WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Towson University men's swimming and diving team fell in a tightly contested meet at Georgetown on Saturday to open the 2017-18 season. With a first-place finish in the last event of the meet, the 400-yard freestyle relay, the Hoyas edged out a 153-147 victory.

Georgetown posted a first and third-place finish in the race, giving them 13 points which help them overcome a four-point deficit going into the final event.

The junior duo of Aaron Magazine and Jack Saunderson each had two individual event victories while Saunderson added a victory in the 200-yard medley relay.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• Saunderson picked up two wins in the 100 and 200-yard butterfly. He finished the 200 fly a full six seconds ahead off second place and finished three seconds ahead of the next competitor in the 100.
• Magazine earned victories in the 500 and 1,000-yard freestyle, leading a 1-2-3 finish for Towson in both events. In the 500, he was followed by sophomore Hunter Wright and junior Evan Brophy. In the 1,000 free, he led sophomore Matt Kenney and junior Andrew Snyder.
• Brophy also had a third-place finish in the 200 free.
• Sophomore Ryan O'Leary and senior Nick Essing each had individual victories and were part of the 200-yard medley relay team with Saunderson and sophomore Owen Robinson that started the scoring with a first-place finish.
• O'Leary finished first in the 100-yard breaststroke in 58.80 seconds while Essing took first in the 50-yard freestyle, touching the wall in 21.37 seconds, just edging his brother, sophomore Matt Essing, who finished second in 21.89 seconds.
• Nick Essing also finished second in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 47.07 seconds.
• Junior Stefan Keller took home first place in the 200-yard breaststroke with a mark of 2:09.56, just ahead of O'Leary who finished second in 2:10.02.
• Senior Colin Roddy finished second in the 400-yard individual medley in a time of 4:06.64 which was just 0.38 seconds behind Georgetown's Jack Lynch. Keller came in third.
• Freshman Will Canny had a strong collegiate debut as he finished second in the 1 and 3-meter diving events.

UP NEXT

• The Tigers are back in the pool on Friday, October 20 when they travel to Annapolis for a tri-meet at Navy with Johns Hopkins.