Navy Men Win Three Occasions to Lead Discipline at League Swimming and Diving Meet

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A sweep of all three occasions boosted the Navy males’s swimming and diving workforce to a 42-point lead after an abbreviated day one on the Patriot League Swimming and Diving Championship at Lejeune Hall in Annapolis.  Navy accrued 215 factors within the three occasions to higher Army’s second-place rating of 173.

Army gained each of the contested girls’s races with Navy ending in second place in every to provide the Black Knights a 16-point lead (128-112) on the Mids.

200 Medley Relay

Women

Army entered the meet because the top-seeded workforce and the Black Knights made their seed maintain up as they posted a time of 1:38.37 to edge the second-place effort of 1:38.85 by Navy.  Both groups bettered the meet document (1:39.15) and Army additionally was underneath the league document (1:38.48).

Men

The Black Knights had registered the highest time within the league this season (1:22.95), however tonight they have been surpassed by each Navy and Loyola. The Mids completed the race in a time of 1:23.55 to higher the meet (1:23.74) and Navy (1:23.80) information.  The foursome of Ben Irwin, Juan Mora, Lachlan Andrew and Ben Denman-Grimm gave the Mids the victory by one-tenth of a second over Loyola, with Army putting third in a clocking of 1:23.80.

“There was a lot of anticipation heading into tonight’s events and especially with the 200 medley relay,” stated Navy males’s swimming head coach Bill Roberts.  “This is a very competitive event in the Patriot League as we were taking nothing for granted.  We knew going in we could have a school record setting relay, yet end up placing third.”

Army was in first place after the 50 yards of the backstroke with a 20.57, whereas Loyola was in second at 20.78 and the Mids have been in third with a time of 21.32.  The placings shifted after the breaststroke because the Greyhounds led at 44.02, the Mids have been in second at 44.28 and Army fell to 3rd at 43.45.  The Black Knights moved again into first place after the butterfly with a time of 1:04.63, Loyola fell to second place with a clocking of 1:04.69 and Navy dropped to 3rd with a 1:05.01.  Denman-Grimm recorded a blistering time of 18.58 in his 50 yards of freestyle swimming to provide the Mids the dramatic victory by four-hundredths of a second over the Greyhounds and 21-hundredths of a second over the third-place Black Knights.

“This has to be one of the most exciting relay races I have witnessed in my entire coaching career,” stated Roberts.  “I am so happy for these four who were able to get to the wall first.”

Men’s Three-Meter Diving

Three Mids superior to the eight-diver championship remaining.  Anthony Sciulli led the best way (355.85), Finn Gelbach was second (346.40) and Luke Ogren was eighth (297.80).  The Navy trio was even higher at evening because it swept all three podium positions.  Gelbach claimed the title with a rating of 364.95, Ogren adopted in second place with a 347.55 and Sciulli earned the bronze medal with a rating of 341.70 factors.

800 Freestyle Relay

Women

Another shut race ensued within the 800 free relay as Army narrowly edged Navy for the victory. The Black Knights recorded a time of seven:13.83 to edge the Mids and their second-place clocking of seven:14.39.  

Army led by practically two seconds after 200 yards, then the Mids took a seven-tenths of a second lead after 400 yards.  The third leg was the place the Black Knights constructed a little bit cushion as that they had a complete time of 5:24.86 via 600 yards and Navy had accrued a clocking of 5:27.06.  Navy anchor swimmer Allie Maloney step by step lower down the deficit as she trailed by 2.12 seconds after 50 yards, 1.45 seconds after 100 yards and by 81-hudredths of a second after 150 yards.  In the top, although, she fell simply 56-hundredths of a second quick.

“There was amazing energy in Lejeune Hall and it led to a very good first night,” stated Navy girls’s swimming head coach John Morrison.  “Our goal was to outperform our relay teams from last year, and we accomplished that. We are excited for Thursday morning and look forward to keeping the momentum going.”

Men

In distinction, the Navy males’s workforce led from begin to end as its lead grew from practically 4 seconds after 200 yards, to nearly seven seconds on the midpoint of the race after which nearly eight seconds after the third leg.  The Mids –– Dean Jones, Xavier Sohovich, Martin Perecinsky, Benjamin Stankovich –– would end the race in a time of 6:13.34 to win by over 13 seconds to shatter the college, pool and league information (6:18.54) and meet document (6:18.52).

Army positioned second with a time of 6:26.62.

Women’s Scores

1. Army – 128

2. Navy – 112

3. Bucknell – 104

T4. Loyola – 100

T4. Lehigh – 100

T6. Boston – 94

T6. Colgate – 94

8. American – 92

9. Holy Cross – 84

10. Lafayette 689

Men’s Score

1. Navy – 215

2. Army – 173

3. Boston – 159

4. Bucknell – 147

5. Loyola – 135

6. Holy Cross – 126

T7. Lehigh – 98

T7. American – 98

9. Lafayette – 96

10. Colgate – 91