafferty were two of 15 Blue Devils to set personal records at Thursday's ACC Championships.
Taking cue from McCafferty, eight swimmers improved their times in the 200 IM, including junior Kevin Arthofer (1:53.92), sophomore Scott Champagne (1:54.41), sophomore Matt Rinehart (1:54.77), junior Alex Sidelnik (1:56.66), freshman Jordan Charles (1:56.73), sophomore Peter Osterland (1:57.89), freshman Nick Schilling (2:02.27), freshman Kyle Barrett (2:03.60) and sophomore Garrick Berberich (2:06.66).
Besides Packer, four notched top times in the 50 freestyle, including freshman Andy Ward (21.94), sophomore Jesse Sandberg (22.13), freshman Justin Mullen (22.83) and sophomore Brett Sauers (23.85), while senior Andy Storm shaved .07 seconds off his best 500 freestyle time, set at the ACC's last year, to finish in 4:43.78.
The ACC Championships continue Friday with the 400 IM, 100 butterfly, 200 freestyle, 100 backstroke and 100 breaststroke preliminaries at 11 a.m. Finals start at 7 p.m. and will conclude with the 400 medley relay. With 54 points, Duke sits ninth out of 11 teams after two days of competition.
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