The Basics
• Scores:
Johns Hopkins-140, Delaware-139
Johns Hopkins-151, UMBC-142
• Location: Newark, DE • Rawstrom Natatorium
• The Short Story: The Johns Hopkins women's swimming team won eight events en route to a sweep of UMBC and host Delaware Saturday afternoon.
 
Quoting Coach Armstrong
• "We are very impressed with the effort the team put forth this weekend. It was a grueling early season test, but the team's enthusiasm was obvious, to walk away with some wins is icing on the cake."
 
Top Finishers
• Hopkins opened the day with a win in the 400 Medley Relay. Sophomore Sydney Okubo, senior Sonia Lin, sophomore Rebecca Ssengonzi and senior Kiki Petersen won by more than three seconds with a 3:51.56. The team of freshmen Renee Liu, Cali Wilson and Emerson Davis and sophomore Sophia Girgenti placed fifth in 3:59.72.
• The Blue Jays then took third and sixth in the 1000 Free. Junior Emma McElrath clocked in at 10:53.01 with freshman Rayna Saldanha finishing in 11:03.67.
• Senior Michelle Wang followed with a second-place finish in the 200 Free with a time of 1:54.19. Sophomore Elaine Lipkin placed fourth in 1:55.86.
• Liu grabbed the top spot in the 100 Back as she touched the wall in 58.03. Freshman Cecilia Cortez followed in fifth place in 1:00.40.
• Lin made it two in a row for the Jays as she beat the field with a time of 1:06.58 in the 100 Breast. Davis then took third place in the 200 Fly in 2:07.82 with Ssengonzi finishing in fifth (2:09.73).
• Sophomore Alicea-Jorgensen earned touched first in the 50 Free in 24.44. Junior Mikayla Bisignani followed in fourth place in 25.01.
• After the diving break, Petersen grabbed a win in the 100 Free as she clocked in at 51.75. Alicea-Jorgensen finished in fourth place with a 53.51.
• Hopkins then took three of the top five spots in the 200 Back. Wang led the way with a winning time of 2:04.48, with Liu placing second in 2:04.83. McElrath finished in fifth in 2:08.60.
• Lin followed with a second-place finish in the 200 Breast with a time of 2:25.14. Lipkin then cruised to a four-second win in the 500 Free, touching in 5:07.47.
• Ssengonzi placed third in the 100 Fly (58.14) while Cortez finished in fifth place (59.71). Okubo then took third place in the 200 IM (2:08.72), missing second by just five-hundredths of a second, in the final individual event of the day.
• Hopkins wrapped up the meet with first and fifth-place finishes in the 400 Free Relay to secure the two victories. Petersen, Alicea-Jorgensen, Girgenti and Wang won the relay in 3:30.22, beating the team from Delaware by more than three and a half seconds. Liu, junior Carmela Irato, Lin and Bisignani combined for a 3:39.45.
 
What it Means
• All four of Hopkins' wins this season have come against Division I opponents.
• This is Hopkins' first win over Delaware since 1978 and just the second ever. The Blue Hens had won the last 11 meetings. This is JHU's first win versus UMBC since 2002 and just the fourth all-time. The Retrievers had won four straight in the series.
 
Up Next
• Hopkins returns to the pool in two weeks at the Thomas Murphy Invitational at nearby Loyola. The meet is scheduled to begin at 5:00 pm on Friday, November 1.