Duke Sweeps Carolina In Regular-Season Finales

Saturday, January 28

Chapel Hill, N.C.

1:00 PM

North Carolina

Duke

January 28, 2017 | Swimming & Diving

By: UNC Athletic Communications

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Duke's men's and women's swimming and diving teams spoiled Senior Day for North Carolina, earning dual meet wins over the Tar Heels at the Maurice J. Koury Natatorium.

In the final home dual meet for 19 outstanding UNC seniors, both squads fell short in their efforts to take down the Blue Devils. The #22-ranked Duke women won 163-137 while the Duke men defeated their counterparts from Carolina 173.5-126.5.

“Well I guess it's pretty easy to sum up the weekend. We lost meets yesterday and today. It's never fun to lose,” says UNC head coach Rich DeSelm. “Right now, we need to find a way to get some wins. But I'll tell you what, the meet is over and it's behind us. We've got to learn from it and hopefully our team will be passionate about continuing on and coming in Monday and preparing for whatever the next competition is.”

The Tar Heel women actually won nine of 16 events in the meet but the depth for the Duke women carried the day as they won both relays and accumulated enough second and third place finishes to prevail over Carolina. Seven of Carolina's nine individual event wins came from seniors.

Hellen Moffitt was a three-event winner for the Tar Heels as she swept Senior Day wins in the 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke and 100 butterfly. Sarah Hitchens also won two events for Carolina in the 50 free and 100 free. Other senior winners were Sarah Koucheki in the 200 fly and Abby Fisher in the 200 breast. Junior diver Elissa Dawson was her usual brilliant self, taking first place in both diving events, winning by solid margins in both events.

The Tar Heel men were led by Henry Campbell, who took home first place in both the 1000 free and the 500 free. Senior Christian Caveness in the 100 fly, senior Michael Meyer in the 200 IM, senior Jorden Merrilees in the 200 free and junior Michael McBryan in the 200 breast all nabbed individual wins for the Carolina Blue & White.

“I greatly admire the efforts of the senior class. They are great kids both in the pool and outside of the pool,” says DeSelm. “It's special to see them come in as recruited student-athletes and then see them progress to graduation.”

UNC will return to action when it hosts the Janis Hape Dowd Invitational next weekend. The meet will have morning and evening sessions at UNC on Friday and Sunday and the middle day of the meet will be held at Duke.

WOMEN'S TEAM SCORE: #22 DUKE 163, NORTH CAROLINA 137

TOP CAROLINA FINISHERS IN EACH EVENT—WOMEN

200-Yard Medley Relay – 2nd Place, North Carolina (Caroline Baldwin, Katie Munch, Hellen Moffitt, Sarah Hitchens), 1:41.23
1000-Yd. Freestyle – Macey Arnold, 3^rd Place, 10:11.90
200-Yd. Freestyle – Caty Hulsey, 2^nd Place, 1:50.12
100-Yd. Backstroke – Hellen Moffitt, 1^st Place, 53.32
100-Yd. Breaststroke – Abby Fisher, 2^nd Place, 1:04.00
200-Yd. Butterfly – Sarah Koucheki, 1^st Place, 1:58.90
50-Yd. Freestyle – Sarah Hitchens, 1^st Place, 22.76
Three-Meter Diving – Elissa Dawson, 1^st Place, 337.65
100-Yd. Freestyle – Sarah Hitchens, 1^st Place, 50.23
200-Yd. Backstroke – Hellen Moffiitt, 1^st Place, 1:56.77
200-Yd. Breaststroke – Abby Fisher, 1^st Place, 2:17.12
500-Yd. Freestyle – Bryanna Cameron, 3^rd Place, 4:58.85
100-Yd. Butterfly – Hellen Moffitt, 1^st Place, 53.01
One-Meter Diving – Elissa Dawson, 1^st Place, 309.90
200-Yd. Individual Medley – Caty Hulsey, 2^nd Place, 2:04.05
400-Yd. Freestyle Relay – 2^nd Place, North Carolina (Sarah Hitchens, Sarah Koucheki, Brooke Bauer, Caroline Baldwin), 3:21.67
Records: Duke 6-2, ACC 2-2; North Carolina 1-6, ACC 0-4

MEN'S TEAM SCORE: DUKE 173.5, NORTH CAROLINA 126.5

TOP CAROLINA FINISHERS IN EACH EVENT—MEN

200-Yard Medley Relay – 3rd Place, North Carolina (Michael Meyer, Craig Emslie, Christian Caveness, Graham Weaver), 1:29.75
1000-Yd. Freestyle – Henry Campbell, 1^st Place, 9:15.00
200-Yd. Freestyle – Jorden Merrilees, 1^st Place, 1:38.15
100-Yd. Backstroke – Christian Caveness, 2^nd Place, 49.05
100-Yd. Breaststroke – Craig Emslie, 2^nd Place, 54.57
200-Yd. Butterfly – Matt Conway, 2^nd Place, 1:48.74
50-Yd. Freestyle – Lucas Popp, 3^rd Place, 21.04
Three-Meter Diving – Jack Nyquist, 3^rd Place, 373.95
100-Yd. Freestyle – Jorden Merrilees, 3^rd Place, 45.56
200-Yd. Backstroke – Michael Meyer, 2^nd Place, 1:48.34
200-Yd. Breaststroke – Michael McBryan, 1^st Place, 1:59.89
500-Yd. Freestyle – Henry Campbell, 1^st Place, 4:27.02
100-Yd. Butterfly – Christian Caveness, 1^st Place, 48.52
One-Meter Diving – Jack Nyquist, Tied 2^nd Place, 353.63
200-Yd. Individual Medley – Michael Meyer, 1^st Place, 1:50.38
400-Yd. Freestyle Relay – 2^nd Place, North Carolina (Christian Caveness, Lucas Popp, Henry Campbell, Jorden Merrilees), 3:01.08
Records: Duke 6-2, ACC 1-2; North Carolina 1-6, ACC 0-4