Diplomats win 10 events on way to 173-89 win
Men’s Swimming 10/30/2021 11:22:00 PM
Junior Nick Cox (Purcellville, Va./Ponte Vedra) swept the backstroke races to account for half of Gettysburg’s victories in a 173-89 loss to No. 21 Franklin & Marshall College in a Centennial Conference dual meet in the Bullets Pool on Saturday.
| Team | Score |
| #21 Franklin & Marshall (4-0, 4-0 CC) | 173 |
| Gettysburg (2-1, 2-1 CC) | 89 |
| Event | Winner | GC Top Finsher |
| 400 Medley Relay | Franklin & Marshall (3:23.91) | 2. Gettysburg (3:28.25) |
| 1000 Free | Willem Stoll, F&M (9:44.26) | 2. Duncan Proxmire (9:53.54) |
| 200 Free | Chris Shiavone, F&M (1:44.54) | 2. Hunter Sundlun (1:47.51) |
| 100 Back | Nick Cox, GC (51.23) | |
| 100 Breast | Tom Graminski, F&M (58.55) | 3. Declan Sheeran (1:00.39) |
| 200 Fly | Oliver Pickering, GC (1:57.85) | |
| 50 Free | Brendan Cline, F&M (20.98) | 4. Cort Hobelmann (21.48) |
| 100 Free | Chris Schiavone, F&M (47.08) | 4. Hunter Sundlun (48.47) |
| 200 Back | Nick Cox, GC (1:56.26) | |
| 200 Breast | Tom Graminski, F&M (2:10.70) | 3. Charlie Cross (2:11.99) |
| 500 Free | Duncan Proxmire, GC (4:44.59) | |
| 100 Fly | Brendan Cline, F&M (50.74) | 2. Oliver Pickering (51.80) |
| 200 IM | Tom Graminski, F&M (1:57.01) | 2. Oliver Pickering (1:57.51) |
| 200 Free Relay | Franklin & Marshall (1:21.85) | 3. Gettysburg (1:28.27) |
Meet Highlights
- Franklin & Marshall opened the meet with a strong showing in the 400 medley relay, beating Gettysburg by over four seconds. All four swimmers in the relay – Wahl, Graminski, and Schiavone – are multiple-time All-Americans and accounted for seven of the team’s eight individual wins on Saturday.
- Cox used his strong starts and smooth turns to edge out Wahl for a pair of backstroke wins on Saturday. The Gettysburg junior led from start-to-finish in the 100, finishing in a time of 51.23. Cox was even more dialed in for the 200, slowly pulling away from the F&M senior and winning by over two seconds at 1:55.26.
- Senior Oliver Pickering (Millburn, N.J./Millburn) went head-to-head with three different Diplomat All-Americans. In the 200 fly, the Gettysburg senior out-dueled F&M school record holder Willem Stoll with a time of 1:57.85. Pickering produced a pair of runner-up finishes in back-to-back races near the end of the meet. He settled for second behind Cline in the 100 fly with a time of 51.80. After a 10-minute break in the meet, the Gettysburg swimmer battled with Graminski and Cam Mehta in the 200 IM, with Graminski holding off Pickering for the victory by half a second. Pickering finished with a time of 1:57.51.
- Senior Duncan Proxmire (McLean, Va./Langley) claimed victory over Stoll in the 500 free after a runner-up finish to the Diplomat swimmer in the 1,000 earlier in the meet. In the first dual, Stoll maintained a consistent pace to steadily pull away from the Gettysburg senior for a nine-second win. Proxmire finished second in 9:53.64. In the 500, Proxmire pushed the pace on the back 25s of his 50 splits and pulled away from Stoll over the final 100 yards before finishing in 4:44.59. Sophomore Luke McKenna (Collegeville, Pa./Spring-Ford) finished third (9:59.41)) and fourth (4:56.69) in the 1,000 and 500, respectively.
- Sophomore Hunter Sundlun (Richmond, Va./Saint Christopher’s School) took an early lead over Schiavone in the 200 free, but the F&M swimmer turned on the jets over the final 100 yards and Sundlun settled for second at 1:47.51. Sundlun was also Gettysburg’s top finisher in the 100 free with a fourth-place effort of 48.47.
The Series
Gettysburg holds a 64-37-1 lead in the all-time series with F&M. The Diplomats have won the last three dual meetings.
Next Up
Gettysburg travels to Pittsburgh to face No. 9 Carnegie Mellon on Saturday, Nov. 6, at 11 a.m.