Men’s Swimming & Diving Falls to Harvard and Penn

Saturday, January 12

Cambridge, MA

12:00 PM

Brown University

Harvard

Men’s Swimming & Diving Falls to Harvard and Penn

1/12/2019 7:24:00 PM | Men's Swimming & Diving

Results

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Brown men's swimming & diving team was defeated by Penn, 174.50-125.50, and fell to Harvard, 216.50-83.50, in an Ivy League tri-meet at Blodgett Pool on Saturday.

"Our men's team had a very solid meet this weekend against both Harvard and Penn," said head coach Chris Ip. "This was our first Ivy meet of the 2018-19 season, and we saw a little bit of rust on our race strategies and techniques. But, we were pleasantly surprised by how quickly our large freshman class have adapted to collegiate competition. We are looking forward to continuing to watch this team gel as we prepare for upcoming meets against Columbia and Cornell."

The 200 medley relay team of junior Joon Sung (Los Angeles, Calif.), freshman Daniel Alber (Newton, Mass.), senior Nicholas Brown (Sudbury, Mass.) and junior Cody Cline (Wellington, Fla.) took third overall to start the meet (1:30.31). The time was faster than every dual-meet 200 medley relays from the past two seasons.

Freshman Nico Ortega (Caracas, Venezuela/Westport, Conn.) secured third against Penn in the 1000 freestyle (9.45.15).

Winning the 200 freestyle against Penn and taking third against Harvard was sophomore Michael Lincoln (Palo Alto, Calif.) in 1:39.78. Cline was sixth overall (1:41.43) and third against Penn while freshman Lucas Hess (Salt Lake City, Utah) followed up in fourth against Penn (1:42.54).

N. Brown finished fifth overall in the 100 backstroke (50.95), but was second against Penn. Junior Coley Sullivan (Louisville, Ky.) (51.05) and freshman I.I. Qiao (Naperville, Ill.) (51.51) took third and fourth in the event against the Quakers, finishing seventh and eighth overall, respectively. N. Brown also won the 200 backstroke against Penn in 1:48.37, taking second overall, with Sullivan again following behind him, this time in fourth overall (1:51.17), and in third against both Harvard and Penn.

Sung was able to finish second against Harvard and Penn, but third overall, in the 200 butterfly with a time of 1:49.43.

Freshman Ben Hayes (River Hills, Wis.) (1:50.74) and senior Matt Orringer (Ann Arbor, Mich.) (1:51.66) finished fifth and sixth overall, placing third and fourth against Penn.

Cline took second against Harvard and tied for first with Penn in the 50 freestyle, coming in at 20.49. Junior Alex Smilenov (Katy, Texas) took fourth overall in 20.80, finishing third in the meet against both Harvard and Penn. Cline also finished third overall in the 100 freestyle (45.17), with Smilenov in fifth overall (45.89), and good enough for second and third versus Penn.

Hayes and senior Carson Christuk (Newbury, Mass.) took fourth and sixth overall in the 200 breaststroke with times of 2:05.57 and 2:07.14, respectively. Hayes finished second in the event against Harvard, with Christuk in third against the Crimson.

Sung (49.13) and Qiao (50.14) took third and fifth overall in the 100 butterfly, finishing 2-3 against Penn and 2-4 against Harvard.

On the boards, junior William McNelis (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.) led the way for the Bears on both boards, earning second against Penn on the 3M with a mark of 226.30 and third on the 1M with a score of 274.10. Freshman Trevor Labuda (Los Altos, Calif.) finished fifth on the 3M (222.0).

The final 400 freestyle relay team of Cline, Sullivan, Hess and Smilenov saw the Bears beat the Quakers and take second to the Crimson to close out the meet with a time of 3:01.66.

The Bears next compete at Columbia on Saturday, Jan. 19 at noon.