STEVENS POINT, Wis. – The UW-Stevens Point swimming and diving teams suffered a sweep at the hands of visiting Northern Michigan on Saturday afternoon.  The men accrued 131 points and fell by a margin of 38 points.  The women collected 71 points to NMU's 225.

Event Results | Team Scores

Junior Sam Jekel (Fitchburg, Wis./Madison West) picked up a pair of individual event wins.  He won the 100-yard free and the 100-yard butterfly by more than a second each.  Jekel also combined with teammates Andrew King (Palatine, Ill.), Jack Englehardt (Madison, Wis./West) and Reilly Donnellan (Neenah, Wis./Neenah) to win the 200-yard freestyle medley relay.

Englehardt and Donnellan finished 1-2 in the 50-yard freestyle for UWSP. Sean Cloghessy (Munster, Ind.) and Jackson Wells (Overland Park, Kan.) earned the top-2 spots in the 1-meter diving event.

Sophomore Grant Moser (St. Michael, Minn.) helped in collecting points with a second place finish in both the 100-yard butterfly and the 200-yard freestyle.

Last year's WIAC Swimmer of the Year Nate Somers (Oshkosh, Wis./West) also took a second place finish in the 1,000-yard freestyle and 500-yard freestyle, collecting four points total in each events. 

Bree Parent (Mt. Horeb, Wis.) finished second in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:10.42, earning a total of four points for the Pointers. 

Erica Perkins (Rochester, Minn./Rochester Century High School) took a third-place finish in the 50-yard freestyle and improved her time from qualifying to finals by .15 milliseconds.

Junior Jackie Braun (Sauk Rapids, Minn.) took second in the 3-meter diving event.  Braun placed third in the 1-meter diving event.  

The Pointers travel to the Whitewater, Wis., on Saturday, November 19 for a dual against the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.  The meet is set to start at 1:00 p.m.