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Landyn Rankin
Seth Carroll

Titans edge Presidents

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa.---Freshman Landyn Rankin (Woodland, Pa., Clearfield) swam to three individual first-place finishes Saturday to help the Westminster men's swimming and diving team earn a 145-141 Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) dual meet victory over visiting Washington & Jefferson. 

Westminster had dropped its last two dual meets with W&J before Saturday's win. 

Rankin finished first in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1 minute, 48.21 seconds, the 500 freestyle (5:06.41) and the 400 IM (4:35.86). Junior Jack Katigbak (North Canton, Ohio, Lake Center Christian) won the 100 backstroke (54.58) and 200 backstroke (2:03.61) while sophomore Ethan Bishop (Meadow, Utah, Millard) won the 1000 freestyle (11:08.48), finished second in the 500 freestyle (5:22.95) and third in the 400 IM (4:546.10). 

Freshman Gunnar Probst (Latrobe, Pa., Mount Pleasant) was second in the 50 freestyle (22.46) and 100 freestyle (49.99). Freshman Bayley Johnson (Columbia, S.C., South Carolina Virtual Charter) was second in the 200 breaststroke (2:26.17) and third in the 100 breaststroke (1:11.85) and 200 freestyle (1:52.75). Freshman Jakob Vranick (Jeannette, Pa., Avonworth) finished second in the 100 butterfly (59.68) while freshman Tyler Snow (Cranberry Township, Pa., Seneca Valley) finished second in the 1000 freestyle (11:23.10) and third in the 200 backstroke (2:10.13) and 200 butterfly (2:31.67).

Freshman David Atamian (Fontana, Calif., Etiwanda) finished third in the 50 freestyle (22.80) and 100 freestyle (50.31) while freshman Quin Manly (Westerville, Ohio, Westerville North) was third in the 500 freestyle (5:41.54) and 1000 freestyle (11:35.02). Senior Hayne Webster (Wellsboro, Pa., Wellsboro) finished third in the 100 butterfly (1:1.84) and freshman Nathan Goff (Beaver Falls, Pa., Riverside) was third in the 100 backstroke (1:02.35).  

Westminster's 200 medley 'A' relay was second with a time of 1:38.74. Members of the relay were Katigbak, Rankin, Probst and Atamian. The 200 freestyle 'A' relay finished second with a time of 1:30.07. The relay was made up of Atamian, Katigbak, Vranick and Probst. 

Up next:
Westminster will host Allegheny next Saturday. Events are scheduled to get underway at 1 p.m. 
 
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