GREENE – The Greene Trojan swimmers captured their first win of the new year, defeating the Susquehanna Valley Sabers 78-73 Friday evening.

Second and third place finishers in the meet were where the points were picked up by each team as both Greene and Sus Valley won six events, splitting the meet in for first place finishers.

Starting the meet off with a first place finished was the Trojans’ 200 yard medley relay team. Kevin Gyurik, Luke DeJager, Dustin Markham and Trent deHaan raced to a time of 2:11.09 for the win.

The Sabers took the next two events but Greene’s Markham out swam the field in the 50 yard freestyle sprint, winning with a time of 25.88 seconds.

Susquehanna Valley’s Kadin LeVene won the diving event and teammate Richard Bedosky took first the event following, the 100 yard butterfly, to give the Sabers the lead.

The Trojans’ took the advantage back when deHaan swam a 58.57 in the 100 yard freestyle while DeJager helped by winning his first individual event of the night in the 500 yard freestyle. In the longest race of the meet, DeJager touched the wall in 6:23.71.

Markham also won the 100 yard backstroke and was a member of the 400 yard freestyle rally team that secured the victory for Greene. He was joined by Dalton Krupp, deHaan and DeJager as the foursome raced to first place with a time of 4:22.72.