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Black and Gold end regular season on high with victory at BU
Posted: Jan 27, 2024

Black and Gold end regular season on high with victory at BU

Results

BOSTON - The Bryant University men's swimming & diving team grabbed a big 159.5-133.5 victory over Boston University to end the regular season on Saturday afternoon.

Christopher Buonocore set a new program record in the 3 meter dive while James Misto grabbed two individual wins on top of helping the relay team to two victories to lead the way for the Bulldogs.

Coach's thoughts on the meet…

"All around the meet of the year so far for the men and women!  Tons of best times, season best and four school records!  Very proud of how we competed and this gives us great momentum headed into our conference meet in two and half weeks."

Notes and Notables

  • Buonocore took both the 1 and 3 meter events on the diving side. He broke 300 in both events, scoring 312.83 in the 1m and a 339.28 in the 3m to shatter the program record by almost 20 points. Buonocore's scores qualify him for the NCAA Division I Diving Championships in both events.
  • The relay team did their part by snagging tightly contested wins in the 200 yard medley relay and the 200 yard freestyle relay. The team of Griffin Lajoie, Gustav Persson, James Misto, and Conner Lofstrom won the medley relay with a time of 1:30.94. Then the squad of Misto, Alex Rowson, Chase Konstantakos, and Loftsrom pulled out the win in the free relay in the final leg with a time of 1:23.82.
  • Misto picked up individual wins in the 50 yard  freestyle and the 100 yard butterfly. The freshman raced to a season best 20.61 in the free and a 48.87 in the fly.
  • Lofstrom grabbed an individual win in the 100 yard freestyle with a time of 45.87 in the race.
  • Persson, like many of his fellow relay teammates, took an individual victory on the afternoon. The graduate student won the 200 yard breaststroke with a time of 2:02.41. Persson also placed second in the 100 yard breast at 55.86.
  • Lajoie pulled out a win in the 100 yard backstroke for the Black and Gold. He raced to 50.35 to grab all  nine points in the event.
  • Junior Leo Luna joined in on the fun as well by cruising to victory in the 1000 yard freestyle. Luna laid down a 9:22.56 in the event to win by just over 10 seconds. Luna also took second in the 500 yard freestyle at 4:34.52.

Up Next

Bryant won't compete again until they make the trip to Lexington, VA for the America East Championships on Feb.13-17th hosted by VMI.