Swimming & Diving Defeated By La Salle In Dual Meet Action

Highlanders pick up five individual event victories

PHILADELPHIA --- Despite four Highlanders combining for five individual victories, The NJIT men's swimming and diving lost a 183 -116 road meet to the La Salle Explorers Saturday afternoon.

"I am very happy with the way the men stepped and raced against a very good La Salle team. We had contributions across the board today. It was good to finally get up and race against someone other than our own team. I am really looking forward to see how we improve upon this performance next week against another tough Atlantic-10 team at Fordham," Highlander head coach Ron Farina said after the meet.

Nicholas Lyons led the way for NJIT with a pair of breaststroke victories in the 100 and 200 races. Alon Lerner picked up the Highlanders' lone win by a freshman after pacing the field in the 1000 Free while teammate and fellow newcomer Jake Nelms ended the race in third place. Joshua Franco used a strong end of his 200 Free race to tally another NJIT triumph and Edward Madrigal wrapped up NJIT's winning efforts with his victory in the 200 IM.

NJIT VICTORIES VS LA SALLE
1000 Free: Alon Lerner - 9:57.37
200 Free: Joshua Franco - 1:42.66
100 Breast: Nicholas Lyons - 57.73
200 Breast: Nicholas Lyons - 2:08.80
200 IM: Edward Madrigal - 2:01.75

OTHER NOTES

NJIT competed in the diving portion of the meet with its full lineup of divers - Cole Becker, Itay Bachar, and Max Hafen - for the first time this season. Becker led NJIT with third place showings in both the 3-meter and 1-meter dives.
Mattheau Bonner was a part of four runner-up performances - two individually (200 Fly, 100 Fly) and two in relays (200 Free Relay, 400 Medley Relay).