WAYNE, N.J. – The Maritime men's swimming and diving teams opened up the 2016-17 season on Tuesday evening with a 130-106 victory over the William Paterson Pioneers from Wightman Pool in Northern New Jersey. The women's swimming and diving teams fell by a score of 130-86 to open the season.
 
The men's team won six events of the 13 contested on the evening, including both diving events. The women's team tallied victories in four events on the night.
 
After setting the program record in the 200 medley relay a season ago, the quartet of sophomores Kevin Wu (Flushing, N.Y./Francis Lewis), Nathanael Marino (Orwigsburg, Pa./Blue Mountain), Preston Truong (Austin, Texas/Round Rock), and junior Doug Russell (Oakdale, N.Y./Connetquot) were at it again with a strong starting point to the season with a 1:43.44 and an 11 point total to open the night.
 
The second Privateer entry of freshmen Edwin Moriarty (Long Beach, N.Y./Long Island Lutheran), Ian Folan (Bethel, Conn./Notre Dame), Matthew Hart (Bayonne, N.J./St. Peter's Prep) and senior Jonathan Murray (Long Beach, N.Y./Kellenberg) were six seconds off the pace but finished second to score another four points for the Privateers.
 
Freshman Stephen Kelleher (Poughquag, N.Y./Our Lady of Lourdes) got his career off to a quick start in the 1,000 freestyle with a 10:46.29 as he won the event. Senior Robert Lewis (Belchertown, Mass./Belchertown) also scored three points for Maritime with a third place finish at 11:49.87.
 
Truong scored his first individual win of the season with a 1:54.57 in the 200 freestyle, while Moriarty was on his heels at 1:56.10. Wu scored a second place finish in the 50 freestyle as he touched the wall with a time of 22.68. During the 200 individual medley, Marino finished second with a 2:13.97.
 
After the first diving break, the swimming team resumed competition as Truong recorded a second place finish in the 100 butterfly at 58.34. Freshman Adam Durrua (Point Pleasant, N.J./Point Pleasant Beach) collected a 1:01.02 for three more points in the fly. Russell added another second place finish for the Privateers in the 100 freestyle with a 51.74.
 
Moriarty was second in the 100 backstroke with a 1:00.77, while sophomore Lillo Rubino (Islip Terrace, N.Y./Central Islip) had a 1:01.59 and finished third. Kelleher collected another win with a 5:16.87 in the 500 freestyle, while Lewis tallied a 3:57.57.Marino took second in the final individual race of the night with a 1:06.47 in the 100 breaststroke.
 
Russell, Kelleher, sophomore Spencer Blass (Gaithersburg, Md./Quince Orchard) and Wu finished less than a second behind the leader in the 200 freestyle relay, while the second Privateer squad of junior Andrew Katz (Greenlawn, N.Y./Glenn-Elwood), senior Charles Schnebel (Stony Brook, N.Y./Ward Melville), Murray and Durrua came in third with a 1:38.94.
 
The men's diving squad got off to a strong start on the season as senior Ryan Wood (Sparta, N.J./Blair Academy) scored points for the Privateers in both the one and three meter diving events. Wood scored 159.60 points in the short dives, while scoring a meet-best 143.33 in first place during the high dives.

Senior John Brown (Keystone Heights, Fla./Keystone Heights) finished first with a 168.25 to take first place in the one meter dive, while sophomore Kurt Schieferstein (Lattingtown, N.Y./Chaminade) added a third place finish with a score of 104.85.
 
The women's squad opened up the season with a two-second win in the 200 medley relay as junior Sarah Soulagnet (Lindenhurst, N.Y./Homeschooled), sophomores Emily Zink (Brockport, N.Y./Brockport), and Katia Aaron (Clarence, N.Y./Clarence) and freshman Katherine Green (Oakdale, N.Y./Connetquot) picked up 11 points for the team with a time of 2:05.03.
 
Aaron continued her early success with a strong showing in the 1,000 freestyle as she held a lead in the closing stages of the event before being edged out by eight seconds with a 12:34.51. Senior Ashley O'Brien (Queens, N.Y./Mary Louis Academy) scored one point with a 14:05.25.
 
Sophomore Erica Davis (Oakdale, N.Y./Connetquot) was Maritime's top finisher in the 200 freestyle as she picked up a time of 2:39.16, while Green picked up her second win of the evening in the 50 freestyle as she threatened the program record with a time of 26.15.
 
Zink led Maritime with a second place finish in the 200 IM, as she touched the wall with a time of 2:36.93. That was followed by Aaron leading Maritime in the 100 butterfly with a 1:11.19 and a third place finish. Senior Danielle Leahy (Cocoa Beach, Fla./Cocoa Beach) led Maritime with her time of 1:05.03 in the 100 freestyle as she was just three seconds off the pace.
 
Freshman Gabrielle Thompson (Alexandria, Va./T.C. Williams) was the top Privateer finisher in the 100 backstroke, while junior Grace Stanton (Oakdale, N.Y./Connetquot) led Maritime in the 500 freestyle with a 6:24.95. Zink picked up nine points with a first place finish later in the meet during the 100 breaststroke as she registered a time of 1:20.91.
 
Stanton, Leahy, Soulagnet and Green led Maritime to 11 more points with a 1:50.59 in the 200 freestyle relay. Maritime's second entry featured O'Brien, Davis, freshman Maura Neely (Towson, Md./Maryvale Prep), and Thompson, who finished with a time of 2:08.59.
 
In the diving events, freshman Macy Blakeley (Falls Church, Va./George C. Marshall) scored a 129.90 as she finished third, while junior Alexandra Schnabel (Lindenhurst, N.Y./St. Anthony's) finished fourth in the one-meter diving with a score of 112.80. The Privateers did not have entries in the three-meter diving.
 
The men's and women's swimming and diving teams will be back in action on Thursday, when the Privateers open up the home part of its campaign with a 6 p.m. start at home against the Lehman Lightning from the Riesenberg Aquatic Center.