BROOKLYN, N.Y. – The Purchase College men's swim team opened the 2023 portion of its schedule with a dominant showing against non-conference Brooklyn College Thursday evening. The Panthers topped the host Bulldogs, 91-75, inside BC's West Quad Pool, resulting in the team's second win of the season.

RESULTS

Purchase lit up the board first, with the team capturing the 200-yard medley relay behind the efforts of Aidan Mauer (SR/Poughkeepsie, NY), Eli Stiewing (SR/Brooklyn, NY), Daniel Karpf (JR/Floral Park, NY) and Nicholas Switalski (SR/Buffalo, NY).  

Mauer broke the individual scoring ice with a first-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle (2:30.97). Less than four seconds later (2:34.82), teammate Gabriel Schmid-Doyle (JR/Canton, NY) hit the pad to secure second place. Karpf finished third a time of   , 2:36.02.

Brooklyn answered back with a first-place finish in the 50-free but Purchase countered in the next event, courtesy of a 200-yard IM performance (2:22.85) from Matthias Schmidt (SR/White Plains, NY). 

Switalski and Schmid-Doyle closed out the individual festivities with first and second-place finishes, respectively, in the 500-yard freestyle. 

Backed by the efforts of Jules Cabirol (SO/Riverdale, NY), Stiewing, Switalski and Schmidt in the 200-free relay, Purchase capped its scoring and secured the non-conference win. 

Purchase will return to action again on Tuesday, Jan. 24 at home against SUNY Maritime. The Jan. 17 meet against Pratt Institute has been postponed.   

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