Bryan Solomon finished third in the 200-yard butterfly while placing fourth in the 100-yard butterfly and sixth in the 50-yard freestyle.
Bryan Solomon finished third in the 200-yard butterfly while placing fourth in the 100-yard butterfly and sixth in the 50-yard freestyle.

Titans Place Second At Gene Davis Invitational

Matt Wilke dove to a pair of second-place finishes while Grady Hilgendorf, Jarrett Lieder, Dylan Sobolewski, Bryan Solomon and Josiah Vandenberg swam to top-eight listings in three events apiece as the UW-Oshkosh men's swimming & diving team ranked second at Lawrence University's Gene Davis Invitational on Saturday (Nov. 18) in Appleton.

Lake Forest College (Ill.) won the six-team meet with 547 points while UW-Oshkosh finished second with 466 and Ripon College third with 413. Lawrence University placed fourth with 347 points, Carroll University fifth with 316 and Beloit College sixth with 219.

Wilke achieved his second-place diving finishes by totaling 436.28 points off the 1-meter board and 454.80 off the 3-meter plank.

Hilgendorf finished second in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:07.14 while placing third in the 1,650-yard freestyle at 18:43.02 and sixth in the 500-yard freestyle at 5:21.05.

Lieder earned top-eight mentions in three freestyle events. He finished second at 1,650 yards with a time of 18:01.64, fourth at 500 in 5:10.96 and seventh at 200 in 1:57.03.

Sobolewski placed seventh in the 400-yard individual medley with a time of 5:08.45 while ranking eighth in both the 200-yard individual medley and 200-yard breaststroke with times of 2:21.02 and 2:45.36, respectively.

Solomon finished third in the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 2:12.10 while placing fourth in the 100-yard butterfly at 56.95 seconds and sixth in the 50-yard freestyle at 23.88 seconds.

Vandenberg swam to fourth-place times of 1:01.39 in the 100-yard backstroke and 2:12.52 in the 200-yard butterfly while finishing fifth in the 500-yard freestyle at 5:10.99.

The Titans' Mitchell Bricco contributed a fourth-place time of 2:31.04 in the 200-yard breaststroke and a sixth-place performance of 2:14.01 in the 200-yard individual medley.

UW-Oshkosh's David Bain added times of 1:03.94 in the 100-yard backstroke and 2:21.24 in the 200-yard backstroke that listed sixth and eighth, respectively.

Brandon Davison completed UW-Oshkosh's top-eight finishes with his eighth-place swim of 1:59.13 in the 200-yard freestyle.

The Titans also placed third in the 200-yard freestyle relay as Solomon, Vandenberg, Trevor Jacobs and Nathan Newman registered a time of 1:36.84. 

UW-Oshkosh's next competition is at the three-day Carthage College Classic on Nov. 30 - Dec. 2 in Kenosha.