Troy, N.Y. – Four different members of the Ithaca men's swimming & diving team (2-0) won two individual events to lead the Bombers to a 196-104 win at Rensselaer on Saturday.

Senior diver Derek Rand (Amity/Orange, Conn.), senior Jeff Rapp (Liverpool/Liverpool) freshman Clement Towner (Lansing/Lansing) and sophomore Cheffy Thomas (Carmel/Carmel, Ind.) won two events each.

Rand won the 1-meter diving with 283.40 points and 3-meter diving with 285.25 points, as both scores met the NCAA B provisional qualifying standard. Rapp won the 200-yard backstroke (2:02.38) and 200-yard individual medley (2:03.10). Towner won the 200- and 500-yard freestyle events with times of 1:46.81 in the 200 and 4:56.59 in the 500. Thomas won both the 100- and 200-yard breaststroke events with a time of 1:02.58 in the 100 and 2:18.91 in the 200.

Freshman Ben Kennedy (Belmont/Belmont, Mass.) won the 100-yard backstroke in 55.81 seconds; senior Antoine Connors (Spartanburg/Spartanburg, S.C.) won the 50 free in 21.92 seconds and junior Jake Robbins (Fairport/Fairport) won the 100 free in 48.83 seconds.

Ithaca won the 200-yard medley relay with a time of 1:38.56 with the quartet of sophomore Connor White (Fox Lane/Pound Ridge), junior Jake Lichter (Weston/Weston, Mass.), Rapp and Connors. The group of Connors, Robbins, freshman Peter Knight (Franklin D. Roosevelt/Hyde Park) and sophomore Zack Kundel (Bethlehem/Glenmont) won the 200-yard freestyle relay in 1:28.75.

The Bombers are home Saturday at 1 p.m. against Cortland.

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