By: Brendon Reese
WOOSTER, Ohio – Mount Union's men's swimming and diving team finished in first place after the first day of the Wooster Invitational on Thursday evening.
The Purple Raiders finished with a team score of 512 which is 116 points ahead of second place Wooster.
Top Finishers
- 200-yard freestyle relay: team consisting of freshman Ethan Harvey (Macedonia / St. Ignatius), junior Angelo Lawrence (Mooresville, Ind. / Center Grove), senior Jacob Hathaway (Lexington) and senior Lucas Starling (Lexington) won the event with a time of 1:24.52
- 500-yard freestyle: junior Cameron Burnett (Canfield) finished in fourth place with a time of 4:48.94
- 50-yard freestyle: Harvey won the event with a time of 20.81 and Starling finished fourth with a time of 21.28
- 400-yard medley relay: team consisting of freshman Jackson Hodkey (Mentor), freshman Trey Nickoli (Lexington), freshman Isaac Tennant (Pittsburgh, Pa. / Moon) and Harvey finished third with a time of 3:28.97
Team Scores
- Mount Union 512, 2. Wooster 396, 3. Rose-Hulman 384, 4. Shawnee State 326, 5. Frostburg State 286, 6. Albion 193, 7. Westminster 84, 8. Kalamazoo 69, 9. Wittenberg 66, 10. Heidelberg 55
The Raiders return to action tomorrow for the second day of the Wooster Invitational at Wooster High School with prelims starting at 10 a.m. followed by diving at 2 p.m. and finals at 6 p.m.
