Meet ResultsNEW PALTZ, N.Y. – Senior
Will Koenig (Highland, Calif./Redlands East Valley) won two individual events and swam the anchor leg on the Hawks' event-winning 400 freestyle relay, as the State University of New York at New Paltz men's swimming team fell, 116-89, to NCAA Division II Pace University on Saturday afternoon at Elting Pool.
Koenig captured the 50 freestyle in 22.10 before winning the 100 freestyle in 49.20. Perhaps his best performance of the day, though, came during the 400 freestyle relay, as he closed a gap of more than a second, splitting a 48.42 to lift the Hawks to an event-winning time of 3:17.60. Junior
Austin Kowalsky (Bellmore, N.Y./W.C. Mepham), sophomore
Barrett Celecki (Barneveld, N.Y./Holland Patent) and senior
Ethan Cooke (Middletown, Conn./Middletown) also competed on New Paltz's winning 400 freestyle relay.
New Paltz drops to 1-2 with the loss and next competes at the MIT Invitational from Friday-Sunday, Dec. 4-6, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Pace rises to 5-0 with the win and next hosts Rowan University and St. Peter's University in a tri-meet on Saturday, Nov. 21.
Second-place finishes came from junior
Rob Cahn (Bellmore, N.Y./John F. Kennedy) in the 1,000 freestyle (10:30.49), Celecki in the 200 freestyle (1:50.85), Kowalsky in the 100 butterfly (56.61) and Cooke in the 100 freestyle (50.80).
Pace's freshman Nianzhong Liu lowered the Elting Pool record in the 100 breaststroke, as he covered the event in 1:00.39. Matthew Odom of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy set the former standard of 1:00.43 back in 2009.
