HAMPDEN-SYDNEY, VA. – The Barton men's swimming team started off its inaugural season in a successful fashion on Saturday afternoon, defeating host Hampden-Sydney College 144-108 and falling to Frostburg State University 135-121in the program's first ever competition.
The Bulldogs started the meet off with a win in the 400-meter medley relay as the team of Andre Richardson, Alex Krasutsky, Luis Reyes and Colin Strickland turned a time of 4:18.27 to win by more than six seconds of Frostburg State. Reyes, Robert Zamorano, Strickland and James Day formed a team in the 400-meter freestyle relay and took first place with a time of 3:48.18, defeating a team from HSC by more than a 23-second margin.
Zamorano claimed the individual win in the 800-meter freestyle, defeating his next closest competitor by more than 40 seconds, while also winning the 400-meter freestyle race with a time of 4:34.31. Richardson had the closest finish of the day, winning the 50-meter butterfly race by .03 seconds over second-place Hudson Elmore of the Tigers.
A pair of Barton swimmers finished first and second in two separate races with Day reaching the wall first on both occasions. The Essex, England native first won the 200-meter freestyle by less than a second over Zamorano and followed that with a win in the 100-meter freestyle event over Strickland with a time of 55.89
Strickland was able to earn a first place finish in the 50-meter freestyle following a swim of 25.06, defeating Hampden-Sydney's Brandon Koch by almost two seconds, while Krasutsky took home two second place finishes in the 50- and 100-meter breaststroke.
Barton will be back in the pool on Wednesday, Oct. 19 when the team hosts Ferrum College in the Bulldog's first home meet in Rocky Mount, N.C. at 6 p.m.
First-year swimming Annika Jasek-Rysdahl claimed two individual race wins in the first competition for the Barton women’s swimming program on Saturday afternoon despite a 204-32 loss to Frostburg State University.
Jasek-Rysdahl, a freshman from Turlock, Calif., won her first collegiate race by over one minute in the 800-meter freestyle with a time of 10:01.08. Her second win of the day came in the 400-meter freestyle, reaching the wall with a time of 4:53.43 to beat out Valerie Yoder of FSU.
Shelby Cash swam to a runner-up finish in the 100-meter butterfly with a time of 1:30.91, while Tia Broady earned points for Barton with a fourth place finish in the 200-meter freestyle race.
Barton will be back in the pool on Wednesday, Oct. 19 when the team hosts Ferrum College and UNC Pembroke in the Bulldog’s first home meet in Rocky Mount, N.C. at 6 p.m.
