WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Sweeping all 11 events, the Lycoming College men's swimming team cruised to a 138-56 win over Lebanon Valley College to open the season with two wins for the first time since 1998 on Saturday, Oct. 23, at the Lamade Gym Natatorium. A short-handed women's team fell to the Flying Dutchmen, 137-52.
 
Sophomore Carter Branigan (Lansdowne, Pa./Commonwealth Charter) won three individual events to pace the Warriors and senior Jake Booth (Wallingford, Pa./Strath Haven) added two individual wins and a relay win. First-year Noah Vivian (Barto, Pa./Boyertown Area) also added one individual win and two relay wins.
 
Branigan won the 200-yard individual medley (2:09.44), the 100-yard butterfly (54.49) and the 100-yard backstroke (57.65) in impressive fashion. Booth won the 200- (1:51.36) and 500-yard (5:11.70) freestyles for the second straight week and teamed with sophomore C.J. Zortman (York, Pa./York Suburban), junior Reilly Gluz (Syracuse, N.Y./Williston Northampton) and Vivian to post a time of 1:34.33 to win the 200-yard freestyle relay by more than five seconds. Vivian won the 50-yard freestyle (22.60) and anchored the 200-yard freestyle relay and swam the butterfly in the 200-yard medley relay, which won in 1:44.33, as he teamed with Zortman and juniors Will Marcinkowski (Philadelphia, Pa./LaSalle College) and Matthew Michenfelder (East Windsor, N.J./Hightstown) for another five-second win.
 
Sophomore Eliot Keith (New Ringgold, Pa./Blue Mountain) won the 100-yard freestyle in 51.18, Gluz took the 1,000-yard freestyle in 12:05.41 and Marcinkowski won the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:04.24.
 
Sophomore Elisa DiNicola led the Warrior women, as she won the 50-yard freestyle (26.55) and 500-yard freestyle (6:04.27). Sophomore Courtney Chapman (Warminster, Pa./William Tenant) won the 1,000-yard freestyle in 12:44.07 and senior Devon Kaiser (Cinnaminson, N.J./Cinnaminson) won the 200-yard individual medley in 2:27.84 and was just touched out by less than two-tenths of a second to take second in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:17.19).
 
The Warriors return to action on Sunday, Oct. 31, as they take on Stevenson at 1 p.m. in Owings Mills, Md.
 
Men: Lycoming 138, Lebanon Valley 56
200 Medley Relay: Lycoming, 1:44.33; 1000 Free: Reilly Gluz (LC), 12:05.41; 200 Free: Jake Booth (LC), 1:51.36; 50 Free: Noah Vivian (LC), 22:60; 200 IM: Carter Branigan (LC), 2:09.44; 100 Fly: Carter Branigan (LC), 54:49; 100 Free: Eliot Keith (LC), 51:18; 100 Back: Carter Branigan (LC), 57:65; 500 Free: Jake Booth (LC), 5:11.70; 100 Breast: Will Marcinkowski (LC), 1:04.24; 200 Free Relay: Lycoming, 1:34.33.
 
Women: Lebanon Valley 137, Lycoming 52
200 Medley Relay: Lebanon Valley, 2:16.70; 1000 Free: Courtney Chapman (LC), 12:44.07; 200 Free: Karli Averill (LVC), 2:25.97; 50 Free: Elisa DiNicola (LC), 26.55; 200 IM: Devon Kaiser (LC), 2:27.84; 100 Fly: Emily Beard (LVC), 1:07.07; 100 Free: Colleen Caribardi (LVC), 1:05.39; 100 Back: Cayla Sydow (LVC), 1:07.59; 500 Free: Elisa DiNicola (LC), 6:04.27; 100 Breast: Courtney Betstock (LVC), 1:17.04; 200 Free Relay: Lebanon Valley, 1:51.41.