Navy Defeats Towson to Stay Undefeated in Males’s Swimming and Diving

TOWSON, Md. — A run of 11-straight victories gave the Navy males’s swimming and diving workforce (9-0) a 175.5-119.5 win over Towson (3-2), Saturday at Burdick Pool in Towson.  Those 11 races have been received by 9 completely different Mids.

“The team did a terrific job with their racing today,” mentioned Navy head coach Bill Roberts.  “It has been a really difficult stretch of training and we are pleased with where they are at today coming after a challenging week.  We still have a long ways to go and are looking forward to getting right back to work on Monday and preparing for the next meet.”

The diving occasions have been held previous to the beginning of the swimming races, with the Tigers successful each boards to take a 25-12 lead.  The swimming occasions started with Navy inserting first and second within the 200 medley relay and Towson successful the 1000 freestyle.  The Tigers held a 38-35 benefit by these 4 occasions.

The Mids answered by successful the following 11 occasions, which included first, second and third-place finishes in six of these races to interrupt away from the Tigers.

Xavier Sohovich led a 1-2-3 Navy end within the 200 free with a successful time of 1:42.24.  Aaron Mendoza adopted by successful the 100 again together with his effort of fifty.19, then Juan Mora recorded a 55.32 to win the 100 breast.

Navy would declare the top-three spots in every of the following three occasions.  Evan O’Dea received the 200 fly (1:52.48), Lachlan Andrew touched the wall first within the 50 free (20.65) and Kellan Pattison positioned first within the 100 free (46.79).

Martin Perecinsky (1:52.36) and Michael Phillips (2:03.09) received the 200 again and 200 breast, respectively, then Luca Oliva posted the victory within the 500 free (4:38.05).  The Mids positioned first, second and third in each of the remaining particular person occasions, the 100 fly received by Andrew (49.98) and the 100 IM received by Mora (50.46).

Towson received the meet-closing 200 free relay.

The Navy males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving groups will play host to Delaware, Kenyon and Princeton Jan. 9-10 in Lejeune Hall.