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On This Day, 2019: Bentley Men Capture Northeast-10 Conference Swimming and Diving Championship

On February 10, 2019, following a third straight undefeated dual record, the Bentley Falcons captured the Northeast-10 Conference Men's Swimming and Diving Championships at WPI.

After a weekend that included nine gold medals and 16 school record-breaking performances, coach Mary Kay Samko's team finished with 993 points. Runner-up Southern Connecticut, with 890.5 points, was more than 100 points back and Pace, with 511, was a distant third in the seven-team meet.

Junior Dan Sausto was selected as the Northeast-10 Swimmer of the Meet earning the gold in the championship's two longest races, the 1000 yard freestyle on Thursday and the 1650 free on Sunday. His 15:57.48 in the 1650 was an NCAA "B" cut and broke the school record he set while capturing the gold two years ago, 16:06.64.

That was the first of three gold medals for the Falcons on Sunday. Freshman Mark Zoda captured the 100 freestyle a day after swimming to victory in the 200 free. Zoda twice broke the school record in the 100, posting a time of 46.08 seconds in the preliminaries and 45.83 in the finals.

The meet concluded with Bentley easily capturing gold in the 400 free relay with a member of each combining for a school record time of 3:04.44, 1.52 seconds faster than the former standard set in 2017. Sophomore Paul Homorodean was followed into the pool by junior Alper Alkaya, Zoda and senior Ryan McGeary.

Earning bronze medals for the Falcons on the meet's final day were junior Jarod Yoshihara in the 200 backstroke (1:53.27), Alkaya in the 100 free (46.64) and senior Frank Elenio in the 200 butterfly (1:51.24).

The Falcons' only fourth was achieved by freshman Alec Lanza with a time of 2:06.94 in the 200 breaststroke. In the same event, junior Matt Bandy was sixth (2:08.83), freshman Burke Sansiviero was seventh (2:09.57) and McGeary was eighth (2:09.69).