The Barton Community College men's swimming team established themselves in prime trophy position in day three action at the NJCAA National Swimming & Diving Championships.

Entering the day in fourth place trailing Iowa Central Community College by 12.5 points, the Cougars landed eight podium finishes outscoring the Tritons 168 to 113 on the day netting a now 42.5 third place advantage heading into Saturday's final six events. Host school Indian River State College leads the team standings with 1031 points while Southwestern Oregon Community College holds a 118.5 advantage over Barton in the second slot.

Final day action is scheduled to get underway Saturday morning at 8:30 a.m. (CT) from the Anne Wilder Aquatic Complex held in Fort Pierce, Florida.

As a team, the Cougars mended one new program record, 16 new personal best marks, two season best times and 10 new program top-10 best times in which nine coming in the evening's finals portion. 

Fresh off a repeat national championship in Monday's 50-breaststroke, Johan Cue Carrillo suffered heartbreak in Friday's 100-breaststroke falling .06 seconds short of a second repeat chance as the sophomore settled for a national runner-up finish clocking a season best time of 53.70 leading Barton to its' highest individual performance. Carrillo manufactured the third quickest time in the program record books posting the seventh fastest prelim time in the 100 IM before settling for an eighth-place finish in the nightcap turning in 55.72 clocking.

Jethro Irvine and Josias Solarte manufactured the Cougars' next highest finishes with fifth place performances in the 100-backstroke and 200-butterfly respectfully. Irvine pieced together a new personal best stoppage of 51.61 in the morning's 100-backstroke prelims leaping up the program record books as the third fastest performance. Swimming to the fourth fastest time in the morning's 200-butterfly, Solarte slipped back a spot finishing fifth despite improving his prelim time by .98 seconds touching the wall in 1:53.08.

Enzo Vogt da Silva produced the lone program record breaker as the freshman turned in his best performance of the week rewriting his prior program top time with a 4:38.17 sixth place finish in the 500-freestyle.

Barton concluded the strong day with a national runner-up finish in the lone team event as the four pack of Irvine, Carrillo, Solarte and Tyler Woodworth swam to the program's third fastest 200-Medley relay time of 1:31.60.

Complete Meet Results from Day 3

Complete Men's Results Through 3 Days *PB denotes Personal Best/*SB denotes Season Best
Isaiah Auld: 35 points
1000 Freestyle: 8th (9:49.24 PB, *3rd program fastest)
200 Freestyle: 6th (1:42.73, Prelims 1:42.23 SB)
500 Freestyle: 8th (4:42.82, Prelims 4:42.71 PB, *3rd program fastest)
Walker Balicki: 0 points
100 Freestyle: 23rd (11:57.53 PB)
200 Freestyle: 23rd (2:03.20 PB)
500 Freestyle: 20th (5:35.11 PB)
Jonathan Beers: 18 points
200 IM: 12th (2:02.06 PB)
400 IM: 10th (4:25.65 PB, *7th program fastest)
100 Breaststroke: 11th (59.36 PB, *8th program fastest)
Jeremiah Bunce: 0 points
50 Breaststroke: 19th (28.24 PB, *10th program fastest)
100 IM: 19th (57.96 PB)
100 Breaststroke: T-22nd (1:03.42 PB)
Cooper Cole: 29 points
50 Freestyle: 11th (21.36 PB, *8th program fastest)
50 Backstroke: 7th (24.42, Prelims 24.36 PB, * 4th program fastest)
100 IM: 19th (55.54 PB, *10th program fastest)
100 Backstroke: 10th (55.18, Prelims 54.78)
Johan Cue Carrillo: 48 points
50 Breaststroke: NATIONAL CHAMPION (24.60 SB)
100 IM: 8th (55.72, Prelims 53.38 PB, *3rd program fastest)
100 Breaststroke: 2nd (53.70 SB)
Caleb Gregory: 14 points
50 Freestyle: 14th (21.47 PB, *9th program fastest)
100 Butterfly: 13th (51.51, Prelims 51.50 PB, *5th program fastest)
200 Butterfly: 9th (1:56.24 PB, *5th program fastest)
Justus Hampton: 19 points
50 Freestyle: 9th (21.22 SB)
200 Freestyle: 11th (1:45.42)
500 Freestyle: 13th (4:54.27 SB)
Jethro Irvine: 29 points
100 Butterfly: 4th (49.57 PB, *SCHOOL RECORD)
100 Backstroke: 5th (51.80, Prelims 51.61 PB, *3rd program fastest)
Kyle Iselin: 8 points
1000 Freestyle: 19th (11:00.38 PB)
50 Backstroke: 14th (25.95 PB)
100 Backstroke: 12th (55.61 PB)
Joshua-Ryan Lujan: 38 points
50 Breaststroke: 7th (26.58 PB, *5th program fastest)
200 IM: 7th (1:57.39 PB, *4th program fastest)
100 Breaststroke: 5th (57.27 PB, *5th program fastest)
Will Morris: 20 points
200 IM: 11th (2:00.49)
400 IM: 9th (4:20.04, SB)
500 Freestyle: 12th (4:50.06 PB, *7th program fastest)
Jacob Sautter: 0 points
50 Freestyle: 21st (22.91 PB)
100 IM: 21st (58.58 PB)
Josias Solarte: 26 points
100 Butterfly: 7th (50.29, Prelims 49.73 PB *SCHOOL RECORD/*2nd program fastest)
200 Butterfly: 5th (1:53.08)
Jake Swan: 0 points
50 Breaststroke: 20th (28.96 PB)
50 Freestyle: 28th (24:44 PB)
100 Breaststroke: 24th (1:04.22 PB)
Enzo Vogt da Silva: 33 points
1000 Freestyle: 9th (9:53.00)
400 IM: 8th (4:10.75 PB, *4th program fastest)
500 Freestyle: 6th (4:38.71 PB, SCHOOL RECORD)
Daniel Wheatman: 0 Points
100 Butterfly: 17th (54.15 PB)
Tyler Woodworth: 17 points
50 Freestyle: 4th (20.60 PB, *SCHOOL RECORD)
200 Freestyle: 17th (1:50.79)
100 IM: 15th (56.11, Prelims 55.64 PB)

Relay Results
800 Freestyle Relay: Auld, Solarte, Hampton, Silva – 4th (7:03.72)
200 Freestyle Relay: DQ'd
400 Medley Relay: Irvine, Carrillo, Solarte, Woodworth – 3rd (3:20.27 PB, *SCHOOL RECORD)
200 Medley Relay: Irvine, Carrillo, Solarte, Woodworth – 2nd (1:31.60 *3rd program fastest)