NEW YORK, N.Y. - The Cortland men's swimming and diving team opened the season with a third-place finish at the NYU Invitational Friday and Saturday. NYU finished with 1,196 points, followed by Stevens Institute with 1,012 and Cortland with 786.

Junior Dan Evans (Hamburg) won the 100-yard freestyle in 48.10 seconds and finished second in the 50-yard freestyle in 21.83 seconds. He also teamed with sophomore Matt Young (Richmondville/Schoharie), senior Drew Hilker (Ithaca) and junior Jeff Moessinger (Buffalo/Iroquois) to take top honors in the 200-yard medley relay (1:41.28).

Hilker turned in three top-four individual finishes. He placed third in both the 200-yard individual medley (2:06.23) and 100-yard butterfly (55.39) and was fourth in the 100-yard freestyle (49.42). Moessinger finished second in the 200-yard butterfly (2:08.66) and fourth in the 100-yard butterfly (56.09), while sophomore Mihali Tzetzis (Syracuse/Jamesville-DeWitt) was second in three-meter diving (187.13 points).

Other top-four individual efforts by the Red Dragons were freshman Travis Burke's (Massapequa) third place finish in three-meter diving (170.10 points), freshman Judd Simon's (Oneida) third place performance in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:05.93) and freshman Dan Drew's (Victor) fourth place finish in the 100-yard backstroke (58.31).

Day 1 Results

Day 2 Results