NORTON, Mass. – The Wheaton College (Mass.) men's swimming & diving team defeated Springfield College, 175-118, and fell to No. 25 United States Coast Guard Academy, 224-69, today in a double-dual meet at Balfour Natatorium on the Wheaton campus in Norton, Mass.
Coast Guard also defeated Springfield, 214-85.
The Lyons are now 2-2 on the season, while Coast Guard improves to a perfect 5-0. Springfield falls to 0-5.
Coast Guard won 12 events, while Springfield and Wheaton each won a pair of events.
Sophomore Marcus Tran (Milton, Mass.) won the 50-yard freestyle for the Lyons with a time of 21.28 and was second overall, while defeating Springfield in the 100-yard freestyle with a mark of 47.06. First year Kale Copeland (Greenfield, Mass.) topped the field in the 500-yard freestyle with a mark of 4:56.98 and also finished fourth overall with a time of 1:49.80, which was good enough to top Springfield in the 200-yard freestyle.
Wheaton senior Kevin Rice (Vienna, Va.) bested Springfield in both the 1000-yard freestyle (10:19.18) and the 200-yard individual medley (2:06.26), while finishing as the runner-up to the Pride in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 5:04.14. First year Boden Spirn (Bedford, Mass.) placed first against Springfield in the 200-yard butterfly with a mark of 2:01.13 and was second against the Pride in both the 100-yard backstroke (56.05) and the 200-yard backstroke (2:04.47). Sophomores Abel Haller (Needham, Mass.) and Leo Bailon Garcia (Guatemala City, Guatemala) picked up a win each and a runner-up effort against Springfield. Haller defeated the Pride in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:22.12 and was second in the 100-yard breaststroke with a clip of 1:03.10, while Bailon Garcia topped Springfield in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 54.48 and was second against the Pride in the 200-yard butterfly with a mark of 2:03.16. Junior Aidan Saunders (Harpswell, Maine) topped Springfield in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:02.58.
The Lyons outswam Springfield in both relays as well. Spirn led off the 400-yard medley relay in the backstroke, before Haller followed in the breaststroke and Bailon Garcia in the butterfly. Tran closed out the race in the final 100 yards in the freestyle to combine on a time of 3:37.26. Haller, Copeland, junior Koby Wulfmeyer (New Paltz, N.Y.) and Tran put together a time of 3:15.34 in the 400-yard freestyle relay to defeat Springfield to close out the meet.
Coast Guard won both relays behind sophomore Baylor Weiler (Lexington, Ky.), first year Hudson Newsom (Littleton, Colo.), senior Noah Reice (Wilmington, Del.) and first year Ben Hinds (Rochester, N.Y.) with a time of 3:25.36 in the 400-yard medley relay. Hinds, Reice, junior Grant Hudson (Peachtree City, Ga.) and junior Patrick Young (Lucinda, Pa.) gave the Bears their second relay win with a mark of 3:08.88 in the 400-yard freestyle relay.
Weiler, Reice and first year Adriel Sun (Torrance, Calif.) all won a pair of events with the fastest times in the meet. Weiler dominated the backstroke events with the top times in the 100-yard (52.99) race and the 200-yard (1:57.31) event. Reice won the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 1:57.74 and was first in the 100-yard freestyle with a mark of 46.06. Sun touched first in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:09.22 and captured the 200-yard individual medley with a clip of 1:59.32. First year Josh DeMarco (Trenton, N.J.) placed first in the 1000-yard freestyle with a time of 10:16.54, while Young took first place in the 200-yard freestyle with a mark of 1:45.05. Newsom won the 100-yard breaststroke (57.54) and Hinds topped the field in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 51.25.
Springfield dominated the diving events with a pair of victories. Junior Tyler Khongkham (East Hampton, Conn.) won on both boards with a score of 233.15 on the one-meter board and 255.23 points on the three-meter board.
Wheaton returns to the pool on Friday, November 20 when it hosts the first day of the Chuck Nugent Invitational at 10:00 a.m., while Springfield hosts Skidmore College on November 14 at 12:00 p.m. and Coast Guard heads to Wellesley, Mass. on November 12 to swim Wellesley College at 6:00 p.m.
