New Haven, Conn. - Junior Drew Acquaviva (Delmar, N.Y./Bethlehem) won two individual events and teamed on a pair of relay victories to lead the Le Moyne College men's swimming and diving team to a fourth-place finish at the Northeast-10 Conference Championships hosted by Southern Connecticut State at Hutchinson Natatorium from Friday to Sunday. Classmate Katie O'Donnell (Delmar, N.Y./Bethlehem) led the women's squad to a fourth-place finish with an individual win and two second-place finishes.
In the men's team competition, Le Moyne scored 488 points to place fourth, up a spot from last year. Southern Connecticut State ran away with first place with 812 points to register its seventh Northeast-10 Championship in the last eight years. The College of Saint Rose tallied 546 points for second place, while Bentley, which won last year's Championship, placed third with 519 points. Pace totaled 395 points for fifth, Adelphi recorded 304 for sixth and Saint Michael's wrapped up the standings with 177 points.
On the women's side, the Dolphins tallied 445 points to place fourth. Southern Connecticut State placed first with 955 points to win the team title for the eighth consecutive season. Bentley finished second with 624 points, while Saint Rose came in third with 495 points. Assumption (427), Pace (390), Saint Michael's (217) and Adelphi (142) rounded out the standings.
On the men's side, Acquaviva picked up his first individual victory of the competition by placing first in the 100-yard backstroke for the second straight year in an NCAA "B"-cut time of 50.79 seconds. He was the top seed in the finals after setting the Northeast-10 record in the preliminaries with a time of 50.72 seconds. In Sunday's fourth event, Acquaviva touched the wall first in the 200-yard backstroke for the second consecutive year with an NCAA "B"-cut time of 1:53.24, his fastest time of the year by over two seconds. He also added a second-place finish in the 50-yard freestyle with a season-best time of 21.55 seconds.
Acquaviva also teamed on a pair of relay victories. In Friday's first event, Acquaviva joined senior Sean Hosford (Garden City, N.Y./Garden City), sophomore Scott Thieke (Jamesville, N.Y./Jamesville-DeWitt) and freshman Tyler Olson (Warners, N.Y./West Genesee) to win the 200-yard freestyle relay in a conference-record time of 1:25.57. The quartet of Acquaviva, Olson, Hosford and sophomore James Walker (Liverpool, N.Y./Liverpool) opened Saturday's competition placing first in the 200-yard medley relay in a pool-record time of 1:36.37. The Dolphins also finished in the top-five in two other relay events over the weekend. To close out Saturday's competition, Thieke, Olson and freshmen Connor Agen (Camillus, N.Y./West Genesee) and Greg Sanzari (Newington, Conn./Newington) teamed to place fifth in the 800-yard freestyle relay with a time of 7:24.53. To cap the meet, Olson, Acquaviva, Thieke and Hosford placed second in the 400-yard freestyle relay in a season-best time of 3:10.38.
Thieke added a pair of third-place finishes over the three days. He touched the wall third in 2:00.16 in the 200-yard IM on Friday and finished the 400-yard IM in 4:22.12 on Saturday. Hosford registered a fourth-place finish in the 100-yard freestyle with a season-best time of 47.72 seconds.
O'Donnell picked up her third career Northeast-10 win by placing first in the 100-yard backstroke for the second time in three years with an NCAA "B"-cut time of 57.45 seconds. She recorded her first second-place finish of the meet in the 200-yard IM on Friday with an NCAA "B"-cut and season-best time of 2:06.99, the fourth-fastest time in history in the event at the Northeast-10 Championships. O'Donnell wrapped up her weekend by touching the wall in the 100-yard freestyle in an NCAA "B"-cut and school-record time of 53.32 seconds, but was edged out for first place by just one one-hundredth of a second.
O'Donnell was also a member of four top-five relay squads. She teamed with seniors Sarah Salanger (Syracuse, N.Y./West Genesee) and Maggie Donovan (Oswego, N.Y./Oswego) and classmate Mary Chidsey (Liverpool, N.Y./Liverpool) to place second in the meet-opening 200-yard freestyle relay with a school-record time of 1:39.11, eclipsing the previous record by 0.35 seconds. In Saturday's first event, Salanger, O'Donnell, Chidsey and sophomore Jacqueline Daly (Middletown, N.Y./Pine Bush) posted a season-best time of 1:50.17 to place fourth in the 200-yard medley relay. In Saturday's last event, O'Donnell, Chidsey, Salanger and freshman Allie Scorzelli (Mexico, N.Y./Mexico) finished second in the 800-yard freestyle relay in 8:00.35. To close out the Championship, Chidsey, Salanger, Donovan and O'Donnell registered a fifth-place finish in the 400-yard freestyle relay in a season-best 3:39.22.
Salanger added three top-four finishes over the three days, while Scorzelli added a fifth-place finish. Salanger placed fourth in the 500-yard freestyle (5:12.69), third in the 200-yard freestyle (1:56.67) and fourth in the 100-yard freestyle (54.52). Scorzelli's fifth-place finish came in the 400-yard IM with a season-best 4:50.32.
