BALTIMORE, MD – Senior Kellen Roddy won the 500 Free to pace the Johns Hopkins men's swim team on day one of the Thomas Murphy Invitational. JHU, the only Division III team at the meet, sits in third place out of four teams with 515 points.
 
Hopkins kicked off the three-day meet with seventh and eighth-place finishes in the 200 Medley Relay. Sophomore Bryce Lloyd, senior Justin Limberg, sophomore Avery Clapp and freshman Adam Sandid took seventh with a time of 1:32.14. Senior Reef Ide, graduate student Ike Shirakata and sophomores Andrew Huang and Christan Mayr finished in eighth in 1:34.58.
 
Roddy then grabbed a win in the 500 Free as he beat the field with a time of 4:32.90. Sophomore Matthew Hartshorn placed seventh in the B Final with a time of 4:47.98. In the C Final, junior Daniel Byrnes placed second in 4:46.74.
 
In the 200 IM, junior Eric Ji placed ninth in the A Final as he finished in 1:54.27. Shirakata took third place in the B Final as he touched in 1:55.40. In the C Final, the Blue Jays took first, second and third. Lloyd led the way as he finished in 1:54.64. Huang followed in 1:56.34 and junior Joe Castagno clocked in at 1:56.52.
 
Sandid took seventh place in the B Final of the 50 Free as he finished in 21.40. Mayr finished in second place in the C Final with a time of 21.87. He beat Ide by just three-hundredths of a second. Hopkins wrapped up day one with a fifth-place finish in the 800 Free Relay. Ji, Byrnes, Roddy and Sandid clocked in at 6:56.54.
 
The Thomas Murphy Invitational continues on Saturday morning at 10:00 am with the prelims of the 100 Fly.