NORTH MANCHESTER, Indiana - The Wilmington College men's swimming team won its second consecutive dual meet with a 119-84 triumph over Manchester University on the road on Saturday.
A trio of Quakers - Caden Traggiai, Sondre Haugen and Cameron Bolen - won three individual events against the Spartans. Traggiai won both the 500-yard freestyle (5:15.41) and 1,000-yard freestyle (10:45.52) while Haugen touched the wall in 56.02 seconds in the 100-yard butterfly and turned in a time of 1:48.03 in the 200-yard freestyle. Bolen claimed victory in the 50-yard freestyle (22.23 seconds) and the 100-yard breaststroke (1:02.20) events.
Alongside joining Haugen with a runner-up time of 1:51.77 in the 200-yard freestyle, Austin Reed won the 100-yard freestyle by touching the wall in 50.59 seconds. Though he didn't win an individual events, John Good had two second-place swims of 58.93 seconds in the 100-yard backstroke and 2:10.95 in the 200-yard IM.
Wilmington nearly started the day with relay victories. The 200-yard medley relay squad of Logan Lippert, Bolen, Michael Phillippe and Dane Klosterman swum a time of 1:44.17 and was out-touched by just 0.17 seconds ot the Spartan team. The Quakers ended the meet with a victory, however, as Haugen, Traggiai, Good and Reed's time of 3:24.50 in the 400-yard freestyle relay won the event.
"Both teams took a step forward today as they are starting to trust their training and are finishing races better than our first several meets," Head Coach Trip Breen said. "I am also pleased that they swam well after a fairly long bus ride."
Wilmington has one more competition for the 2022 calendar year - the Corbiere-Merion Invitational hosted by Ohio Wesleyan University on Nov. 19-20.
