Sivec unable to get out of the prelims at NCAA swim finals; CSUB baseball takes another series; BC recap
The highly decorated Cal State Bakersfield swim career of senior Vili Sivec came to a close on Saturday after competing in the NCAA Division I Championship meet for his second event in his first NCAA meet appearance. Sivec, who earlier in the week competed in the 100-yard butterfly preliminary race but was unable to advance to the finals, swam in the 200-yard fly prelims on Saturday in Atlanta. He did not swim fast enough to advance to the top 16 finals/consolation races, recording a time of 1 minute, 43.
26 seconds. He finished 28th out of 34 who qualified. Sivec came into the race as the Big West Conference champion in the 200 fly.
He had also won the 100 fly conference title. Sivec, who is from Zabok, Croatia, became only the second male Roadrunner swimmer and third overall to compete in the NCAA Division I championships. He joined distance freestyle swimmer Mitchell Huxhold, who qualified in three events (200, 500 and 1650 free) in both the 2014 and 2015 meets.
Before Sivec, the most recent Roadrunner swimmer to qualify for the NCAA D1 championships was Autumn D’Arcy, who competed in three women’s events, the 100- and 200-yard fly and 200 individual medley. CSUB BASEBALL For the second consecutive weekend, the Roadrunner baseball team took care of business in Big West Conference play for the first two games of a three-game series, this time defeating Cal State Northridge on Friday and Saturday, 11-3 in the opener and 8-6 in 10 innings. But when Sunday arrived and the chance to sweep a conference team was there, CSUB was unable to pull it off.
Northridge had 11 hits and put together a 9-5 victory. It’s not a knock on the Roadrunners — winning back-to-back Big West series against both the Matadors and the previous weekend at home against Long Beach State — just something head coach Jordon Banfield wants to see. “We’re certainly not at a point where we’re going to be upset when we win series … but once you get the first two and you have a chance to do it and it’s hard to sweep people, you need to go do it,” Banfield said last Thursday about the Long Beach series win and preparing for Northridge.
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