Winning record stays afloat against Wildcats

The IU men's swimming and diving team remains undefeated with a 4-0 record after pulling out an upset over the No. 20 Northwestern Wildcats Saturday at the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center. The Hoosiers clinched their 158-140 victory by winning the 200-yard freestyle relay. IU did not win many events in the meet, but picked up enough points in the outside lanes for a victory. \n"It was a hard fought win against one of the better teams in the Big Ten, so we are real happy with it," men's swimming head coach Ray Looze said in a statement.\n"The final relay swam well enough to win, and helped us to capture the victory overall," he said. "We are focused on the end of the season, so it is nice to beat one of the top 20 teams in the nation when we aren't even receiving any votes."\nThe Hoosiers and the Wildcats remained neck-and-neck, trading leads for the first portion of the meet. But after the top sprinting force of juniors Claes Andersson, Dale Ramsy, Mike Payne and sophomore Nicolas Burgess swept the first four spots of the 50-yard freestyle event, the Hoosiers took the lead and never looked back. The team of Andersson, Ramsy, Payne and Burgess also swam a winning time of 1:23.33 in the 200-yard freestyle relay, which sealed the win for the Hoosiers. \nSenior captain Dave Schulze led his team to victory by winning two individual events and participated in a winning relay team. Schulze barely edged out his opponent in the 100-yard breaststroke by .01 seconds with a time of 57.39. He swam a winning time of 2:03.87 in the 200-yard breast, and was joined by teammates junior Matt Leach, sophomore Murph Halasz and junior Dale Ramsy to win the 200-yard medley relay with a time of 1:32.19. Halasz also won the 400-yard IM in a time of 4:02.09.\nThe diving team helped the Hoosiers beat the Wildcats by taking both first and second place in the one-meter and three-meter diving competitions. Junior All-American Marc Carlton won both events with a score of 327.30 on the one-meter and a score of 300.08 on the three-meter. Freshman Brian Mariano placed second on the one-meter scoring 294.75 points, and senior Adam Hazes scored 294.40 points to place second on the 3-meter.