Males’s Swimming & Diving Closes Common Season with 15 Occasion Wins Over Columbia

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The Navy males’s swimming and diving staff (12-1) positioned first, second and third in eight occasions on its option to successful 15 occasions and posting a 153-130 victory over Columbia (2-4), Friday afternoon at Lejeune Hall in Annapolis.

The victory within the staff’s final twin meet of the season offers the Mids 12 wins for the primary time for the reason that 2015-16 season when in addition they completed the 12 months with a 12-1 document.

“We had some solid performances today,” stated Navy males’s swimming head coach Bill Roberts.  “We also had some performances in which we need to improve upon, as well.  This is often the case with any competition, however today especially as we are going to look very closely at these performances to determine where we need to make some gains for the upcoming championship season.”

Navy started the day by inserting first (1:28.73) and second (1:28.74) within the 200 medley relay.  Chase Maier then received the primary particular person occasion of the meet, the 1000 freestyle, by eight seconds together with his time of 9:17.79.  A 1-2 end for Navy ensued within the 200 freestyle as Martin Perecinsky (1:39.39) edged teammate Kellan Pattison (1:39.64) for the victory.

The Mids claimed the gold, silver and bronze medalists in every of the subsequent 5 occasions.

Ben Irwin began the run with a victory within the 100 again (49.28).  Michael Phillips adopted by successful the 100 breast (55.01), with Evan O’Dea subsequent successful the 200 fly (1:50.38).  Ben Denman-Grimm would win the 50 free (20.13) and Finn Gelbach positioned first in one-meter diving (289.13) to shut the primary half of the meet.

Denman-Grimm began the second half of the slate with a victory within the 100 free (43.97).  Irwin and Phillips joined him as multi-event winners as the previous received the 200 again (1:49.59) and the latter received the 200 breast (2:00.61).  Maier subsequent picked up his second victory of the day as he received the five hundred free (4:30.90).  Dean Jones received the 100 fly (48.77), Anthony Sciulli positioned first in three-meter diving (310.13) and Gio Aguirre received the 200 IM (1:50.21) to complete the person occasion portion of the meet.

The Lions received the meet-ending 200 freestyle relay.

The Mids will play host to the multi-team Navy Invitational on Jan. 31 in what would be the staff’s final meet previous to beginning the championship portion of its schedule.