Complete Results (PDF)
ITHACA, N.Y. – The Ithaca College men's swimming and diving returned to the Athletics & Events Center Aquatics Pavilion for the second day of the 2017 Upper New York State Collegiate Swimming Association (UNYSCSA) Championships. The Bombers posted another strong effort in the final evening session, scoring 312 points on the second day to hit the midway point of the meet with 539 points. Ithaca currently sits in third place, trailing first-place Stevens Institute of Technology (799 points) and second-place Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (569 points) in the overall team standings.
The Ithaca men placed one individual UNYSCSA Champion on the second day of action, as senior freestyler
Adam Zelehowsky took home the title in the 200-yard freestyle event. The Bombers also put the bookend on the evening session with a pair of runner-up finishes in the relay races in the 200-yard freestyle relay and the 400-yard medley relay.
Opening the 6:00 p.m. finals session was the 200-yard freestyle relay, in which IC collected 56 team points with a second-place effort. Sophomore
Aaron Levin, senior
Connor Schroyer, sophomore
Kellen Scanlan and Zelehowsky gave reigning champion Stevens all it could handle in a razor tight race. The Ducks were able to hold off a furious charge by Zelehowsky in the anchor leg of the race, narrowly out-touching the Bombers 1:23.55-to-1:24.16.
Ithaca added 10 points when the B-relay team of freshman
Nate Bartalo, senior
Gregory Markert, junior
Aidan Hartswick and freshman
Nick Bonnabeau went fourth in the C-Final relay with time of 1:28.65.
The Bombers had one entrant make the A-Final in the 400-yard individual medley, as freshman
Andrew Mikhailichenko continued his impressive debut campaign with an eighth-place showing. He posted a final time of 4:14.20 to collect 22 team points.
Ithaca had five other IM racers advance to the evening session in the consolation races. Junior
Marshall Hendlin paced the group with a second-place finish in the B-Final with a time of 4:14.83. Freshman
Augie Carlozzi touched the wall in fifth in the B-Final in a time of 4:18.38, while sophomore
Bradley Keith went eighth with a time of 4:23.49. IC also had two in the C-Final, as freshman
John Mosier went second in the race in a time of 4:22.94, while fellow rookie Pat Daly finished fifth in a time of 4:25.90. The group accounted for 53 points.
Bartalo re-entered the pool for the Bombers in the 100-yard butterfly event, scoring a sixth-place finish in the A-Final in a time of 51.45. Ithaca added three competitors in the C-Final, as sophomore
Jake Hewitt topped the race in 52.45 to score nine points. Schroyer finished fifth in the C-Final in a time of 54.25 and Hartswick marked a seventh-place showing in 54.79.
The highlight of the evening for the IC men was the 200-yard freestyle race, in which Zelehowsky posted two of the top times in UNYSCSA history. He earned the top-seed heading into the night session when he set a new championship meet record with a time of 1:40.10 during the morning prelims. He followed that up with a B-Cut qualifying time of 1:40.18 to out-touch Dio Tzortzis of Bard College in the final. Levin added a fifth-place finish in the A-Final in a time of 1:44.42, as the duo accounted for 57 team points.
Carlozzi added seven points to IC's team total with an 18
th-place finish during the afternoon session of the men's one-meter springboard event.
Rounding out the evening was the 400-yard medley relay, in which the Bombers again scored a pair of point-earning groups. The foursome of Keith, Hartswick, Hewitt and Scanlan hit the wall first in the C-Final race, posting a time of 3:34.54 to earn 12 team points. IC's A-grouping of Markert, Mikhailichenko, Zelehowsky and Levin touched the wall in 3:26.56 to earn UNYSCSA Runner-Up honors.
Ithaca returns to the pool for the third day of the 2017 UNYSCSA Championships at 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. On the lineup for tomorrow's session are races in the: 200 butterfly, 100 backstroke, 100 breaststroke, and 800 freestyle relay. The afternoon diving session will be the women's one-meter springboard.
