WASHINGTON - The Gallaudet University men's swimming team lost a close North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) meet to SUNY Cobleskill, 133-120, here Saturday in the Field House pool.
The meet came down to the final few events as the top two teams in the NEAC traded event wins.
Gallaudet (2-8, 2-1 NEAC) won four of the 14 events as the depth of the Bison team helped to keep them in the meet. In the process, GU set 15 personal best times.
SUNY Cobleskill (7-4, 3-0 NEAC) came away with 10 victories, including one relay event.
The meet featured the top two swimmers in the conference in Gallaudet junior Ben Sealts (Ottawa, Ohio) and SUNY Cobleskill junior Daniel Mullen, who were 2019 NEAC Co-Swimmer of the Year honorees.
Sealts came away with three first-place individual events and started the meet on Gallaudet's 400-yard medley relay team that won in 4:34.70. Sealts and Mullen went head-to-head in the 200-yard IM where Sealts touched the wall first in 2:05.89 to edge out Mullen (2:11.68).
Sealts added first-place wins in the 200-yard butterfly (2:12.55) and 200-yard backstroke (2:02.63).
The meet was senior day for GU's men's and women's swimmers. A trio of men's swimmers were honored including Lukas Morkevicius (Seattle, Wash.), Wolfgang Staley (Fairfax, Va.) and Solomon Worthey (San Diego, Calif.). The swimmers were honored by Gallaudet President Cordano and Bison swimming coach Larry Curran midway through the meet.
Sophomore Barry McGrain III (Hemlock, N.Y.) had three second-place finishes in in the 100- and 200-yard freestyle events with times of 1:00.60 and 2:11.87, respectively, along with the 100-yard butterfly (1:11.84).
Freshman Naveh Berner-Kadish (Takoma Park, N.Y.) was second in the 100-yard backstroke (1:16.91)
Sophomore Nick Hohrman (Fergus Falls, Minn.) was second in the 500- and 1,000-yard freestyles with times of 6:19.74 and 13:07.45, respectively.
Freshman Peter Tran (Fountain Valley, Calif.) finished second in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:32.62)
Morkevicius swam fast and placed second with a time of 29.39 to edge his teammate Berner-Kadish in third (30.54).
BISON TRACKS
- Freshman Andrew Makarewicz (Gaylord, Mich.) was third in the 200-yard backstroke (3:15.00) and 1,000-yard freestyle (15:06.54)
- Hohrman finished third in the 100-yard freestyle (1:01.04)
- Junior Rett Jala (McAllen, Texas) placed third in the 100-yard backstroke (1:17.67)
- Berner-Kadish finished third in the 200-yard breaststroke (3:11.45)
- Worthey was third in the 100- and 200-yard butterfly events with times of 1:12.66 and 3:20.96, respectively
GALLAUDET PERSONAL RECORDS
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New Time |
| 50 breaststroke |
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Naveh Berner-Kadish |
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43.41 |
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42.57 |
| 50 butterfly |
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Barry McGrain III |
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31.82 |
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31.51 |
| 50 freestyle |
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Octavio Maldonado |
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40.90 |
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39.03* |
| 100 backstroke |
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Naveh Berner-Kadish |
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1:18.60 |
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1:16.91 |
| 100 backstroke |
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Rett Jala |
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1:20.57 |
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1:17.67 |
| 100 breaststroke |
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Naveh Berner-Kadish |
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1:34.24 |
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1:31.73 |
| 100 breaststroke |
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Peter Tran |
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1:36.23 |
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1:32.62 |
| 100 butterfly |
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Barry McGrain III |
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1:13.26 |
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1:11.84 |
| 100 butterfly |
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Solomon Worthey |
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1:15.06 |
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1:12.66 |
| 100 freestyle |
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Solomon Worthey |
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1:12.49 |
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1:10.23 |
| 100 freestyle |
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Wolfgang Staley |
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1:23.44 |
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1:19.18* |
| 200 freestyle |
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Wolfgang Staley |
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2:58.89 |
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2:57.01 |
| 500 freestyle |
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Rett Jala |
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8:29.96 |
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7:58.98 |
| 500 freestyle |
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Wolfgang Staley |
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8:30.02 |
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8:05.90 |
| 1,000 freestyle |
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Andrew Makarewicz |
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15:47.25 |
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15:06.54 |
* = Relay
UP NEXT
This was Gallaudet's last regular-season swim meet before the 2020 North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) championship takes place Feb. 14-16 in Cobleskill, N.Y.
