UMBC

Freshman Brad Reitz won the 100 and 200 yard butterfly events and was part of the winning 200 medley and 400 free relays against Towson.

BALTIMORE—The UMBC men’s and women’s swimming and diving team split Saturday’s meet with Towson, as the men were victorious by a score of 160-107, while the women fell, 171-122.

On the men’s side, the Retrievers (3-1) won 14 of 16 events, recording 1-2-3 sweeps in 10 events, while the Tigers (1-5) came out on top in just two events, the 100 and 200 breaststrokes.

Junior Justin Bronson (Oshawa, Ontario, Canada/Msgr. Paul Dwyer) was a triple winner for the Retrievers, as he led sweeps of 100, 200, and 500 freestyles with times of 47.30, 1:41.56, and 4:42.73, respectively.  Bronson also teamed with sophomore Matt Mattingly (Cherry Hill, N.J./Cherry Hill West), and freshmen Brad Reitz (Ellicott City, Md./Howard) and Eric Jones (Gambrills, Md./Arundel) to take the 400 free relay with a time of 3:10.99.

Reitz added two victories of his own, turning in times of 51.89 and 1:57.06 to lead Retriever sweeps of the 100 and 200 butterfly events, while Mattingly was fastest in the 50 free, as he led a Retriever sweep with a time of 21.92.

Reitz and Mattingly also combined with sophomore Rasmus Kutt (Tallinn, Estonia/Gustav Adolf Gymnasium) and senior Scott Auchter (Wernersville, Pa./Wilson) to win the 200 medley relay in a time of 1:36.45.  Kutt added an individual victory as he led the Retrievers to a 1-2-3 sweep in the 200 backstroke with a time of 1:55.42.

Freshmen Mat Carson (Toronto, Ontario, Canada/Silverthorn Collegiate Institute), Mike Morabito (Owego, N.Y./Owego Free Academy), and Chris Cheng (Raleigh, N.C./Enloe) led the final event sweeps for the Retrievers as Carson turned in a winning time of 9:45.97 in the 1000 free, Morabito recorded a score of 216.15 in 1-meter diving, and Cheng scored 224.33 on the 3-meter board.

The only other individual winners for the Retrievers were junior Milos Djukic (Novi Sad, Serbia/Svetozar Markovic), who won the 100 back in a time of 52.60 and senior Adam Eiben (Pittsburgh, Pa./Baldwin), who was victorious in the 200 individual medley in 1:59.57.

On the women’s side, the Retrievers (2-3) totaled three double-winners on the day, as junior Tina Cantwell (Sinking Spring, Pa./The Hill School), sophomore Tereza Kaplanova (Prague, Czech Republic/J.G. Jankovskeho), and freshman Crystal Gall (Balgonie, Saskatchewan, Canada/Dr. Martin LeBoldus) combined for six Retriever victories on the day.  The Tigers (6-1) won the remaining 10 events, including both relays.

Cantwell turned in times of 1:05.94 and 2:21.00 to take the 100 and 200 breaststrokes, Kaplanova recorded times of 1:01.00 and 2:09.19 to win the 100 and 200 backstrokes, and Gall was victorious in the diving events with scores of 246.07 and 254.55 on the 1- and 3-meter boards, respectively.

The Retrievers will travel to Fairfax, Va. next weekend, where they will compete in the George Mason Patriot Invitational from Nov. 16-18 and will return to dual meet competition in the new year, when they host Maryland on Jan. 10 at 5:00 p.m.  The Retrievers enter the Patriot Invitational this year as the defending champions on both the men’s and women’s sides.