The Eastern men’s and women’s swimming teams are in the midst of an off-week following losses for both teams in last weekend’s meet against the Illinois-Chicago. The men fell by a score of 122-76, while the women also fell by a score of 137-60.

Both the men’s and women’s teams will compete this weekend at the House of Champions Invitational in Indianapolis. This will be the next meet for both of the Panther teams, following an off-week after the meet against Illinois-Chicago.

Both teams are winless, with both the men’s and women’s team holding record of 0-3.

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For the second week in a row, two students from the Oakland Golden Grizzles won the player of the week awards for their performances against Wright State this past week.

Sophomore Matyas Keresztes was awarded the honor of being the Men’s Athlete of the Week. This is the second time collecting the award. He finished with a league-best time of in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 21.29. Keresztes helped his team win the 200-yard freestyle and medley relays.

On the women’s end, sophomore Vanessza Balogh won her sixth Athlete of the Week award of her swimming career and second this season, winning the 1,650-yard freestyle at a time of 16:52.08. Balogh also won the 400-yard individual medley at 4:29.31.

Oakland’s men and women beat Wright State with scores of 133-85 and 149-88. Oakland will next face Eastern Michigan at 1 p.m. Saturday.

The South Dakota women battled Northern Iowa over the weekend and won 138-105. The men and women teams will travel to face Green Bay at 6 p.m. today and Border Battle at 5 p.m. and 10 a.m. on Friday and Saturday.

The Nebraska women lost to Northern Iowa 119.5 to 176.5. Nebraska will face the Nebraska Huskers next at 5 p.m. at home at 5 p.m. Friday.

South Dakota State had a bye week after both its men and women beat Western Illinois. South Dakota State’s next challenge will be St. Cloud State at 2 p.m. Saturday.

Western Illinois and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis will participate alongside Eastern in the House of Champions Invitational this weekend on Friday and Saturday on the campus of IUPUI.

Nick Blankenship can be reached at 581-7942 or nrblankenship@eiu.edu.