By: Brendon Reese
WOOSTER, Ohio – Mount Union's men's swimming and diving team finished in fourth place after the final day of the Wooster Invitational on Saturday evening.
The Purple Raiders finished with a team score of 1261 which was 457 points ahead of fifth place Edinboro. Rose-Hulman won the event with a team score of 1802.5 points.
Team Scores
- Rose-Hulman 1802.5, 2. Ashland 1567, 3. Wooster 1550.5, 4. Mount Union 1261, 5. Edinboro 804, 6. Kalamazoo 588, 7. Westminster 532, 8. Wittenberg 220
Top Finishers
- 1650-yard freestyle: senior Dylan Cossin (Stow / Stow-Munroe Falls) won the event with a time of 16:40.41 and senior Conner Arneson (Mount Horeb, Wis.) finished third with a time of 16:44.26
- 200-yard backstroke: junior Jacob Hathaway (Lexington) won the event with a time of 1:51.85
- 100-yard freestyle: sophomore Bruce Beyer (Plymouth, Mich. / Plymouth-Salem) finished third with a time of 47.45
The Raiders are back home next when they host Ohio Northern on Saturday, January 11 at 1 p.m. in Hammond Natatorium.
