PISCATAWAY, N.J. – The men's swimming and diving team posted a 9^th place finish of 10 Division III teams and 11^th rank of 13 teams total after earning 218 cumulative points by the end of the third and final day of competition Feb 23.  Senior Jimmy Sharkey (Hamilton, N.J./Hamilton West) was awarded the Dick Krempecki Outstanding Senior Award.
 
TOP PERFORMERS:

• Four Pioneers competed in the 1650 free to start the third finals of the weekend.  Sharkey placed 15th (17:28.28), junior Bradley Belina (Paramus, N.J./Paramus) was not far behind him in 17th spot (17:59.68) with a personal best, junior John Conlow (Mount Laurel, N.J./Lenape) finished 21st with a personal best (19:10.47) and senior Matt Infurna (Fair Lawn, N.J./Fair Lawn) completed the race in 21:02.90 for 24^th place. 
• Senior Eamon Logue (Vernon, N.J./Vernon Twp.) touched 6^th in the C Final of the 100 free (48.76). 
• Junior Jonathan Vela (Prospect Park, N.J./Passaic County Tech) finished 8^th in the C Final of the 200 fly with a time of 2:32.98.
• The 400 free relay posted a 3:24.25 pace to land 2^nd in the B Final to complete the meet.  Logue (48.47), junior Valentine Perez (Hamilton, N.J./Hamilton) (52.35), Conlow (53.72) and Sharkey (49.71) added to the Pioneer point total for the meet.

 
IN THE NUMBERS:

• Multiple Pioneers recorded personal-best performances during the prelims of the final day of the competition.  Freshman Jason Peralta (Hackensack, N.J./Hackensack) posted a 2:49.34 pace in the 200 fly.
• Classmates Thomas Haughey (Folsom, Pa./Ridley) and Joey Croce (Dumont, N.J./Dumont) both had career races in the 200 back.  The juniors touched the wall in 2:17.75 and 2:18.67, respectively. 
• Perez swam a time of 2:34.62 to tally a personal-best performance in the 200 breast.

 
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