WORCESTER, Mass. – Visiting Binghamton posted six double winners and swept all four relays, highlighting its sweep against Holy Cross in its season-opening dual meet on Friday evening at the Hart Center Pool. The Bearcat won 197-103 while the men recorded a 170.5-129.5 victory.
On the women's freshman
Haley Nowak won a pair of individual events and was on both first-place relay teams. She swept the 100 fly (57.96) and 200 fly (2:08.21). The rest of the first-place 200 medley relay team included seniors
Courtney Moane and
Molly Greeley as well as sophomore
Olivia Philbrick. The other members of the winning 400 free relay team included Greeley, sophomore
Maria Pignatelli and senior
Maddie Hoover.
Hoover also captured a pair of individual events, winning the 200 free (1:55.15) and the 100 free (53.74). Other double winners included junior
Lauren Kuzma in the 200 breast (2:21.07) and 200 IM (2:11.00) and sophomore
Elizabeth Tirado in both diving events (240.30 in the one-meter and 244.30 in the three meter).
Other individual winners for the Bearcat women included Philbrick in the 100 back (58.62), Greeley in the 50 free (24.72) and senior
Skylar Ward in the 1000 free (10:46.81).
The Bearcat men. Meanwhile, were led by sophomore
Liam Preston and junior
Elijah Lanfear. Each of them won two events and swam on a first-place relay.
Preston took top honors in the 200 free (1:41.62) and 200 back (1:54.92). He also joined seniors
Henry Shemet and
Liam Murphy as well as freshman
Cullin Cole in the 400 free relay. Together, they recorded a first-place time of 3:08.48.
Lanfear, meanwhile, was first in the 100 free (46.95) and the 100 fly (50.22). He also teamed with seniors
Jake Vecchio,
Eric Kroon and
Mark Crocker in the 200 medley relay. The Bearcat quartet clocked a winning time of 1:35.88.
Other individual winners on the men's side included Vecchio in the 200 fly and sophomore
David Ponce in the 100 back (54.07).
Binghamton stays on the road and travels to Bryant on Saturday for an 11 a.m. dual meet.
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