WENHAM, Mass. – Sophomore
Brendan Lee (Dover, N.H.) and junior
Lyden Fogg (South Portland, Maine) each won a pair of individual events, while Lee destroyed a school record to help the Plymouth State University men's swim team cruise past Gordon College, 143-66, and Albertus Magnus College, 175-5, in a double dual meet at the Bennett Center on Saturday.
Lee smashed the program mark in the 400-yard IM with a winning time of 4:57.79 to crush his own record by more than 30 seconds. He added a win in the 50-yard breaststroke, while Fogg topped the field in both the 50-yard backstroke and 100-yard backstroke.
Plymouth State had seven individual event winners, while also capturing both the 200-yard medley relay and 20-yard freestyle relay in the dominating performance.
The Basics:
- Plymouth State 143, Gordon 66
- Plymouth State 175, Albertus Magnus 5
- Gordon 105, Albertus Magnus 4
- Plymouth State (4-0)
- Gordon (1-2)
- Albertus Magnus (0-4)
Individual Event Top Finishers:
Teaming Up:
How it Happened:
- Fogg and Lee teamed up with freshman Aiden MacDonald (Hopkinton, Mass.) and junior Jimmy Blanco (Stark, N.H.) for a win in the 200-yard medley relay to kick things off for the Panthers.
- Freshman Aidan Moyer (Leesport, Pa.) was first to touch the wall in the 200-yard freestyle with a winning time of 2:01.77.
- Fogg picked up his first individual win the 50-yard backstroke in a time of 27.79.
- Lee carried the momentum to a victory in the 50-yard breaststroke in 31.55.
- Sophomore Brady Lyons (Methuen, Mass.) followed suit to take the 100-yard butterfly in 1:03.86.
- MacDonald and freshman Marco D'Addona (Torrington, Conn.) took second and third in the 50-yard freestyle, before Blanco posted a runner-up in the 100-yard freestyle in 54.10.
- Fogg outswam the competition by ten seconds in the 100-yard backstroke.
- Moyer and freshmen Todd Rust (Bath, N.H.) and Lee Hill (Nashua, N.H.) went second through fourth in the 100-yard breaststroke.
- Blanco claimed second in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 6:07.20 before MacDonald and Lyons went one-two in the 50-yard butterfly.
- Lee followed with his dominant performance in the 400-yard IM, where he smashed his own school record in 4:57.79.
- Fogg, D'Addona, Moyer and MacDonald closed out the outstanding performance with a win in the 200-yard freestyle relay in 1:39.93.
Up Next:
- Plymouth State visits Western New England next Saturday (Nov. 18) for a double dual meet with the Golden Bears and Eastern Connecticut State. Opening events start at 4:00 p.m.
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