Males’s Swimming Sweeps Elizabethtown on Senior Day

LANCASTER, Pa.- The Franklin & Marshall males’s swimming workforce (5-4, 3-2 Centennial Conference) celebrated Senior Day with a commanding 182-74 win over visiting Elizabethtown (4-5, 2-3 Landmark Conference), profitable all 14 occasions in Sunday’s meet. 

In complete, F&M had 28 top-three finishes plus the 14 victories.

F&M earned occasion wins in each relay races, as Thomas Smolinski, Joe Clarkson, Ben Lockey, and Brady Saunders earned a 200 freestyle relay win and Nick Lowell, Patrick Rooney, Noah Drexler, and Smolinski received the 200 medley relay. 

Lockey led the way in which individually with three occasions wins within the 100 freestyle, 50 breaststroke, and 100 IM. His time of 54.63 within the 100 IM moved him up a spot within the F&M efficiency record, as he now holds the eighth-best time within the occasion. 

Lockey led a sweep of the top-three spots in each the 100 freestyle and 50 breaststroke. He was adopted by Connor Marshall and Riley Williams within the 100 freestyle, whereas Luke Healey and Rooney earned second and third, respectively, within the 50 breaststroke. 

Lowell received each particular person backstroke races that included the 50 backstroke and 100 backstroke. Edward Vonne claimed second place within the 50 backstroke, whereas Sam Kamdin accomplished a top-three sweep within the occasion. Ethan Ferris earned silver within the 100 backstroke.

In the opposite shorter freestyle races, Smolinski and Williams earned the highest two spots, whereas Matthew Tilghman received the 200 freestyle adopted by Marshall in second place.

Vonne and Drexler earned distance freestyle wins, as Vonne received the five hundred freestyle with Kamdin in third place, whereas Drexler earned the victory within the 1000 freestyle.

Jared Gallegos received the 50 butterfly adopted by Rooney and Drexler. Ferris claimed the occasion victory within the 100 butterfly whereas Gallegos adopted in second place.  

Rooney claimed first place within the 100 breaststroke with Tilghman in third place. 

The males’s swimming workforce will return for subsequent month’s Centennial Conference Swimming Championship from Thursday, February 19 by way of Sunday, February 22. 

Franklin & Marshall Top 3 Finishes

Noah Drexler

• 50 Butterfly (25.25, third)
• 1000 Freestyle (10:42.47, 1st)

Ethan Ferris

• 100 Butterfly (53.67, 1st)
• 100 Backstroke (57.56, 2nd)

Jared Gallegos

• 50 Butterfly (24.78, 1st)
• 100 Butterfly (56.56, 2nd)

Luke Healey 

• 50 Breaststroke (27.52, 2nd)

Sam Kamdin

• 50 Backstroke (28.18, third)
• 500 Freestyle (5:31.43, third)

Ben Lockey

• 50 Breaststroke (27.32, 1st)
• 100 Freestyle (48.02, 1st)
• 100 IM (54.63, 1st) (Moves from ninth to eighth in Program History)

Nick Lowell

• 50 Backstroke (25.62, 1st)
• 100 Backstroke (55.94, 1st)

Connor Marshall

• 100 Freestyle (50.70, 2nd)
• 200 Freestyle (1:54.08, 2nd)

Patrick Rooney

• 50 Breaststroke (28.51, third)
• 100 Breaststroke (1:01.33, 1st)
• 50 Butterfly (24.98, 2nd)

Thomas Smolinski

• 50 Freestyle (22.212, 1st)

Matthew Tilghman

• 200 Freestyle (1:53.18, 1st)
• 100 Breaststroke (1:06.92, third)

Edward Vonne

• 50 Backstroke (27.97, 2nd)
• 500 Freestyle (5:04.60, 1st)

Riley Williams

• 50 Freestyle (23.18, 2nd)
• 100 Freestyle (53.30, third)

200 Freestyle Relay
    1. Thomas Smolinski, Joe Clarkson, Ben Lockey, Brady Saunders (1:32.29)

200 Medley Relay
    1. Nick Lowell, Patrick Rooney, Noah Drexler, Thomas Smolinski (1:39.17)