WEBSTER, NY: The SUNY Geneseo men's swimming & diving team opened its season in dominant fashion, taking first place at a quad meet against Grove City College, Nazareth and Penn State Behrend with 1,276 points.

HOW IT HAPPENED:

Dylan Gallub, Connor Baird, Alex Palmer and Brian Pabisch kicked off the meet with a first-place finish in the 200-yard medley relay, touching the wall at 1:32.16. Alex Trzaskowski, Peter Peyser, Jack Keene and Miles Moore followed in third. The Knights continued their strong start in the 200-yard freestyle, claiming second through eighth place, led by Tyler Gallub in second. Alex Palmer added another top finish in the 100-yard breaststroke, touching at 56.85.

Geneseo followed with a podium sweep in the 200-yard butterfly, led by Connor Baird in first with a time of 1:59.81, followed by Mikey White and Max Leroy. Miles Moore edged teammate Matthew Pinzon-Pacheco by just 0.07 seconds in the 50-yard freestyle, touching first at 21.53. The Knights continued to control the freestyle events in the 100-yard freestyle, with Brian Pabisch leading a Geneseo sweep of the top three spots with his finish at 46.78, followed by Pinzon Pacheco (47.80) and Dylan Gallub (48.02).

Palmer added two more individual wins, taking the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:06.96 before claiming the top spot in the 200-yard individual medley at 1:57.58. White came out on top in the 500-yard freestyle, finishing at 4:57.46, just 0.29 seconds ahead of the second-place finisher.

Dylan Gallub, Tyler Gallub, Gannon Moore and Miles Moore capped off the swimming events with a first-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle relay, touching at 1:24.99. The Knights carried that momentum into the diving events, sweeping the top five spots in the 1-meter dive. Nathan Davey led the way with 298.5 points before completing his sweep of the diving events with a first-place score of 301.40 in the 3-meter dive.

WHAT'S NEXT:

The Knights will compete against Canisius College next Saturday, October 24, at ECC.