For Immediate Release · By Monica Vega · mvega@smcm.edu
St. Mary's City, Md. – The St. Mary's College of Maryland men's swim team opened the 2016-17 season against the Marymount (Va.) University Saints on Saturday afternoon. St. Mary's claimed six gold medals but the Saints would hold on for the 112-93 season-opening win.
Marymount (Va.) (1-0, 1-0 CAC) – 112
St. Mary's (Md.) (0-1, 0-1 CAC) – 93
Seahawks Highlights
- St. Mary's had six different swimmers garnered two gold medals each.
- St. Mary's would start the day with a first-place finish in the 400 yard medley behind the efforts of senior captain Andrew Braker (Olney, Md./Sherwood), juniors Kieran Broder (Olney, Md./Georgetown Prep) and Lucas Delgado (Bowie, Md./Gonzaga [D.C.]), and sophomore Colin Cassady (Phoenix, Md./Calvert Hall). The Seahawks posted a winning time of 3:39.80.
- Senior captain Andrew Braun (Bowie, Md./DeMatha) captured the 1,000 freestyle in 10:57.06.
- Delgado would take home another gold in the 200 butterfly with a time of 2:07.37. Following just over two seconds later was first-year Ryan Akhavan (Annapolis, Md./Broadneck) with a time of 2:09.79 for second.
- First-year Peter Orban (Montgomery Village, Md./Watkins Mill)would take his first gold as a Seahawk in the 200 backstroke, clocking in at 2:04.33.
- Broder would finish the 200 breaststroke in 2:15.83 to win the event.
- The Seahawks would place first in the final relay of the day, the 400 freestyle relay, coming in with a time of 3:22.72. Braker, Braun, Orban, and Cassady would compete in the event.
- Cassady picked up a silver medal in the 200 freestyle in 1:52.80.
- Braker claimed a second-place finish in the 200 individual medley in 2:06.37.
- Delgado had the team's final second-place finish with a time of 5:19.11 in the 500 freetyle.
Up next for the Seahawks
- 11/4 at Randolph-Macon College – 5:00 p.m. (non-conference dual meet)
- 11/5 vs. York College of Pennsylvania – 1:00 p.m. (CAC dual meet)
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