Fredonia, NY – The first day of Fredonia's Blue Devil invite finished up Friday night following the finals session for the opening day of competition. The Golden Eagles are currently sitting in 1
st place on the women's side (587 points) and the men hold onto 3
rd place after day one (437.5 points).
In the first finals event of the event session, Brockport placed third in the men's 200-yard freestyle relay.
Joe Keeney,
Zander Benz,
Garrett Nanna, and
Erik Parkes swam a time of 1:28.28.
The Golden Eagles placed first in the women's side of the relay with a time of 1:38.33. The winning group consisted of Anna Lowe, Maddie Erhardt, Varshana Ramgulam, and Nicole Orcutt.
Alex Nicita scored well with a fourth-place finish in the men's 500 freestyle finals, clocking in at 4:57.73.
Jace Fredericksen won the B-finals race with his time of 5:02.74.
The women's 500 freestyle relay saw Nicole Orcutt take first place thanks to a time of 5:13.04. Hannah Ramos took fourth in the race with a 5:19.87. In the B-finals, Sarah Colwell won the heat with a time of 5:28.26.
Anthony O'Leary scored with a time of 2:01.09 for fourth place in the men's 200-yard IM. Varshana Ramgulam took second on the women's side of the event with a time of 2:12.23.
In the women's 50 freestyle final, Anna Lowe (24.40) and Maddie Erhardt (25.13) placed second and third respectively.
Jace Fredericksen,
Anthony O'Leary,
Erik Parkes, and
Carter Lundin took fourth in the men's 400-yard medley relay. The group teamed up for a finishing time of 3:38.23.
Brockport took second and third place in the women's 400-yard medley relay event. Hannah Ramos, Addy Martino, Maddie Erhardt, and Anna Lowe swam a 4:03.85. Lauryn ball, Lindsey Spitz, Varshana Ramgulam, and Skylar King finished in 4:07.50.
The women are in good standing, currently 90 points ahead of the second place team from PSU-Behrend after day one. The men for Brockport trail St. Vincent by 22.5 for second place and are behind PSU-Behrend by 142.5 points for first place.
The Golden Eagles are back in the pool at the Blue Devil Invite tomorrow morning for a 10am start to the first session of day two. The finals on Saturday are set to begin at 5pm.
