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Big Al Invite
Men's Swimming & Diving In Third After Day One of Big Al Invite
12/4/2015 12:00:00 AM | Men's Swimming & Diving
PRINCETON, N.J. – The Brown men's swimming & diving team sits in third place with 220 points after the first day of competition in the three-day Big Al Invite at DeNunzio Pool. The host team, Princeton, stands in first place with 352 points while Pittsburgh is in second with a score of 265. The invite in comprised of swimmers from Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Princeton, Rider and Villanova.
In the day's finals, senior Cory Mayfield (Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.) and junior Daniel Klotz (Berlin, Conn.) posted the highest Bears' finish of the day, in two third-place finishes. Mayfield's came in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:29.32, just narrowing out-touching the fourth-place swimmer, who finished with a mark of 4:29.77. Sophomore Grant Casey (North Attleboro, Mass.) finished seventh in the race (4:33.44). Klotz's finish came in the 50-yard freestyle (20.38).
Sophomore Riley Springman (Orlando, Fla.) and junior Nicholas Johnston (Pleasanton, Calif.) finished back-to-back in sixth (1:49.27) and seventh (1:51.30) place, respectively, in the 200-yard IM.
A team of Klotz, junior Jack Nee (Pepper Pike, Ohio), sophomore Joshua Daniel (Vigie, Saint Lucia) and freshman Sean Han (Highstwon, N.J.) finished fourth in the 200-yard freestyle relay with a time of 1:22.21. Junior Will LaCosta (Gladstone, N.J.), freshman Nicholas Brown (Sudbury, Mass.), freshman William Steele (Katy, Texas) and freshman Charles Steele (Katy, Texas) placed right behind them in fifth (1:22.39).
Another relay team of sophomore Willy Lee (Palo Alto, Calif.), freshman Waylon Jin (Berwyn, Pa.), W. Steele and Klotz finished fifth (3:18.87) in the 400-yard medley relay. A sixth-place finish (3:19.02) was turned in by Johnston, junior Connor Lohman (Prospect, Ky.), Springman and Nee in the same event.
The Bears return to the pool tomorrow in the second day of the Big Al Invite.
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