McMINNVILLE, Ore. – Linfield and Pacific Lutheran divided a Northwest Conference dual meet Friday night at the Linfield Aquatics Center. The Linfield men won by a wide margin, 131½ to 69½ but the Lutes edge the Wildcat women by a narrow 109-96 count.
 
For the season, the Linfield men improved to 3-0 in NWC dual meets and the women moved to 2-1.
 
MEN
The Linfield B relay, comprised of Colby Evenson, Jake Maher, Edan Donaldson and Garrett Sutton, edged the Linfield A relay by a fraction of a second to win the 200-yard medley relay in 1:38.83.
 
The Wildcats swept the 1,000 freestyle. Freshman Gavin Smith won the event in 10:48.07, followed by Grant Cutler in second place (11:26.30) and Jesse Genualdi was third (13:42.10).
 
Cameron Wheeler was the winner in the 200 freestyle, topping teammate Brahm Zlotowski, 1:51.24 to 1:56.46.
 
Ben Simpson was a clear-cut winner in the 100 butterfly in 52.58, holding off Donaldson, who was second in 53.50.
 
Sutton blazed to a 48.55 clocking in the 100 freestyle, winning by a nearly two-second spread.
 
Maher and Alex Landry went 1-2 in the 100 breaststroke. Maher won in 1:00.16, well ahead of Landry's mark of 1:02.96.
 
Daniel Olson tied for first place in the 50 freestyle in 22.45.
 
WOMEN
 Kate Walkup and Kalea Mullins went 1-2 in the 1,000 freestyle. Walkup won in 11:07.43, comfortably ahead of Mullins, who clocked 11:16.65. Walkup was also second in the 500 freestyle (5:28.87) and second in the 100 butterfly (1:00.91).
 
The Wildcats swept the top three spots in the 50 freestyle. Maggie Kelley was first in 25.79, just in front of Molly Shields (26.02) and Lauren Bobo-Shisler (26.07).
 
Whitney Averill was runner-up in the 100 breaststroke in 1:10.38 and Claudia Velie was third in the 200 freestyle (2:06.13).
 
Linfield's 200 freestyle A relay quartet took top honors to close the meet out. Bobo-Shislher, Averill, Kelley and Claudia Velie nipped PLU's foursome by less than a second, winning in 1:44.15.
 
NEXT
The Wildcats are in action Saturday in Newberg, taking on George Fox in another Northwest Conference dual meet starting at 11 a.m.