Middlebury sits in seventh place out of 11 teams as day one comes to an end during the 2015 NESCAC Men's Swimming & Diving Championships held inside the Middlebury College Natatorium. Williams leads the way with 709 points, while Amherst is second with 577 points. Connecticut College (534.5), Bates (409) and Tufts (360.5) round out the top five, while the host Panthers are seventh (254.5).
The Panthers started the evening off with an eighth-place finish in the 200 free relay. The quartet of Paul Lagasse, Stephan Koenigsberger, Noel Antonisse and Bryan Cheuk stopped the clock in 1:24.54.
In the evening's next championship final, Koenigsberger touched the wall in a fourth-place tie with Connecticut College's Kirk Czelewicz with identical times of 25.80 in the 50 breaststroke.
During Friday's one-meter diving final, Dylan Peters matched his finish from a season ago with a sixth-place effort accumulating 376.05 points.
The final event of the initial evening saw the Panther 400 medley relay team of Alex Smith, Koenigsberger, Teddy Kuo and Lagasse finish with a time of 3:26.84, good for seventh place.
The Panthers return for day two of the championship Saturday with the morning preliminaries scheduled to begin at 10:00 a.m., while the finals session will start at 6:00 p.m.
