Geneseo Sweeps Swimming and Diving

Geneseo spoiled Canisius’ first house meet of the 2025-26 marketing campaign by sweeping a twin meet in collegiate swimming and diving motion Friday on the Burt Flickinger Center in downtown Buffalo.

The Knights received the ladies’s occasion by a closing rating of 175-125, whereas the Geneseo males’s workforce defeated the Golden Griffins by the rating of 153-145.

For the second-straight week, the Canisius ladies’s 200 medley relay consisting of sophomore Daphne Mead and juniors Cassandra Ercoli, Leyna Swanson and Evie Leighton began the evening off with a victory, because the Blue and Gold unit took first with a time of 1:46.85.

Mead, the reigning MAAC Female Swimmer of the Week, received three particular person occasions on the evening as effectively, beginning with the 100-backstroke occasion, the place she touched the wall in 58.15. The Baltimore, Md., native touched the wall first within the 200-yard backstroke race with a time of two:06.98, a time that was 6.38 seconds sooner than junior teammate SaraJo Gardner, who took second along with her time of two:13.39. Mead then capped off her evening by profitable the 200-yard IM race with a time of two:09.55, a time that was 5.15 seconds sooner than the occasion’s second-place finisher.

Leighton received two particular person races as effectively, claiming first place within the 200 free along with her time of 1:55.37, and she or he later positioned first within the 100-yard freestyle race with a time of 53.38.

In the lads’s occasion, freshman Gavin Ray received his first two collegiate occasions on Friday after he positioned first within the 1,000 free (10:03.59) and the five hundred free along with his time of 4:52.56. Fellow freshman Luke Nagle positioned second in each the 1,000 free (10:08.69) and 500 free (4:52.73).

Junior Tom McCabe and senior Sam Vidal made it a 1-2 end for the Griffs within the 200 free, with McCabe inserting first (1:44.47) and Vidal taking second (1.44.78). Junior Elliot Somers and freshman Alex Schuler turned in one other 1-2 consequence within the males’s 100 again as Somers (51.47) claimed first and Schuler positioned second (53.95). Somers additionally received the 200-yard backstroke as effectively by greater than six seconds along with his time of 1:54.17.

Senior Toby Mayfield recorded a pair of wins on the evening for the Blue and Gold, as he took first within the 200 butterfly, inserting almost 5 seconds forward of the second-place finisher with a time of 1:55.93. Mayfield got here again and received the 100-yard butterfly race as effectively, touching the wall with a time of fifty.74.

UP NEXT

Canisius travels to Vestal, N.Y., on Nov. 1 for a twin meet towards Binghamton. Start time for the meet between the Griffs and Bearcats is slated for 1 p.m. on the Patricia A. Saunders Aquatic Center.

 

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