2019 MEN’S MID-AMERICAN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS
- March 4th-7th, 2019
- Nixon Aquatic Center, Oxford, OH
- Short Course Yards, Prelims-Finals
- Defending Champion: Missouri State (1x) (results)
- NCAA Division I
- Live Stream
- Championship Central
- Day 1 Results
- Day 2 Results
Round 1 of the 2019 MAC Conference Championship on Monday meet went to the Miami University men, who swept the 2 relays and broke 3 school records.
The defending conference champions fought back on Tuesday, though, sweeping the day’s 4 swimming events.
A huge diving performance from a pair of seniors, though, kept Miami in the lead, by a slim 3-point margin, at the end of the day.
Team Scores After Day 2:
- Miami University – 326
- Missouri State – 323
- Southern Illinois – 214
- Ball State – 126
- Evansville – 117
Missouri State freshman Pawel Krawczyk won the men’s 500 free in a new Pool Record of 4:20.67. That broke the Pool Record at the Nixon Natatorium that was set in 2017 by then-high school swimmer Grant House (who now swims at Arizona State). That improves on his previous lifetime best of 4:21.66 and jumps him to 2nd-place in school history.
That led a 1-2-4-5-7 finish for Missouri State that pulled his team briefly into the lead.
In the next race, Missouri State senior Artur Osvath won the 200 IM in 1:45.91. That’s a season-best for him, and won the race by over a second, but misses his personal best. That win, though, didn’t keep Miami from earning back the lead in the team battle. This time they had the depth with 4 swimmers in the top 8 and 5 scorers overall.
In the day’s final individual race, Missouri State got another win. This time it was senior Lucas Paloschi. He won by the slimmest-of-margins, .01 seconds, ahead of both Nic Wamsley and Nick Ward of Miami. Former Arizona Wildcat Blair Bish won the B Final for Missouri State in 20.43 (they also won 2 of the 3 swimming B finals on the day).
Missouri State finished their swimming run with a win in the 200 free relay, where the team of Paloschi (20.08), Bish (20.31), Samuel Senn (19.34), and Jake Schultz (19.85) combined for a 1:19.58. Senn’s split came after a 4th-place finish of 20.12 in the individual race.
Miami took 2nd in 1:20.23, out-touching Southern Illinois, who was 3rd in 1:20.32.
While Missouri State was dominant at the top of the swimming events, the Miami Redhawks had a pair of aces up their sleeve: senior divers Harrison Moncino and Ryan Nash. They went 1-2 on the men’s 1 meter, with Moncino winning with a score of 344.25. While Missouri State’s Michael Claunch took 3rd, the Miami 1-2-5 finish was enough for them to hold on to the lead after the end of day 1.
Moncino’s final dive:
And with that dive, Harrison Moncino is your 2019 MAC Champion in the 1-mtr dive!! #RiseUpRedHawks pic.twitter.com/VkSYtWpMET
— Miami Swim/Dive (@MiamiOHSwimDive) March 6, 2019
Miami and Missouri State combined for 18 of the 24 A-finals swims on day 2 of the meet. Southern Illinois scored the other 3.
My sources in the Wheeler camp told me he was cruising the 500. Saving it for the 200 tonight
Live Stats is posting last year’s results.
Meet organizers said they couldn’t get them working. Will remove link so there’s no confusion, but only live results are on MM right now.
MM?
I heard James Mcguire is planning on winning the 400 IM by 10 seconds in finals. Look out for him.
Lol you wish.
The live stats link leads to the 2018 OH Miami University Invitational
That’s the link that’s on the official site too. We’ve asked for a better one…
This was such an exciting meet to follow when Buffalo and EMU were there. Now it’s just kind of a glorified dual meet.
I think it’s actually a great dual meet! It’s a great dual meet or a glorified tri.
That was my thought exactly. This was the MAC before SIU, MSU, and Evansville entered the mix