Meet Results

NEW PALTZ, N.Y. – Despite winning both relays, the State University of New York at New Paltz men's swimming team (3-4) was unable to match the firepower of Ramapo College, as the Hawks lost by a 136-126 final to the Roadrunners (2-1) on Saturday afternoon at Elting Pool.

Last year, New Paltz defeated Ramapo by a slim margin on the road. This season, a similar script was played out with the home team succumbing by a small edge, though the meet was won before the final relay. The Hawks went 1-2 in the 200 freestyle relay, which was the final event of the afternoon.

Senior Pete Nastasi (Monroe, N.Y./Monroe-Woodbury) was a double-event winner for the Hawks, taking the 100 breaststroke (1:02.60) and the 200 breaststroke (2:15.36), and he also was a runner-up finisher in the 200 individual medley (2:05.67).

Senior Jeremy Borrelli (Vestal, N.Y./Vestal) was the only other Hawk male to touch first in an individual event, as he clocked an event-winning 50.00 in the 100 freestyle.

The 400 medley relay team of senior Jesse Sweeney (East Lyme, Conn./East Lyme), Nastasi, senior Ray Amato (Scotia, N.Y./Burnt Hills) and senior Corey Lomas (Wilbraham, Mass./Minnechaug Regional) kicked off the meet with a Hawk victory, as the quartet charted a winning standard of 3:39.34. In the 200 freestyle relay, Borrelli, Amato, Sweeney and Lomas combined sprint talents, leading a 1-2 New Paltz finish with a time of 1:28.98.

Other second-place performances came from freshman Lucas Rusinak (Staten Island, N.Y./St. Peter's Boys) in the 1,000 freestyle (10:29.18) and the 500 freestyle (4:58.62), senior Marc Battisti (East Meadow, N.Y./East Meadow) in the 200 freestyle (1:49.54), Sweeney in the 100 backstroke (54.77) and 200 backstroke (2:00.36), freshman Michael Lacroce (Palmyra, Pa./Palmyra) in the 200 butterfly (2:08.93), Borrelli in the 50 freestyle (22.63) and Amato in the 100 butterfly (56.08).

New Paltz is idle through the Intercession break and returns to action during its training trip in Bradenton, Fla., squaring off with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday, Jan. 4, at 6 p.m.