CORTLAND, N.Y. – The Cortland men's swimming and diving team opened the home portion of its schedule with a 161-133 dual-meet loss to SUNY Geneseo. The Red Dragons fall to 0-2 in dual action and Geneseo improves to 2-1.

Cortland earned three individual victories. Junior Matt Blaszak (West Seneca/West Seneca East) won the 200-yard freestyle in 1:49.14 and junior Justin Nelson (Jamestown/Frewsburg) captured the 200-yard backstroke in 2:00.01. Senior Travis Burke (Massapequa) won three-meter diving with 295.75 points and finished second on the one-meter board with 225.90 points.

Sophomore Matt Distler (Glens Falls) finished second in both the 1,000-yard freestyle (10:27.30) and the 500-yard freestyle (5:03.47), while sophomore Luke Strothenke (New Paltz) was the runner-up in the 200-yard backstroke (57.61) and 100-yard freestyle (49.97).

Other Cortland individual runners-up included freshman Alex Spatzer (Kenmore/Kenmore West) in the 200-yard freestyle (1:51.21), junior Dan MacQuarrie (Vestal) in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:04.68), senior Dylan Scheemaker (Fairport) in the 200-yard butterfly (2:10.53), junior Ben Strickland (Stanfordville/HomeSchool) in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:21.15) and senior Judd Simon (Oneida) in the 200-yard individual medley (2:21.15).

Cortland also placed second in both relays. Strickland, senior Danny Salvatore (Clarence), Scheemaker and Strothenke were clocked in 3:41.77 in the 400-yard medley relay. Junior Dan Maximowicz (Binghamton/Chenango Forks), Distler, junior Greg Griffin (Dallas, TX/J.F. Kimball) and Strothenke finished the 200-yard freestyle relay in 1:28.62, only six hundredths of a second off the winning time.

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