Nicholson Wins 400 IM, Bison Men in Third Place at Bucknell Invitational

Final Day of Three-Day Meet Takes Place Sunday

Mike Nicholson

Nov. 17, 2012

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LEWISBURG, Pa. - One day after finishing third in the 200-yard IM, Bucknell junior Mike Nicholson won the 400 IM to lead the Bison men's swimming and diving team on the second day of the Bucknell Invitational Saturday at Kinney Natatorium. Bucknell is in third place in the team standings with one day left in the weekend meet.

Nicholson easily won both the prelims and the finals of the 400 IM. He won the finals race by 4.72 seconds and the prelims by 4.50. His best time was 3 minutes, 55.09 seconds in the final. There were only three sub-4:00 times in the 400 IM all day and Nicholson had two of them.

After Nicholson, Christian Treat had Bucknell's best individual finish Saturday as he touched the wall third in the 100 breast. He moved up three spots from his sixth-place finish in the prelims.

Matt Hadley's fourth-place finish in the 200 free was Bucknell's top showing in that event. His time of 1:41.72 was just .33 seconds from 10th place on the Bison all-time list. He improved three spots from his seventh-place showing in the prelims.

Erik Heinemann (10th in 100 fly) and Will Rappaport (12th in 100 back) were Bucknell's other top finishers in individual swimming events. Rappaport also posted a fifth-place showing in the 400 IM. His time of 4:03.19 ranks him sixth in program history.

Freshman Patrick Alvermann was the team's top finisher in the three-meter diving competition as his score listed him eighth in both the prelims and finals. His prelims score of 234.20 ranked him on Bucknell's all-time top-10 list, but he bettered that in the finals (248.30) and is now listed sixth.

The Bucknell Invitational will wrap up Sunday. Prelims are at 10 a.m. and finals are at 5 p.m.

Team Scores
1. Yale - 1077
2. Delaware - 858.5
3. Bucknell - 776
4. La Salle - 581
5. Binghamton - 562
6. Georgetown - 416
7. Fordham - 409.5

New Top-10 Marks
400 IM (6. Will Rappaport - 4:03.19)
3-meter diving (6. Patrick Alverman - 248.30)

Bucknell Results
Patrick Alvermann
3-meter diving prelims - 8th, 234.20
3-meter diving finals - 8th, 248.30

George Beatty
400 IM prelims - 24th, 4:14.14
400 IM finals - 23rd, 4:13.73
200 free prelims - 38th, 1:46.77

Mike Davitt
100 fly prelims - 42nd, 54.64
200 free prelims - 51st, 1:49.92

Collin Greene
200 free prelims - 47th, 1:48.64

Steve Grune
100 fly prelims - 12th, 51.71
100 fly finals - 11th, 51.42

Matt Hadley
200 free prelims - 7th, 1:42.84
200 free finals - 4th, 1:41.72
100 back prelims - 12th, 52.51
100 back finals - 15th, 53.82

Erik Heinemann
100 fly prelims - 11th, 51.68
100 fly finals - 10th, 50.95

Cameron James
200 free prelims - 14th, 1:43.94
200 free finals - 9th, 1:43.16

Edward Jew
100 fly prelims - 45th, 55.61

Jon Jones
3-meter diving prelims - 12th, 193.75

Billy Krause
400 IM prelims - 13th, 4:10.01
400 IM finals - 9th, 4:05.93

Marshall Lambert
100 breast prelims - 28th, 1:01.84

Wes Marberry
100 back prelims - 23rd, 53.62
100 back finals - 22nd, 53.49

JT Nangle
100 fly prelims - 35th, 53.72
100 back prelims - 26th, 54.32

Mike Nicholson
400 IM prelims - 1st, 3:57.32
400 IM finals - 1st, 3:55.09

Chris Ortiz
100 fly prelims - 26th, 52.48
200 free prelims - 35th, 1:45.89

Tim Perley
100 breast prelims - 10th, 59.07
100 breast finals - 12th, 58.77
100 back prelims - 36th, 55.96

Brian Phillips
400 IM prelims - 29th, 4:15.88
200 free prelims - 53rd, 1:50.56

Will Rappaport
400 IM prelims - 5th, 4:03.19
400 IM finals - 5th, 4:03.73
100 back prelims - 13th, 52.57
100 back finals - 12th, 52.19

Trevor Reitz
100 fly prelims - 19th, 52.13
100 fly finals - 23rd, 52.55
200 free prelims - 43rd, 1:47.62

Ben Seketa
100 breast prelims - 5th, 57.83
100 breast finals - 6th, 57.58

Jeff Shanley
400 IM prelims - 30th, 4:16.11

Matt Stevens
100 breast prelims - 21st, 1:00.15
100 breast finals - 19th, 59.57

Bryce Suchomel
100 fly prelims - 17th, 52.02
100 fly finals - 21st, 51.94
100 back prelims - 32nd, 55.19

Christian Treat
100 breast prelims - 6th, 58.05
100 breast finals - 3rd, 57.04

Daniel Wallace
200 free prelims - 26th, 1:45.40

Tyler Wenzel
3-meter diving prelims - 9th, 219.40

200 medley relay
Hadley, Treat, Grune, Reitz - 6th,1:34.59
Nangle, Seketa, Suchomel, Ortiz - 9th, 1:35.68
Marberry, Perley, Davitt, Wallace - 15th, 1:37.55

800 free relay
Heinemann, Treat, James, Seketa - 3rd, 6:50.95
Wallace, Reitz, Ortiz, Krause - 10th, 7:01.86
Phillips, Beatty, Perley, Shanley - 14th, 7:07.40