DELAWARE, Ohio - The Wilmington College men's swimming team is in second place after day one of the Corbiere-Merion Invitational hosted by Ohio Wesleyan University on Saturday.
The Fightin' Quakers tallied 451 points and are over 75 clear of third-place Hiram College. Host Ohio Wesleyan leads the way with 644 points.
Two Wilmington relay teams tallied runner-up finishes. Cameron Bolen, Austin Reed, Michael Phillippe and Jacob Worley tapped the wall in 3:23.50 in the 400-yard freestyle relay while Phillippe teamed up with Dane Klosterman, Joshua Giel and Logan Lippert to turn in a time of 8:01.50 in the 800-yard freestyle relay.
Individually, Worley won the 200-yard backstroke with a swim of 2:00.32 and alos placed second in the 100-yard backstroke (56.67 seconds). Bolen also tallied two runner-up individual placements with swims of 48.77 seconds in the 100-yard freestyle and 1:02.13 in the 100-yard breaststroke. Aaron Polk nearly won the 100-yard butterfly (55.16 seconds), but was out-touched at the wall by a hundredth of a second. Other top-three finishers included Dane Klosterman's runner-up time of 2:12.16 in the 200-yard IM and the Austin Reed's third-place time of 1:55.19 in the 200-yard freestyle.
Day two of competition begins at 11 a.m. on Sunday.
