BALTIMORE -- A total team effort paced the UMBC Men's Swimming & Diving team past visiting La Salle, 147-96, on Saturday afternoon.
Grant Moore won the 1M dive with a score of 291.80, and then took third in the 3M with a score of 251.20.
The 400 medley relay team of
Turner Wiand,
Elliot Fielder,
Axel Mori and
Matthew So won in a time of (3:22.08), and
Joey Kerkman followed that by winning the 1000 free in a time of 10:40.93.
Tyler Kay (1:41.90),
Andrew McEachern (1:43.40) and
Garrett Jones (1:45.34) swept the podium in the 200 free, before
Braden Weise (20.79) and
Stefano Perez (20.84) went 1-2 in the 50 free.
Adam Černák (1:52.36) and Perez (1:54.52) went 2-3 in the 200 fly, while in the 100 free, So took first (45.12), Weise finished third (47.70) and Jones placed fourth (48.20).
Wiand and
Quinn Marchionini used times of 1:54.29 and 1:54.54, respectively, to place second and third in the 200 back, and Kerkman (4:43.52),
Nick Zaharescu (4:49.90),
Christian Castro (4:50.45) and McEachern (4:51.72) took spots 2-5 in the 500 free.
Fielder (2:04.14) and
Matthew Johnson (2:09.35) went 1-2 in the 200 breaststroke, before the 200 free relay team of Weise, Mori, So and Perez won the event in 1:22.08.
The meet was also Professor Appreciation as, Prior to the meet, the team welcomed professors and members of academic leadership who have been supportive of the program. To read about the ceremony
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UMBC concludes the first half of the season at the three day Bucknell Invitational beginning December 4.
