BRIEF: Men’s swimming season starts strong

Jan. 11, 2011, 1:43 a.m.

The third-ranked Stanford men’s swimming team (2-0) remained undefeated Saturday with a 159-92 win over Pacific (1-3). Senior Austin Staab led the Cardinal with three victories, while junior Curtis Lovelace and sophomore Matthew Swanston won a pair of races each.

Staab was victorious in the 100-yard and 200-yard freestyle races with times of 45.42 and 1:40.67 respectively, and the 100-yard fly with a time of 50.40. Sophomore Aaron Wayne finished second in the 200 freestyle behind his teammate.

Lovelace won both breaststroke races. He won the 100-yard race in 56.73 and the 200-yarder in 2:03.25. Swanston did his part by sweeping the backstroke races in times of 49.90 and 1:47.45 respectively. Junior Geoff Cheah finished second in the 100-yard race and sophomore Matt Thompson was the runner-up in the 200-yard race.

Sophomore Mack Montgomery also won the 200-yard fly for the Cardinal.

Stanford swims next at the Arizona schools on Jan. 21 and 22.



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