By: Brendon Reese
WOOSTER, Ohio – Mount Union's men's swimming and diving team finished in second place following the final day at the Wooster Invitational on Saturday evening.
The Purple Raiders finished with a team score of 1690 which was 226 points ahead of third place Wooster. Rose-Hulman won the event with a team score of 1730.
Top Finishers
- 100-yard individual medley: freshman Trey Nickoli (Lexington) finished third with a time of 54.77
- 200-yard backstroke: senior Jacob Hathaway (Lexington) won the event with a time of 1:50.59
- 100-yard freestyle: freshman Ethan Harvey (Macedonia / St. Ignatius) won the event with a time of 45.86 and senior Lucas Starling (Lexington) finished third with a time of 46.24
- 200-yard breaststroke: Nickoli finished fourth with a time of 2:07.93
- 200-yard butterfly: freshman Isaac Tennant (Pittsburgh, Pa. / Moon) finished third with a time of 1:58.04
- 400-yard freestyle relay: team consisting of Harvey, Tennant, Starling and Hathaway won the event with a time of 3:05.91
Team Scores
- Rose-Hulman 1730, 2. Mount Union 1690, 3. Wooster 1464, 4. Frostburg State 895, 5. Shawnee State 849, 6. Albion 625, T7. Kalamazoo and Westminster 249, 9. Heidelberg 187, 10. Wittenberg 194
The Raiders are off until after Christmas Break and will hit the road when they return on Friday, January 16 to take on Ashland at 6 p.m.
