PHILADELPHIA – Junior Jeremy Marcin led the Cornell men's swimming and diving team in its Ivy League tri-meet against Penn and Princeton, notching a pair of second place finishes in his events on Saturday at Penn's Sheerr Pool in Philadelphia.
Marcin's runner-up placings came in the 50 freestyle and 100 butterfly, where he clocked in at 21.22 in the 50 freestyle and 49.60 in the 100 butterfly to finish second in both events. Marcin had support from his fellow Big Red teammates in both events, with Ian Mackey notching a sixth-place finish in the 50 freestyle (21.63) and Joseph Gurski placing fifth in the 100 butterfly (50.49). The top-five finish in the 100 butterfly wasn't the only of the day for Gurski, however, as the freshman's best finish came in the 200 butterfly where he placed fourth in 1:52.09.
Jacob Bass notched a fourth-place finish of his own in the 200 breaststroke, touching the wall in 2:07.00. Jack Valiquette completed the race two spots behind Bass, placing sixth in the 200 breaststroke with a time of 2:09.52.
Senior freestyle distance specialist Jake Lawson swam well in his events, placing fifth in the 1,000 freestyle in 9:44.31 and sixth in the 500 freestyle in 4:42.27. Freshmen Sebastian Wolff and Jack Banks each notched a sixth-place finish in their respective events, with Wolff finishing his 100 breaststroke race in 58.03 and Banks completing his 100 freestyle race in 47.41.
Banks teamed up with Gurski, Marcin, and Kyle Pro in the 400 freestyle relay, as the Big Red quartet beat Penn in the event and placed fourth overall with a time of 3:07.84.
Despite improvement from a week ago and multiple strong performances by the Big Red, Cornell fell to both Penn and Princeton on Saturday. Penn emerged victorious by a score of 208.50 to 91.50, while Princeton bested the Big Red by a score of 235.50 to 64.50. With the losses, Cornell drops to 1-4 on the season and 0-4 in the conference standings.
The Cornell men's swimming and diving team will be back in action when it competes at the Zippy Invitational, hosted by Akron, on Dec. 3-5 in Akron, Ohio.
