Men's Swimming | 10/19/2019 12:30:00 AM

COMPLETE RESULTS

WEST CHESTER, Pa. - The Bloomsburg University men's swimming team opened the 2019-20 regular season at West Chester University on Friday night with a tri-meet against the Golden Rams and Division I Lehigh University. The Huskies fell to West Chester, 166-70, and suffered a 186-44 setback against the Mountain Hawks. Bloomsburg had some excellent early-season swims on Friday night as the Huskies totaled 18 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) qualifiers.

Bloomsburg had 14 different swimmers post conference-qualifying times on Friday night with only four - senior Corey Smith (Lansdale, Pa./North Penn), junior Collin Hummel (Lewisburg, Pa./Lewisburg), junior Noah Cancro (Limerick, Pa./Spring-Ford), and sophomore Colton Schnars (Bellefonte, Pa./Bellefonte) - finishing with more than one as they each got under the standard in two different events.

Smith took care of the distance events as he finished fifth in the 1000-yard freestyle with a time of 10:12.63 and sixth in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:59.52. Hummel sprinted his way to a second-place finish in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 21.55 and then a fourth-place result in the 100-yard freestyle after touching the wall in 48.24. Cancro was seventh in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:02.14 and eighth in the 200-yard breaststroke, posting a time of 2:18.85, while Schnars was sixth in the 200-yard individual medley (2:02.00) and fifth in the 200-yard backstroke (1:59.68).

Redshirt senior Kyle Dix (Schwenksville, Pa./Perkiomen Valley) was third in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:45.24 and then was the lead leg in the 200-yard freestyle relay team that placed second on Friday night in 1:25.38.

Freshman Luke Emig (Horsham, PA/Hatboro - Horsham) and sophomore Pat Agnew (Pottstown, Pa./Pottsgrove) joined Hummel as conference qualifiers in the 50-yard freestyle. Emig posted a time of 22.05 while Agnew was right behind in 22.22. Senior Sean Finias (Cherry Hill, N.J./Cherry Hill East) made a return to the pool and posted a PSAC-qualifying time of 2:03.93 in the 200-yard butterfly. Junior Jordan Wyant (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Trinity) and freshman Luke Scoboria (Birdsboro, PA/Exeter) joined Hummel as qualifiers in the 100-yard freestyle. Wyant swam a time of 49.25 while Scoboria was right on his heels, touching in 49.27. Freshman Blake Nesbitt (Wind Gap, PA/Nazareth) qualified with Schnars in the 200-yard backstroke after swimming a time of 2:02.15.

In the 500-yard freestyle, freshmen Ryan Keenan (Collegeville, Pa./Perkiomen Valley) and Jimmy Greek (Garnet Valley/Garnet Valley) joined Smith as conference qualifiers with Keenan posting a time of 5:02.94 while Greek touched in 5:04.23. Junior Chris Gleason (Philadelphia, Pa./Father Judge) was the Huskies' final qualifier of the night as he posted Bloomsburg's best time in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:17.29.

The Huskies will be back in action on Saturday, October 26, as they host Susquehanna University at the Nelson Field House Pool on Homecoming Weekend. Action is scheduled to get underway at 11:00 a.m.