REDS Open Dual Meet With A Bang

(SACKVILLE, NB) The UNB REDS women's and men's swim teams combined to win 18 of 20 events in Sunday's first leg of a dual meet at Mount Allison University.

The REDS were led by Hannah Casey and Ethan Nestoruk, who each won a pair of races.

Casey won the women's 200m individual medley and the 200m freestyle, while Nestoruk swam to victory in the men's 200m individual medley and 200m breaststroke.

In the women's 50m freestyle, UNB's Ella Lightheart beat the Mounties' Makayla Churchill to the wall by just 3/10ths of a second.

In an even closer finish, the REDS' Craig Bush was second in the men's 200m freestyle, finishing just a tenth of a second back of Mount A's Sebastian Cariaga.

Other UNB winners included Élodie Martin, in the women's 200m backstroke, Jessie Collett, in the women's 100m freestyle, Landen MacDonald, in the men's 100m freestyle, and Blake Kingston, in the men's 50m free.

REDS relay teams won the women's and men's 4-by-50m medley relays and the women's and men's 4-by-100 freestyle relays.

UNB hosts the Mounties in the second leg of the dual meet on Saturday.

This will be the final event for both teams before the Atlantic University Sport championships, February 10-12, at Memorial University, in St. John's, NL.

STORY BY: Andy Campbell/UNB Athletics

PHOTOS BY: Matthew Croft/for UNB Athletics