Seton Hall University
BIG EAST Day Four
Logan, Zebrowski Add Titles as MS&D Places Third
2/22/2015 12:00:00 AM | Men's Swimming and Diving
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ITHACA, N.Y. - Less than 24 hours after the Seton Hall men's swimming & diving team made program history by crowning two conference champions in the same day for the first time ever, senior James Logan (Wallingford, Pa.) and freshman Matt Zebrowski (Sayreville, N.J.) combined to repeat the feat and help guide the Pirates to a third-place finish at the 2015 BIG EAST Championships.
The victories for Logan and Zebrowski pushed The Hall's gold medal haul to five on the men's side this week, the highest total in the history of the program. Their efforts placed them alongside Ben Mitchell (Milford, Pa.) and Noah Yanchulis (Arnold, Md.) as members of the men's team that reached the top of the podium this week.
At the conclusion of the competition, Mitchell was recognized with his second-straight Most Outstanding Male Diver Award while Seton Hall's Pete DeNoble was tabbed Diving Coach of the Year for both the men and the women.
In the pool though, it was a déjà vu of dominance for Logan who took the same path to the 200-breast title as he did when he captured his first conference crown a season ago. Logan finished the morning session in as the top seed in the event and went on to defend his championship with a winning time of 2:03.87.
Freshman Sean Sali (Bridgewater, N.J.) earned bronze, placing just over .3 seconds outside the runner-up spot while Collin Dunn (Litchfield, Conn.) and Steve Hausmann (North Attleboro, Mass.) added 12th and 16th-place finishes respectively.
With the win, Logan became the fourth member of the men's program to capture multiple BIG EAST titles for SHU, joining Mitchell, three-time champion Kevin Webster and Sean Gowrie. Logan and Webster are also the only Seton Hall swimmers on the men's side ever to repeat as champion in the event.
Two standouts who took their own steps towards joining that elite group in their debut appearances at the conference meet were Zebrowski and Yanchulis and on Saturday the two emerged as the class of the 200-fly field.
Like Logan, Zebrowski earned the top seed in prelims and delivered a championship during the night session, finishing as the only entrant to crack the 1:50.00 mark (1:49.33). After a golden performance in the 200-free, Yanchulis was the runner-up to his classmate with a 1:51.86 in the final.
Sophomore Seth Underwood (Collegeville, Pa.) also made the top-eight in the 200-fly, contributing seventh-place points, while senior Zach DeLillo (Sinking Spring, Pa.) was the first to reach the wall in the B final. Freshman Ryan Lockhart (Monroe, N.Y.) placed 13th overall.
As was the case on Friday, The Hall narrowly missed out on adding several more championship performances - recording runner-up efforts in two of the three other individual events that were held on the final day.
Freshman Zohar Suslovich (Holon, Israel) paced four Pirates in the 200-back, coming within .2 seconds of the top spot by finishing in 1:48.68. Keith Carlino (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.) (fourth) and Tim Bosse (New Windsor, N.Y.) (seventh) also competed in the A final while rookie Michael Mattera (Deer Park, N.Y.) added a B final victory to take ninth.
A mile-long battle for the right to be called champion came down to the finish but freshman Cody Wimmer (Macungie, Pa.) (15:48.11) was ultimately edged by eventual Most Outstanding Male Swimmer award winner James Foster of Xavier who took first in 15:45.07.
Hausmann (10th), Ian Campbell (Corvallis, Ore.) (13th) and Lockhart (16th) all finished among the top-16 as well.
Another freshman in Jason Tan (Bridgewater, N.J.) was the lone Pirate to advance to the night session in the 100-free and went on to claim 12th-place in 47.37.
In the final event of the meet, Yanchulis, Carlino, Logan and Bosse teamed up to add another top-three time in the 400-free relay, finishing in a combined 3:05.80.
The men's final rankings mirrored those from 2014 as Xavier repeated as team champions with 904 points ahead of second-place Georgetown (763). The Pirates placed third but increased their point total by nearly 200 points compared to last year, tallying a total of 690. SHU finished 150 points closer to the Hoyas than they did a season ago and were well clear of Villanova (416) and Providence (220).
FINAL TEAM RANKINGS
1. Xavier - 904
2. Georgetown - 763
3. Seton Hall - 690
4. Villanova - 416
5. Providence - 220
