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GW Men's Swimming and Diving Dominates Howard
10/29/2016 12:00:00 AM | Men's Swimming and Diving
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WASHINGTON - The George Washington men's swimming and diving squad won all but one event on Saturday to grab the team's first victory of the season over Howard at the Charles E. Smith Center Pool.
Twelve different Colonials played a role in GW's 10 race victories to help GW down Howard, 119-70.
The Buff and Blue began the meet with a first-place finish in the 200-yard medley relay as senior Ryan O'Malley, freshmen Karan Mahadev and Emils Pone, and sophomore Alexander Auster touched the wall in 1:38.71.
Pone later teamed up with classmates Alex Cronin and Kyle Hrabovsky and sophomore Josh Monacelli to win the 400 freestyle relay in 3:17.27. Pone added an individual triumph in the 100 butterfly with a time of 52.65 to finish just ahead of Monacelli in second (52.97).
Rookie Shawn Lemarie tallied two individual wins, first leading a GW sweep in the 200 free in 1:44.73. Senior Liam Huffman placed second (1:46.98) and junior Connor Hart took third (1:49.19). Lemarie later led another sweep, this time in the 1,000 free, posting a time of 9:53.42, again ahead of Huffman in second (10:02.23) and Hart in third (10.26.10).
Cronin went on to claim a race victory of his own in yet another GW sweep, touching the wall first in the 200 IM (1:59.63) as Monacelli took second (2:00.27) and senior Bogdan Balteanu grabbed third (2:00.40). Cronin later joined forces with Balteanu and juniors Aneil Srivastava and Jarvus Pennington to win the 200 free relay (1:27.96).
Pennington was the first to finish in the 50 free (22.42) ahead of junior Adam Drury in second (22.48) and senior Ben Fitch in third (22.65).
Drury added his own victory in the 100 free (49.47) ahead of Pennington in second (49.66) and Srivastava in third (49.71).
Freshman Max Forstenhaeusler rounded out GW's winning performances in the 100 breaststroke, touching the wall in 59.73. Mahadev took second in the event (1:01.43) and Auster placed third (1:01.87).
Sophomore Nicolas Reeves placed second in the 100 backstroke to wrap GW's top-three individual performances.
The Colonials will take a three-week hiatus from competition before traveling to Cleveland State for the three-day Magnus Cup Invitational from Nov. 18-20.
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