BRONX, NY - Swimming their fourth meet over a 10-day span, the Iona College men's and women's swimming and diving fell on the road to Fordham University at their Col. Francis Messmore Aquatic Center on Wednesday night.
The Iona men's team dropped to 7-4 on the season with a hard fought 143-119 final. The Iona women's program moves to 8-5 with a 175-114 defeat. Over the course of the last 10 days, the Maroon & Gold men's team defeated Adelphi and Pace while losing Saturday to Fairfield and Wednesday to Fordham.
"Fordham has a lot of versatility on their roster and we challenged them in spots, but couldn't win enough races to overcome that," commented 39
th-year head coach
Nick Cavataro. "We competed well in every race, but looked a bit fatigued in the back end. We will be better on Sunday at Manhattan."
The Iona men tallied six individual wins on the night, including victories from
Matt Anderson in the 1,000-yard Freestyle with a season best of 9:42.06.
Daniel Hadary claimed the 500-Free at 4:43.64,
Jackson Madonia touched first in the 400-Individual medley at 4 :10.49,
Spencer Moran won top spot in the 100-Back at 52.30,
Jalen Ramjohn grabbed the 100-Butterfly at 51.77 and
James Whaley won the 200-Butterfly at 1:55.90.
The Iona women had four wins, including
Luiza Da Silveira taking the 200-Back at 2:09.39,
Kate DiRaimo winning the 200-Breast at 2:29.77,
Veronica Sowinski taking first in the 100-Breast at 1:08.89 and
Taylor Spillman winning the 400-Individual Medley at 4:44.40.
Iona wraps up their regular season on Sunday vs. rival Manhattan in Riverdale at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School.
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