Males’s Swimming and Diving Sweeps Dartmouth, Cornell in Granite State

HANOVER, N.H. – Harvard Men’s Swimming and Diving stayed excellent on the season and opened its Ivy League slate with a pair of victories on Friday afternoon in The Granite State. The Crimson defeated the hosts, Dartmouth, 217-82, and took down Cornell, 215-85. With the 2 wins, Harvard improved to 3-0 (2-0 Ivy). The Big Green dropped to 0-4 (0-4 Ivy), whereas the Big Red moved to 1-1 (1-1 Ivy).

How it Happened

• Harvard opened the swimming occasions by capturing the primary two of the afternoon. Adriano Arioti, Joshua Chen, Sonny Wang and Marre Gattnar gained the 200 medley relay with a time of 1:27.23. William Mulgrew then gained the 1,000 free, finishing the race in 8:55.74, which was almost 5 seconds higher than runner-up and first-year classmate Pablo Martinez (9:00.64).
• After Cornell’s Pietro Ubertalli gained the 200 free by 0:00.02 over David Greeley (1:36.27), the Crimson rattled off 10 consecutive victories, with the primary two coming from half of its 200 medley relay. Arioti emerged victorious within the 100 again with a 47.68 efficiency and Chen secured the W within the 100 breast (pool-record 53.76), successful by a couple of second over Cornell’s Haihan Xu (54.78).
• The Crimson went 1-2 within the subsequent two occasions – the 200 fly and 50 free. David Schmitt posted a pool-record time of 1:44.14 to win the occasion, whereas teammate Ognjen Pilipovic got here in second with what would have been a pool document time of 1:45.37. Wang and Gattnar, in the meantime, took the highest two spots within the 50 free, posting occasions of 19.82 and 20.10, respectively.
• Raphael Tourette gained the 1-meter diving competitors with a rating of 348.60. The victory got here on the heels of a runner-up efficiency on the 3-meter board (333.55), which was the primary occasion of the day.
• Greeley, Arioti and Chen completed forward of the pack in every of their occasions because the afternoon turned to nighttime. Greeley gained the 100 free in 44.35, Arioti was first within the 200 again (1:44.17) and Chen outpaced the 200-breast discipline with a pool-record 1:57.65.
• First-years Martinez and Maro Miknic put the ending touches on Harvard’s 10-event successful streak as they captured the five hundred free and 100 fly, respectively. Martinez registered a facility-record 4:22.60, as did runner-up Pilipovic (4:24.48). Miknic adopted swimsuit with a pool-best 46.65, to steer a Harvard contingent that completed 1-2-3-4 (Miknic, Schmitt – 47.16, Wang – 47.31, Baffico – 48.00).
• Harvard put the ultimate touches on its second highway journey of the season with a win within the 200 free relay. Wang, Gattnar, Evan Croley and Greeley paced the sphere with a pool-record time of 1:19.04.

Up Next

Harvard returns to motion on Friday, Nov. 21, when it faces Columbia in New York City. The Ivy League meet is about for a 5 p.m. ET begin.