Wilkes Males’s Swimming Leads Electric City Invitational After One Day

The Wilkes University males’s swimming group competed alongside 4 different groups within the first day of the Electric City Invitational Friday night at Marywood University.

Full Results

The Colonels are at present in first place with 185 group factors after at some point of competitors. SUNY Oneonta is in second place with 136 factors, and proper behind them is King’s College with 133 factors. Lycoming is in fourth place with 88 factors, and Marywood finds themselves in fifth place with 48 factors.

The invitational started with the 200 yard medley relay and the Colonels fielded two groups for the occasion. The group of Ashton Dainty (Scranton, PA/Scranton), Tobias Misinay (Somerset, KY/Pulaski County), Maximilian Wilson (Manassas, VA/Seton), and Owen Lewis (Ellicott City, MD/Howard) completed in second place with a time of 1:41.07 and the group Jacob Piotrowski (Old Bridge, NJ/Old Bridge), Joshua Robinson (Richmond, VA/St. Christopher’s), Alton Smargiassi (Bloomsburg, PA/Central Columbia), and Luke Donato (Westerly, RI/Westerly) took fourth place with a 1:43.91.

Next up was the 1,650 yard freestyle and first-year Max Johnson (Clarksburg, MD/Clarksburg) got here out on high with a 17.28.91 time. Leo Miller (Oak Forest, IL/Oak Forest) earned bronze with an 18:28.74, Jack DeLuca (Easton, PA/Moravian Academy) completed in fifth place with an 18:57.85, after which Caleb Keener (Shrewsbury, PA/Susquehannock) rounded out the Wilkes swimmers with a 19:17.90 and a sixth place end.

The remaining occasion of the primary day was the 200 yard freestyle relay with the Colonels competing with two groups as soon as once more. The group of Lewis, Donato, Dainty, and DJ Hammond (Stone Mountain, GA/Stephenson) completed in third with a time of 1:30.48, and the group of DeLuca, Johnson, Miller, and Smargiassi took sixth place with a 1:36.89.

The Colonels look to proceed this spectacular begin going into day two of the Electric City Invitational, which begins tomorrow at 9 a.m.