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Women's Team Results
1. Southern Connecticut State 955, 2. Bentley 624, 3. Saint Rose 495, 4. Le Moyne 445, 5. Assumption 427, 6. Pace 390, 7. Saint Michael's 217, 8. Adelphi 142.
Women's Individual Winners
200 Yard Freestyle Relay – Southern Connecticut State (Jennifer O'Neil, Nicole Caron, Sarah Thompson, Anna Pleban) 1:38.95, 500 Yard Freestyle – Monique Haney (Assumption) 5:04.83, 200 Yard IM – Amanda Thomas (Southern Connecticut State) 2:02.50, 50 Yard Freestyle – Jennifer O'Neil (Southern Connecticut State) 24.32, 1 mtr Diving – Lauren Sasso (Southern Connecticut State) 375.75, 400 Yard Medley Relay – Southern Connecticut State (Amanda Thomas, Jennifer O'Neil, Anna Pleban, Nicole Huerta) 3:54.91, 200 Yard Medley Relay – Southern Connecticut State (Amanda Thomas, Jennifer O'Neil, Anna Pleban, Nicole Huerta) 1:47.91, 400 Yard IM – Amanda Thomas (Southern Connecticut State) 4:20.76, 100 Yard Butterfly – Anne Kaduboski (Bentley) 57.12 (NE-10 Record), 200 Yard Freestyle – Caitlin Peterson (Saint Rose) 1:54.83, 100 Yard Breaststroke – Jennifer O'Neil (Southern Connecticut State) 1:05.41, 100 Yard Backstroke – Katie O'Donnell (Le Moyne) 57.45, 800 Yard Freestyle Relay – Southern Connecticut State (Meghan Fay, Kayla Wainwright, Caitlyn Salter, Nicole Huerta) 7:52.17, 1650 Yard Freestyle – Caitlin Peterson (Saint Rose) 17:30.29, 200 Yard Backstroke – Sarah Thompson (Southern Connecticut State) 2:03.86, 100 Yard Freestyle – Eileen Mullowney (Saint Michael's) 53.31, 200 Yard Breaststroke – Jennifer O'Neil (Southern Connecticut State) 2:21.10, 200 Yard Butterfly – Amanda Thomas (Southern Connecticut State) 2:01.23 (NE-10 Record), 3 mtr Diving – Lauren Sasso (Southern Connecticut State) 358.35, 400 Yard Freestyle Relay – Southern Connecticut State (Jennifer O'Neil, Anna Pleban, Nicole Huerta, Amanda Thomas) 3:36.25.
Men's Team Results
1. Southern Connecticut State 812, 2. Saint Rose 546, 3. Bentley 519, 4. Le Moyne 488, 5. Pace 395, 6. Adelphi 304, 7. Saint Michael's 177.
Men's Individual Winners
200 Yard Freestyle Relay – Le Moyne (Scott Thieke, Drew Acquaviva, Tyler Olson, Sean Hosford) 1:25.57 (NE-10 & Pool Record), 500 Yard Freestyle – Matt Sorena (Southern Connecticut State) 4:36.01 (NE-10 Record), 200 Yard IM – Vadim Yafayev (Saint Rose) 1:53.18, 50 Yard Freestyle – Miguel Nesrala (Southern Connecticut State) 21.21, 3 mtr Diving – Chad Snyder (Southern Connecticut State) 438.35, 400 Yard Medley Relay – Southern Connecticut State (Oscar Castillo, Austin Mizzell, Matt Sorena, Miguel Nesrala) 3:25.64, 200 Yard Medley Relay – Le Moyne (Drew Acquaviva, James Walker, Sean Hosford, Tyler Olson) 1:36.37 (Pool Record), 400 Yard IM – Vadim Yafayev (Saint Rose) 4:01.34 (NE-10 Record), 100 Yard Butterfly – Kevin Dickson (Pace) 51.75, 200 Yard Freestyle – Michael Fridman (Pace) 1:41.93, 100 Yard Breaststroke – Austin Mizzell (Southern Connecticut State) 57.40 (NE-10 Record), 100 Yard Backstroke - Drew Acquaviva (Le Moyne) 50.79, 1 mtr Diving – Chad Snyder (Southern Connecticut State) 428.60, 800 Yard Freestyle Relay – Saint Rose (Ryan Brauer, Vadim Yafayev, Joseph Krok, Kyle Wilson) 7:00.72, 1650 Yard Freestyle – Kyle Wilson (Saint Rose) 16:35.99, 200 Yard Backstroke - Drew Acquaviva (Le Moyne) 1:53.24 (NCAA "B" Cut), 100 Yard Freestyle – Miguel Nesrala (Southern Connecticut State) 45.72, 200 Yard Breaststroke – Austin Mizzell (Southern Connecticut State) 2:03.20, 200 Yard Butterfly – Matt Sorena (Southern Connecticut State) 1:52.90 (NE-10 Record), 400 Yard Freestyle Relay – Southern Connecticut State (Austin Mizzell, Domenick Errico, Matt Sorena, Miguel Nesrala) 3:08.13 (NE-10 Record).
