PRINCETON – Princeton absolutely dominated night two at the Ivy League Men’s Championships, pushing their lead to more than 100 points against Harvard, 488-385.
Princeton kicked off what was a big night of scoring for them with a conference record and NCAA A cut in the 200-yard free relay.
Harrison Wagner (19.42), Connor Maher (19.27), Julian Mackrel (19.64) and Sandy Bole (19.02) finished with a time of 1:17.35, clearing Princeton’s 2009 meet, conference and pool record of 1:17.93.
Harvard’s Paul O’Hara (19.90), Steven Tan (19.84), Max Yakubovich (19.90) and Griffin Schumacher (19.12) finished second in 1:18.76 with Columbia’s David Jakl (19.74), Alex Ngan (19.32), Stanley Wong (19.98) and Joe Shepley (19.84) earning third in 1:18.88.
Penn’s Chris Swanson took down the meet record in the 500-yard free with a time of 4:17.53. The effort surpassed the meet and pool record of 4:18.04 set by Princeton’s Travis McNamara back in 2009.
Princeton’s Samuel Smiddy (4:18.21) and Yale’s Brian Hogan (4:19.78) took second and third. Yale also has Kei Hyogo (4:19.84) and Rob Harder (4:21.53) earn fourth and fifth for big points for the Yale squad.
Princeton’s Teo D’Alessandro then won the men’s 200-yard IM with a time of 1:44.94, while Harvard’s Christian Yeager finished second in 1:45.61.
Princeton had a huge event with Marco Bove (1:45.76), Connor Maher (1:45.98) and Byron Sanborn (1:46.11) also claiming third through fifth.
Princeton kept on rolling as Harrison Wagner clocked a 19.39 to win the men’s 50-yard free. Penn’s Eric Schultz (19.54) and Yale’s Aaron Greenberg (19.84) claimed second and third.
Princeton had two other A finalists with Sandy Bole (19.85) and Ben Schafer (20.17) also scoring big final points.
In the diving break, Harvard’s Michael Mosca picked up the win with 368.05 points. Princeton’s Nathan Makarewicz finished second with 342.65 points, while Columbia’s Jayden Pantel snared third with 328.80 points.
Princeton closed out a huge day as Michael Strand (46.70), Jack Pohlmann (52.63), Corey Okubo (47.61) and Harrison Wagner (42.62) won the 400-yard medley relay in 3:09.56.
Penn (3:11.82) and Harvard (3:12.44) went 2-3 in the final relay of the night.
Team Scores
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