WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - The Wilkes University men's swimming team earned their first Landmark Conference victory of the season against the Moravian University Greyhounds 181-54 Saturday afternoon at the Wyoming Catholic Youth Center.

Full Results

The Colonels improve their record to 3-0 on the season and 1-0 in the Landmark, while the Greyhounds drop to 0-1 overall.

Wilkes started the day by finishing first in the 200 yard medley relay with a team of Ashton Dainty (Scranton, PA/Scranton), Jacob Piotrowski (Old Bridge, NJ/Old Bridge), Alton Smargiassi (Bloomsburg, PA/Central Columbia) and Leo Miller (Oak Forest, IL/Oak Forest), clocking in with a 1:46.16 time. All four of them would take home gold in an individual event as well.

Dainty took the top spot in the 100 yard freestyle (52.76) and third in the 200 yard freestyle. Piotrowski won the 100 yard backstroke (58.30) and finished second in the 200 yard breaststroke. Smargiassi won both the 200 yard butterfly (2:14.77) and 100 yard butterfly (58.81), and finished third in the 100 yard freestyle, and then Miller finished first in the 500 yard freestyle (5:22.85), while finishing second in the 200 yard freestyle.

Piotrowski and Dainty also competed in the 200 yard freestyle relay alongside Luke Donato (Westerly, RI/Westerly) and Jack DeLuca (Easton, PA/Moravian Academy), finishing in first place with a time of 1:36.33. Similarly to his teammates, DeLuca also earned a top spot in an individual event. The first-year won the 1000 yard freestyle with an 11:22.01 time, and finished second in both the 100 yard breaststroke and 500 yard freestyle. 

Other first place finishers include Tobias Misinay (Russell, KY/Pulaski County) and Joshua Robinson (Richmond, VA/St. Christopher's). Misinay finished first in the 200 yard breaststroke (2:29.53) and 200 yard IM (2:13.06), while also taking second place in the 100 yard backstroke. Robinson took the top spot in the 100 yard breaststroke with a 1:10.15 time, and placed third in the 200 yard breaststroke behind Misinay and Piotrowski.

Although he didn't earn gold in any event, first-year Max Johnson (Clarksburg, MD/Clarksburg) earned top-three finishes in the three individual events he competed in. He started with second place finishes in both the 200 yard butterfly and backstroke, and finished third in the 200 yard breaststroke.

Next up for the Colonels is a road tri-meet against Stevenson University and King's College on Saturday, Nov. 8 at 1 p.m.