Two Salisbury University students accused of being part of a group of a dozen who lured a man to an apartment using a dating app and beat him because of his sexual preferences have admitted to their roles in the attack, court records show.

Logan T. Clark, a 20-year-old from Severna Park, and Sean Antone, a 19-year-old from West Friendship in Howard County, each pleaded guilty Thursday to false imprisonment, online court records show.

Both had been charged with second-degree assault, but as part of the plea agreement prosecutors placed those counts on the inactive docket.

Wicomico District Judge David Martz sentenced the pair to two years in jail, suspending all but the time they already served behind bars or on pretrial supervision with a GPS ankle monitor — 68 days in Clark’s case, two for Antone.

Both will be subjected to 18 months of supervised probation.

“We got a very fair result,” said attorney David Whitfield Moore, who represents Clark. “He was there but did not participate in the actual assault of this young man.”

Moore said his client could ask the judge after six to 12 months to change his sentence to probation before judgment, a special plea that does not count as a conviction. He said his client was a “really good kid” who has a job and has enrolled in another college.

“He was there. He’s very sad that he was there,” Moore said. “He apologized to the court. He apologized to the victim.”

Antone’s lawyer declined to comment.

A third student charged in the case, Dylan K. Pietuszka, of Elkton, is due in court Friday on charges of second-degree assault and false imprisonment. Online court records list his court date as a trial, although Clark’s and Antone’s cases were both slated for trial Thursday.

The Wicomico County State’s Attorney’s Office, which is prosecuting the cases of the students accused in the attacks, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Several of the students accused in the attack were originally charged with hate crimes until Wicomico County prosecutors chose not to pursue those crimes.

One of the accused students pretended to be a 16-year-old named “Mason” on the dating app Grindr, mostly used by gay and bisexual men, according to charging documents.

The pair exchanged numbers and arranged to meet Oct. 15 at an apartment near Salisbury’s campus.

The student pretending to be the teen was waiting on the apartment’s balcony and, when the man arrived, summoned approximately 15 other students, authorities said.

The students allegedly surrounded the man, forced him into a chair, and assaulted him while berating him with gay slurs.

Students “slapped, punched, kicked and spit on” the man, according to charging documents. One of the students even struck him with a “cooking sheet.”

Authorities said the victim, who was not a student, suffered a broken rib.

Salisbury banned the students allegedly involved from campus and placed them on “interim suspension.”

Meanwhile, the students’ fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, expelled them from the Greek organization.

University spokesperson Jason Rhodes told The Baltimore Sun Thursday that Antone “remains under interim suspension, while (Clark) is no longer a student.”

Rhodes said Salisbury is conducting its own investigation to determine whether there were violations of the school’s “Code of Student Conduct.” The outcome of such probes are not usually made public, he said, but can determine sanctions ranging “from a warning to removal from the university.”

“Hate has no place at Salisbury University,” Rhodes said.

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