Newburgh, N.Y. – The Mount Saint Mary College Men's Swimming team returned to the Kaplan Center Pool on Saturday and suffered a tight 74-63 Skyline Conference loss to visiting Purchase. Jackson Lerner (Bayside, N.Y.) and Tyler Williams (Middlebury, Conn.) rounded out the afternoon with two individual wins apiece.
 
Lerner topped the field for the Mount on Saturday in both the 50-yard freestyle and the 100-yard butterfly. Lerner's freestyle victory came in 24.83 seconds and his butterfly triumph came in 1:02.09.
 
Williams scored wins for the Mount in the 200-yard individual medley as well as the 500-yard freestyle. His initial win came in a time of 2:27.41 before he posted a winning time of 5:57.21 in the longest event of the afternoon.
 
Joseph Tagliareni (Hackettstown, N.J.) also turned in a strong meet for the Mount, scoring a victory in the 100-yard backstroke and taking the runner-up position in the 100-yard breaststroke. Tagliareni's victory came in 59.02 seconds before touching out in the breaststroke race in 1:13.20.
 
Atticus Salazar picked up a third place finish for the Knights in the 200-yard freestyle in a time of 2:49.42 and joined Williams, Lerner and Tagliareni on the winning 200-yard medley relay team that posted a first place time of 2:00.25.
 
Saturday's loss drops Mount Saint Mary to 1-4 overall on the season and 0-2 against conference rivals. The Knights will be off until January 8 when they travel to local foe Bard.