Bucknell University Athletics
Bison Men Take Second at Patriot League Swimming and Diving Championships
2/28/2004 7:00:00 AM | Men's Swimming and Diving
Feb. 28, 2004
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - The Bucknell men's swimming and diving team followed a fine pattern, but needed one more day to see it through. After ending the first day of competition in fourth place, Bucknell finished Friday in third, and finished the Patriot League Championships on Saturday in second place behind a Navy squad that claimed its first-ever league crown. Bucknell accomplished the same feat in 2003 when it hosted the league meet.
Bucknell's 530 points were the closest any team got to Navy's 810, a gap that eclipses the Patriot League record for margin of victory in the men's championship previously held by Army in 1997. The Black Knights are still the only team to accrue more than 1,000 points, finishing with 1,009 and holding off Lehigh by 252 that year.
Todd Bauer began the night for the men by taking the silver medal in the 1650 race, finishing 6.05 seconds behind Army's Kevin Burke. Bauer's 17 points were the largest portion of the 33 won by Bucknell in the event. In the following event, the 200 back, Jack Sheehan finished eighth and Ian Rawhauser improved upon his ninth-best overall time in Bucknell history, finishing tenth in 1:54.15.
Peter Garvin took fourth in the 100 free, an event that saw Navy take all three medals. Garvin's fourth-place 45.92-second finish claimed 15 points for Bucknell. The next event would make three alterations to the Bucknell record books, as William Schilling claimed another silver medal for Bucknell, finishing the 200 breast in 2:03.42, the second-best time in Bucknell history behind Stephen Schwanhausser's 2:01.68 last year. D.J. Guba finished eighth overall and eighth in the Bucknell record books, completing the course in 2:09.83. Clifton Cazes took ninth, first in the consolation race, and had the seventh-best time in Bucknell history, 2:09.11.
Mark Kretzer had Bucknell's third runner-up finish on the night and the third-best finish in Bucknell history in the 200 fly, completing the race in 1:52.34, just .42 seconds behind Army's Zach Disbrow. After Jake Thompson and Joseph Duncan took seventh and eighth, respectively, in the three-meter diving competition, the men closed out the championship meet with a second-place finish in the 400 free relay. Rawhauser, Garvin, Michael Willats, and Jake Thieman turned in the sixth-best time in Bucknell history, finishing in 3:04.58.
Behind Navy and Bucknell, Army finished third with 507 ? points, Lehigh fourth with 462, American fifth with 434, Colgate sixth with 292 ?, Lafayette seventh with 262, and Holy Cross eighth with 136.
Navy's Noah White was the Patriot League's Men's Swimmer of the Meet, while the Mids' Kevin Teague won the league's diving award. Bill Roberts of Navy and John O'Neill shared the league's men's coach award, while the Patriot League Diving Coach of the Year was Jonathan Johnson of Army.
