Men's Swimming and Diving Earns Win Over Yale at HYP Meet
Pictured: Michael Stanton, who won the three-meter diving
event Friday, placed third in the one-meter Saturday.
Photo courtesy: David Silverman Photography
Complete
Results
PRINCETON, N.J. –- The Harvard men’s
swimming and diving team topped Yale and fell to Princeton at the
annual HYP meet, held at Princeton’s DeNunzio Pool. The
Crimson outscored the Bulldogs, 242-106, but dropped the portion of
the meet to the Tigers by a score of 203-150.
In the 500 freestyle, Mason Brunnick led a group of Harvard
finishers, as the Crimson posted the top four times in the event.
Brunnick won the race in 4:26.82, followed by Alex Meyer (4:29.06,
Blake Lewkowitz (4:33.56) and Matthew McLean (4:36.00). Niall
Janney picked up a win for Harvard (7-2, 6-1 Ivy League) as he swam
the fastest time of the meet in the 400 IM. Janney touched the wall
in 3:56.47, while teammate Douwe Yntema was third in 4:00.75.
The Crimson grabbed second place in the 200 medley relay, the first
event of the day, as Jordan Diekema, Owen Wurzbacher, Nicholas Tan
and Eric Taylor combined for a combined time of 1:31.52. Harvard
took third in the 400 freestyle relay, as Brunnick, Brendan
McIntee, Greg Pelton and Matthew McLean had a collective mark of
3:04.38. In the one-meter diving competition, Michael Stanton, who
won the three-meter event Friday, finished third, as he amassed a
score of 284.85. Will Heyburn and Nicholas DuCille were sixth and
seventh, respectively, in the 100 freestyle. Heyburn grabbed the
wall in 45.92, while DuCille followed close behind him in
46.30.
Harvard had two swimmers finish in the top four of the 200
backstroke, as Robert Newell placed third in 1:48.74, while
Diekema’s time of 1:51.80 was good for fourth place. In the
100 butterfly, Tan posted Harvard’s best time in the event,
swimming the race in 49.58, as he placed fourth. In the final
individual race on Saturday, Justin Davidson touched the wall in
2:03.80 to place second, followed a third-place finish from
Wurzbacher in 2:03.81.
Harvard will next compete at the ECAC Championships in Pittsburgh,
Pa., Feb. 26-28.
