NEW YORK, NY – The Johns Hopkins men's swim team traveled to the Big Apple to take on TCNJ and host NYU Saturday afternoon. The Blue Jays beat the Lions but fell to the host Violets.
 
Hopkins opened the meet with a win and a fourth-place finish in the 200 Medley Relay. Senior Steven Rua, junior Justin Limberg, freshman Avery Clapp and senior Spencer Ryan earned the win with a swim of 1:34.00 and beat TCNJ by seven hundredths of a second. Freshman Bryce Floyd, sophomore Mitchell List, junior Reef Ide and freshman Christian Mayr finished in 1:35.92 for fourth place.
 
Junior Kellen Roddy continued his domination of the distance events with a win in the 1000 Free. He clocked in with a time of 9:27.81 to win by nearly 14 seconds. Sophomore Eric Ji followed in third place with a time of 9:49.23.
 
Lloyd led the Blue Jays in the 200 Free with a fifth-place finish and a 1:44.56. Sophomore Daniel Byrnes finished just two-tenths of a second later for sixth place. Clapp then took second in the 100 Back as he finished in 51.51, edging out NYU's Jaeden Yuburan by six-hundredths of a second.
 
The Blue Jays then went one-two-four in the 100 Breast. Senior Kyle Wu paced the field as he touched the wall in 56.29. Limberg finished in second in 57.96 while sophomore Joe Castagno took fourth in 59.10.
 
Sophomore Jonik Surprenant placed fifth in the 200 Fly (1:58.17), beating freshman Matthew Hartshorn by just one-hundredth of a second. Ryan then took second place in the 50 Free with a time of 21.41. Wu followed with a second-place finish in the 100 Free as he touched in 46.03. Clapp led JHU in the 200 Back with a fourth-place finish and a time of 1:53.31
 
Roddy picked up his second win of the afternoon as he took the top spot in the 500 Free with a swim of 4:36.42. Byrnes finished in fourth place in 4:46.22 and Surprenant placed sixth in 4:48.74. Ide was the top Blue Jay in the 100 Fly as he placed sixth in 52.34.
 
Rua followed with a third-place finish in the 200 IM as he finished in 1:55.46. Senior Brandon Stride swam a 1:57.87 to take fifth place. The Blue Jays wrapped up the meet with third and fifth-place finishes in the 400 Free Relay. The team of junior Jay Heymann, Ide, Lloyd and Wu swam a 3:09.05 to finish in third. Ji, Mayr, sophomore Nathan Jin and Ryan combined for a time of 3:12.87 to place fifth.
 
Hopkins wraps up the fall portion of its schedule in two weeks at the Denison Invitational. The Three-day meet kicks off on Thursday, December 1 in Granville, OH.