The Basics
• Scores:
Johns Hopkins-159, Worcester Polytechnic Institute-66
Johns Hopkins-174, Swarthmore-49
Johns Hopkins-155, Rowan-68
• Location: New Providence, NJ • Berkeley Aquatic Club
• The Short Story: The fifth-ranked Johns Hopkins men's swimming team won 11 events and posted five NCAA B times en route to wins over Swarthmore, WPI and 17^th-ranked Rowan Saturday afternoon.
 
Quoting Coach Armstrong
• "As we head down the home stretch, it was great to pick up three big team wins. The team also stepped up with several stellar individual swims that show us the training over the past several weeks is really paying off."
 
Top Finishers
• Hopkins opened the day with second and third-place finishes in the 200 Medley Relay. Sophomores Dylan Wachenfeld, Maxwell Chen and Jeff Vitek and freshman Spencer Ryan took second with a 1:34.46. Following closely in third were juniors Matt McGough, Noah Frassrand and Nat Davenport and freshman Kyle Wu with a time of 1:34.66.
• Junior CJ Arena then beat the field in the 1650 Free with an NCAA B time of 15:59.03. Freshman Alec Caswell touched in 16:32.97 for second place.
• Sophomore Collin Hughes picked up the first of his two wins by taking the top spot in the 200 Free, clocking in at 1:41.91. Freshman Steven Rua finished in third place as he touched in 1:44.25.
• Chen then edged out WPI's Sidney Williams by three-hundredths of a second for the win (51.88).
• The Blue Jays followed with a one-two-four finish in the 100 Breast. Freshman Tristan Lin led the way with an NCAA B time of 56.05 for the first of his two wins. Classmate Kyle Wu finished in 58.06 for second, while senior Jasper Van Cauwelaert finished fourth in 1:00.03.
• Hopkins turned the same trick in the 200 Fly, led by Vitek with an NCAA B time of 1:49.88. Wachenfeld placed second in 1:53.74 and senior Matthew Garza placed fourth in 1:56.08.
• Davenport then took second in the 50 Free as he clocked in at 21.27, followed by sophomore Noah Corbitt in third (21.66). Wu placed second in the 100 Free with a time of 47.18 while Vitek placed third in 47.46.
• McGough and Corbitt then went one-two in the 200 Back, touching in 1:53.56 and 1:53.86, respectively.
• Freshman Brandon Stride cruised to a win in the 200 Breast, clocking in with an NCAA B time of 2:03.37 to beat the field by more than nine seconds.
• JHU then swept the top three spots in the 500, led by Hughes' time of 4:40.70. Wachenfeld placed second in 4:42.06 and sophomore Mitchell Simmons took third in 4:43.26.
• Davenport grabbed a win in the 100 Fly, as he finished in 50.08. Chen followed in third place with a time of 51.64.
• The Blue Jays closed out the individual portion of the meet by sweeping the top four spots in the 200 IM. Lin led the way with an NCAA B time of 1:50.19. Rua placed second in 1:54.73, followed by Van Cauwelaert (1:55.93) and Stride (1:57.47).
• Hopkins ended the meet with a first and third-place finish in the 200 Free Relay. Chen, Wu, Ryan and Davenport grabbed the win with a time of 1:23.74. McGough, Hughes, Corbitt and Vitek finished in third place in 1:26.30.
 
Up Next
• Hopkins returns to the pool on Saturday, February 1 as the Blue Jays travel to Pittsburgh to take on 10^th-ranked Carnegie Mellon.