HAMPTON, Va. – The TCNJ men's swimming and diving team surged past the rest of the pack and into a comfortable perch atop the team standings with a dominant performance chock full of B-cut times on the second day of the NJAC Championships.
 
The Lions won both relays as well as two individual events, all while going 1-2 on the 1-meter boards to end the night with 635 team points, more than 200 clear of second-place Merchant Marine.
 
Ethan Weiss won his fourth consecutive 1-meter diving title at the conference meet, with teammate Michael Wu backing him up in second.
 
Ryan Higgins (200 IM) and M.J. Hoban (50 free) each won individual titles with B-cut times, while Gavin Formon and Steven Bendoraitis each notched B-cuts in the 500 free.
 
Hoban joined Andrew Kidchob and Joe McChesney as part of both the first-place 200 free and 400 medley relays, both of which registered B-cut marks of their own.
 
TOP PERFORMANCES
500 FREE

• Formon took over a second and a half off his previous personal best, placing runner-up with a B-cut mark of 4:27.21 that currently ranks 7^th in the nation
• Steven Bendoraitis came in third with a TCNJ-best 4:30.36, good for 14^th nationally, while Keilan Moran (4:34.11) and Brian Bull (4:37.10) finished sixth and seventh, respectively

200 IM

• Higgins made it a 3-peat in the 200 IM, and he needed every bit of his B-cut mark of 1:48.63 to edge Roger Williams' Riley Williams by a little over half a second. Higgins' time is good for 5^th in Division III this season
• Andrew Walter (1:51.86), Tyler McGeehan (1:52.61), Jonah Stein (1:52.81), Shawn Kushner (1:54.82), and Ryan VanDeVeen (2:00.78) finished fourth through eighth, respectively, as the Lions put a remarkable six swimmers into the A-final in the event.
• Pablo Salazar placed 10^th with a PR of over a second (1:51.84), a time that would have landed him fourth in the A-final, and Dylan Negron finished in 16^th (1:55.11)

50 FREE

• Hoban pulled off an upset in the 50 free, touching the wall in 20.16 seconds to edge Rowan's Jack Watson by .02 seconds; that time is 12^th in Division III.
• McChesney placed sixth with a personal-best 20.68
• Frank finished 10^th in a time of 20.93

GOLDEN RELAYS

• McChesney, Kidchob, Bradley Frank, and Hoban clocked a 1:21.42 to win the 200 free relay by .80 seconds over second-place Roger Williams. Hoban closed it out with a 19.77 split for the quartet, which moved into 10^th on the national performance list
• Hoban, Kidchob, and McChesney teamed back up again to win the 400 medley relay, this time with an assist from Ryan VanDeVeen as the foursome finished in 3:16.00 to edge Salisbury by just under a second with a time that ranks 12^th nationally

ON THE BOARDS

• Weiss made it a remarkable four-peat of 1-meter titles with a score of 463.50
• Wu was runner-up for the third straight year, posting a tally of 419.70
• Kai Zola finished sixth with a score of 280.30, just five points out of fifth

UP NEXT

• The NJAC meet continues Saturday morning with prelims of the 400 IM, 100 fly, 200 free, and 100 breast in addition to timed trials in the 200 medley relay