PARKLAND, Wash. – Winning results in the 400-yard medley relay gave the Linfield men's and women's swimming squads comfortable leads to start their Northwest Conference dual meet at the Pacific Lutheran pool, and the Wildcats rode the momentum to an impressive sweep of the Lutes Friday night.
 
The Wildcats' 134-63 landslide on the women's side gave Linfield coach Kyle Kimball his first dual meet victory over PLU in eight tries. The men also turned in a dominating effort, beating their PLU counterparts 125-60. Both squads improved to 3-0 on the young season.
 
WOMEN
The 400 medley relay, comprised of Avery Campbell, Whitney Averill, Sarah Arpag and Lauren Bobo-Shisler, blazed past PLU by a seven-second margin, 4:08.28 to 4:15.48.
 
Kate Walkup scored a well-earned victory in the 1,000 freestyle (11:11.19), edging teammates Kirsti Keppo (11:14.51) and Kalea Mullins (11:27.57). Walkup (2:15.64), Keppo (2:26.22) and Campbell (2:50.74) went 1-2-3 in the 200 butterfly, securing 16 team points.
 
Arpag prevailed in a close finish in the 200 freestyle, nipping Bobo-Shisler at the wall, 2:03.16 to 2:03.55. Arpag capped an unbeaten day by taking the gold ribbon in the 200 backstroke (2:15.23).
 
Campbell topped teammate Maggie Kelley in the 50 freestyle, winning comfortably 25.84 to 26.26.
 
Averill and Mullins went 1-2 in the 200 individual medley. Averill won in a time of 2:20.33, just ahead of Mullins' mark of 2:21.35. Averill then picked up her third winning result in the 200 breaststroke (2:33.87) to complete an undefeated day.
 
Kelley won the 100 freestyle by nearly two full seconds (58.01).
 
MEN
Linfield's 400 medley relay gutted out a tight victory over PLU. Three freshmen – Andrew Lee, Carson Washburn, Rocco Velie – combined with junior Edan Donaldson to win in 3:47.17, just a smidgen faster than the Lutes' time of 3:48.17.
 
Daniel Olson was the top finisher in the 50 freestyle, clocking 22.62. Sasha Moore claimed the 200 IM race (2:11.25), outracing teammate Alex Landry (2:13.48).
 
Landry went on the score a decisive win in the 200 breaststroke, topping teammate Grant Cutler 2:23.81 to 2:43.98.
 
Ben Simpson raced to a first-place result in the 200 butterfly (1:59.01) with Casey Wong finishing as runner-up (2:22.71).
 
Donaldson and Garrett Sutton were the leading finishers in the 100 freestyle. Donaldson's time of 48.06 was a full second faster than Sutton's mark of 49.10.
 
Jack Gallo, Velie and Cameron Butler led a 1-2-3 sweep for the Wildcats in the 500 freestyle. Gallo finished in under five minutes (4:59.71), followed by Velie (5:01.51) and Butler (5:30.31).
 
NEXT
The Wildcats are back in action Saturday afternoon at the Linfield Aquatics Center where they will take on George Fox in a dual meet starting at 1 p.m.