Top-ranked Big Red deal Owls dual-meet defeat

11/7/2026 1:15:00 PM

GAMBIER, Ohio -- After knocking off Oberlin College and Ohio Wesleyan University in Friday's double-dual meet, the Kenyon College men's swimming and diving team was unable to pull off the weekend sweep, losing to Denison University, 170-130, Saturday morning at Steen Aquatic Center.

Denison (2-0), the defending national champion, won 12 of 16 events. The Big Red opened up a 10-point lead after Saturday's first two events and Kenyon never got closer than that the rest of the way.

Sophomore Kristof Szappanos was responsible for the first of the four Kenyon event wins, as he fared well in backstroke events. He won the 100-yard race in 49.85 and, later, placed second in the 200-yard race, clocking in at 1:52.17.

Late in the meet, first-year Matheus Maule came through again for the Owls. Last night, Maule won the 100-yard breaststroke and on Saturday he won the 200-yard breaststroke, touching in 2:07.17. Earlier in Saturday's meet, he placed second in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 57.20, coming up just three-hundredths of a second off the winning time.

Two events later, senior Roman Savage recorded the third Kenyon event win, taking gold in the 100-yard butterfly with a winning time of 49.61.

Sophomore diver Chase Smith rang up the other Kenyon victory. After taking second place on the three-meter board (290.78), Smith won the one-meter competition with a final score of 282.98.

First-years Strader Franzese and Lucas Casey also turned in some noteworthy swims for the Owls. Strader was runner-up in both the 500-yard freestyle (4:38.23) and the 1,000-yard freestyle (9:33.82). In between those two events, Casey clocked in at 21.09 to take second place in the 50-yard freestyle.

Kenyon (2-2) will be back in action on November 18, when it hosts the annual Total Performance Invitational, an event that will span four days.

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