NEWARK, NJ – While celebrating Senior Day, NJIT swimming and diving finished the home season undefeated after beating Howard 176-27 and Manhattan 130.50-74.50 Saturday afternoon in the Fleisher Athletic Center pool. Overall, the Highlanders completed the regular season with an 8-4 record
Senior
Gene Tutzauer, in his last home contest as a Highlander, placed third in the 1000-yard freestyle and the 500-yard freestyle, finishing in10:39.82 and 5:14.27, respectively. Senior diver
David Schmidt did not participate in today's meet as there were no diving events, but he will compete with his team at the CCSA Championships in Georgia.
During the 200-yard freestyle relay, sophomore
Michael Sungurov, junior
Christian Giglio, junior
Maxim Tillman and junior
Brian Capozzola, placed first, coming it at 1:27.51.
Capozzola added two more first-place finishes to his day, completing the 50-yard freestyle in 20.95 and the 100-yard freestyle in 46.32.Giglio was second during the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 55.04 and Sungurov added second-place finishes in the 200-yard freestyle (1:47.97) and the 100-yard freestyle (49.70).
Junior
Richard Seffrin and Tillman placed 1-2 in both the 100- yard freestyle swimming in 9:59.91 and 10:17.39, respectively, and the 500-yard freestyle, with Seffrin finishing in 4:54.86 and Tillman in 4:58.50.
Freshmen
Collin Moore and
Scott Quirie each had themselves a pair of first-place finishes. Moore swam the 200-yard freestyle in 1:47.66 and the 100-yard butterfly in 52.80, while Quirie swam the 200 yard IM in 1:58.23 and the 100-yard backstroke in 53.83.
In the 100-yard breaststroke, junior
Jonathan Drori was second with a time of 1:04.05, while sophomore teammate
Timothy Sullivan swam in 1:08.70 and freshman
Alexander Hilsamer in 1:09.18
Sophomore
Jack Matusiak tied for third place in the 50-yard freestyle coming in at 22.67. Freshman
Edward Mann swam the 200-yard IM in 2:07.28 and sophomore
Joseph Pedo finished the 100-yard freestyle in 52.71. In the 100-yard butterfly, sophomore
Adam Bransky finished with a time of 58.84 and junior
Joseph Nguyen a time of 1:01.03.
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