SWIM RESULTS | DIVE RESULTS | TEAM SCORES

ITHACA, N.Y. – The Ithaca College men's swimming and diving team rounded out the second day of the 2019 Liberty League Championship in second place with a score of 677 points. RPI holds the lead with 835 points.
 
Junior Nate Bartalo headlined the day for IC, taking first in the 100 fly with a time of 49.71 to defend his crown and set a new meet record. He initially broke his own record during the morning preliminaries (49.80), which he set last year after breaking a 22-year-old meet record.
 
Sophomore Justin Moczynski also had a solid day on the 1-meter board for the Bombers. After finishing four in the preliminaries earlier in the day, he came in second place with a score of 485.95. The competition was neck-and-neck, but ultimately Union's Davis Harrington won the field with 494.05 points.
 
The Bombers started off the day with a second-place finish in the 200 medley relay as the team of Stanley Zaneski, Kellen Scanlan, Timothy Hector and Nate Bartalo swam to a time of 1:23.25. RPI's relay team narrowly edged Ithaca with a time of 1:23.04.
 
In the 400 IM, Andrew Mikhailichenko finished in fourth place with a time of 4:10.16. Bard's Dio Tzortzis won the race and smashed the previous meet record (4:10.58) with a new time of 3:59.57.
 
Also in the 400 IM, Augie Carlozzi finished in eighth place with a time of ...... while first-year Michael Sheehan finished first in the B final, taking ninth place overall with a time of 4:16.97.
 
First-year Matt Crysler finished second in the 100 fly B final with a time of 52.98 to take 10^th overall.
 
Zaneski picked up a third-place finish in the 200 freestyle, swimming to a time of 1:42.99 while Dan Meyers finished in fourth with a time of 1:43.95.
 
Ithaca closed out the day much like it began, with a close second-place finish in the 400 medley relay. The team of Spencer Brownewell, Mikhailichenko, Bartalo and Zaneski raced to a time of 3:22.92 for second. IC was edged by RPI, which finished in 3:22.66.
 
The Bombers are back in action tomorrow for day three of the Liberty League Championship. Swimming preliminaries start at 10 a.m., followed by diving preliminaries at 1 p.m. and finals at 6 p.m.
 
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Team Scores:

1. RPI | 835 points
2. Ithaca | 677 points
3. RIT | 642 points
4. Union | 477 points
5. Vassar | 385 points
6. Clarkson | 350 points
7. Skidmore | 197 points
8. St. Lawrence | 143 points
9. Bard | 83 points