The Basics
• Scores: #5 Johns Hopkins-135, #10 Carnegie Mellon-127
• Location: Pittsburgh, PA • CMU Swimming & Diving Pool
• The Short Story: The Johns Hopkins men's swim team won the final five individual events to rally for a 135-127 win over host and 10^th-ranked Carnegie Mellon Saturday afternoon.
 
Quoting Coach Armstrong
• "That was a great meet! It's so rare that we get to swim a high stakes D3 dual meet. It was also a long day of travel and we've been dealing with a lot of sick swimmers, so it was exciting to see the team rise up to the occasion and come home with the win!"
 
Top Finishers
• Hopkins took second and fourth in the first event of the day – the 200 Medley Relay. Sophomores Dylan Wachenfeld, Maxwell Chen and Jeff Vitek and junior Nat Davenport finished in 1:32.62 for second place. The team of junior Matt McGough, freshman Kyle Wu, Tristan Lin and Spencer Ryan clocked in at 1:35.29.
• Sophomore Mitchell Simmons then placed second in the 1000 Free as he touched in 9:51.32. Freshman Alec Caswell followed in third place with a time of 9:59.33.
• Sophomore Noah Corbitt earned the Blue Jays' first win of the day by clocking in at 1:40.92 to win the 200 Free. McGough followed with a second-place finish in the 100 Back in 52.21.
• Chen grabbed an NCAA B time and a win in the 100 Breast as he touched in 55.66. Wu then placed fourth as he finished in 58.05.
• Vitek turned the same trick when he won the 200 Fly by more than 1.4 seconds as he touched in 1:50.63.
• The Blue Jays then went one-three-four in the 50 Free, led by Davenport's winning time of 21.25. Lin touched in 21.37 for third place and sophomore Collin Hughes clocked in at 21.80.
• Davenport was the top Blue Jay in the 100 Free with a time of 47.59.
• Trailing 84-66, the comeback began with the 200 Back. Wachenfeld won the event with an NCAA B time of 1:49.82. Caswell placed third with a time of 1:57.60 as the Jays trimmed the deficit to 13 points.'
• Hopkins then took the top two spots and three of the top four in the 200 Breast to pull within two points of Carnegie Mellon. Lin grabbed the win as he touched in an NCAA B time of 2:03.71. Chen followed in 2:04.06, also a B time. Freshman Brandon Stride then took fourth place in 2:07.36.
• The Blue Jays grabbed their first lead of the meet with first, third and fifth-place finishes in the 500 Free. Corbitt earned the win as he clocked in at 4:36.81, while Simmons took third in 4:41.99. Wu finished in fifth with a time of 4:42.66.
• Vitek followed with a win in the 100 Fly, beating the field with a time of 49.91. McGough then won the 400 IM when he touched in 4:05.18. Wachenfeld placed third with a time of 4:08.79.
• Hopkins secured the win with second and third-place finishes in the 200 Free Relay, the final event of the night. The team of Davenport, Lin, Chen and Vitek finished in second with a time of 1:23.79. Ryan, Simmons, Caswell and senior Jasper Van Cauwelaert took third in 1:25.07.
 
Up Next
• Hopkins is back in action at the Ohio State Winter Invitational February 14-16 in Columbus, OH.