WORCESTER, Mass. – The opening day of the Gompei Invitational swim meet at WPI saw Bentley University swimmers post a pair of second-place finishes and break two school records.
Senior Dan Sausto (Slingerlands, N.Y./The Doane Stuart School) captured the only individual second-place finish as he swam the 1650 yard freestyle in 16:08.33, finishing 1.7 seconds back of Bryant University's Robert Davis.
The other second was achieved in the women's 800 free relay with sophomore Lucy Slowe (Millis/Millis HS) and senior Paige MacNeil (Branford, Conn./Branford HS) teaming with freshmen Kathryn Galvin (Suffern, N.Y./Suffern HS) and Dariana Gonzales (Stamford, Conn./Westhill HS) for a 7:44.45. They trailed only Division I Bryant, which reached the wall in 7:36.44.
The school record performances came from Galvin in the 50 free and the men's 200 medley relay team of senior Jarod Yoshihara (Irvine, Calif./University HS) and sophomores Oscar Chang (Dix Hills, N.Y./Half Hollow Hills West HS), Zach Papsco (Northport, N.Y./Northport HS) and Mark Zoda (Nashua, N.H./Bishop Guertin HS). They finished sixth in 1:34.22 to break the mark set in February by 0.12 seconds. Papsco and Zoda were also part of that record.
Galvin swam the 50 free in 24:33, good for sixth place and 0.05 seconds faster than the time achieved by Kaitlyn McGahie in February 2017.
Bentley's only third on the day came in the mixed 200 medley relay as MacNeil, Papsco, junior Paul Homorodean (Milford, Conn./Joseph A. Foran HS) posted a 1:40.94.
Fourth-place finishes were achieved by Zoda in the 50 free (21.22), senior Ariana Revelas (Snyder, N.Y./Nardin Academy) in the 200 breaststroke (2:27.68) and Homorodean in the 100 butterfly (2:27.68).
The men's 200 breast saw a pair of Bentley freshman take fifth and sixth places. Tanner Eisenhut (Jamesville, N.Y./Fayetteville-Manlius HS) finished in 2:07.89 and Anthony Vizental (Concord, Calif./Clayton Valley HS) followed in 2:08.28.
Freshman Mary Huminski (Madison, Conn./Daniel Hand HS) was fifth in the three-meter diving (371.30).
Bentley finished the day with a combined men's and women's score of 712 points, good for third place behind Rowan University (914) and Bryant (885).
The meet runs through Sunday with double sessions both days.
