HAMILTON, N.Y. (11/16/08) –  Colgate captured nine of 13 first-place finishes and swept the top three places in two events as the Raiders downed visiting Dartmouth 143-98 in men’s swimming & diving action, Sunday afternoon at Lineberry Natatorium.

 

With the victory, Colgate improved to 1-3 overall and successfully avenged a 170-124 result at the hands of Big Green last year in Hanover, N.H.

 

Tucker Gniewek (Mountain Lakes, N.J.), Devon Healy (New Canaan, Conn.) and Costas Hadjipateras (New Canaan, Conn.) each were triple winners in the win over Dartmouth.

 

Healy won three individual events – the 500 free, 1650 free, and 400 IM (4:13.21).  The sophomore led both one-two-three sweeps in the distance free events.  Healy captured the second event of the meet, the 1650, with a winning time of 16:42.24, ahead of Nick Amato (East Norwich, N.Y.), and Vince Hostoffer (Highland Heights, Ohio), who finished second and third respectively.  Healy touched with a 4:49.59 to win the 500 free, while Pat White (Stamford, Conn.) and Hostoffer were second and third.

 

Gniewek and Teddy Perley (Harrison, N.Y.) went one-two in the 50 free.  The sophomore posted a winning time of 21.61 in the 50 and then returned to post a 48.11 in the 100.  Gniewek teamed with Perley, Henry Bottger (Weston, Conn.) and George Bennitt (West Chester, Pa.) to swim a 1:38.24 to claim the 200 medley relay.

 

Hadjipateras captured the 200 free (1:45.63) and 200 fly (1:56.73) and then teamed with Dan Lathrop (Westerly, R.I.), Peter Coulson (Pittsburgh, Pa.) and White to win the meet’s final event, the 400 free relay with a time of  3:16.46.

 

Colgate returns to action, December 4-6 as it travels to compete in the Kenyon Invitational in Gambier, Ohio.