Greg Coleman
Greg Coleman

Coleman Triples as Bentley Stays Unbeaten with 178-118 Win at Norwich

NORTHFIELD, Vt. – Senior Greg Coleman (Lake Ronkonkoma, N.Y./Sachem North HS ) dove for two first-place finishes and swam for another as Bentley University improved to 6-0 with a 178-118 win over previously unbeaten Norwich University in men's college swimming at the Goodyear Pool Saturday afternoon.

Coleman captured both one-meter diving events, amassing a combined score of 435.25. He also finished first in the 50 yard butterfly, winning by three-tenths of a second in 24.54 seconds.

Bentley's only other multiple individual winner was freshman Jarod Yoshihara (Irvine, Calif./ University HS), who was the first to wall in both the 100 fly (55.24) and the 100 backstroke (55.02).

The Falcons swept the freestyle events with freshman Alper Alkaya (Milan, Itay) taking the 50 (22.68), sophomore Ryan McGeary (Paramus , N.J./Bergen Catholic HS) the 100 (48.73), senior Davis Wilson (Ransom Canyon, Texas/Lubbock HS) the 200 (1:50.53), senior Liam Bartlett (Syracuse, N.Y./ William Nottingham HS) the 500 (5:14.69) and sophomore Frank Elenio (Ridgefield, N.J./Bergen County Academies) the 1650 (17:21.68).

The other individual winners for Bentley were senior Matt Ahlmeyer (Morris Plains, N.J./Morristown HS) in the 50 back (26.74), freshman Sam Trozenski (Pittsburgh, Pa./Mt. Lebanon HS) in the 100 breaststroke (1:03.68) and senior Dennis Witol (Bowie, Md./Eleanor Roosevelt HS) in the 100 individual medley (57.68).

McGeary and junior Aidan Karam (Norwich, Conn./Norwich Free Academy) were members of both winning relays for the Falcons. The 200 medley relay finished in 1:4150 and the 200 free relay posted a time of 1:29.41.

Bentley completed the 2016 portion of its schedule at 6-0 while handing Norwich Its first loss of the season.      

Following a break for exams and holidays, Bentley will make its 2017 debut Jan. 11 at Pace University.