BALTIMORE, MD – The Johns Hopkins men's swim team picked up 369 points and sits in second place after day one of the Thomas Murphy Invitational. Host Loyola is in first place with 426 points and Towson is in third with 352 points.
 
Hopkins kicked off the first evening session with fourth and fifth-place finishes in the 200 Medley Relay. Seniors Steven Rua, Spencer Ryan and freshmen Avery Clapp and Christian Mayr took third with a time of 1:31.96. Freshman Bryce Lloyd, juniors Justin Limberg and Reef Ide and freshman Shawn Zhou placed fifth in 1:33.26
 
Junior Kellen Roddy then took second place, and posted an NCAA B time, as he finished in 4:30.94. Sophomore Eric Ji placed third with a career-best time of 4:36.84 and classmate Daniel Byrnes finished in fifth in 4:39.15. Senior Kyle Wu followed with a win, and an NCAA B time, in the 200 IM. He beat the field to the wall with a time of 1:50.51. Rua finished in sixth with a time of 1:52.92. Lloyd and sophomore Joe Castagno tied for seventh in 1:53.04.
 
Clapp placed fifth in the 50 Free as he finished in 21.00. Mayr took eighth place with a time of 21.42 and Ryan followed just four-hundredths of a second later for ninth place. The Blue Jays wrapped up day one with third and fifth-place finishes in the 800 Free Relay. Wu, Roddy, Ji and Byrnes combined for a time of 1:42.68 to take third. Lloyd, senior Alec Caswell, sophomore Jonik Surprenant and junior Jay Heymann finished in 6:58.66.
 
Hopkins is right back at it on Saturday morning with the prelims of the 100 Fly, beginning at 10:00 am.