BALTIMORE, MD – Junior Kristin Cornish grabbed her second win of the weekend on the third and final day of the Thomas Murphy Invitational Sunday at Loyola. The Blue Jays, the only Division III team competing at the meet, finished in fourth place with 1519 points.
 
Cornish and freshman Julia Tuinman kicked off the final session by grabbing first and third for the Blue Jays in the 1650 Free. Cornish clocked in with a winning time of 16:55.03 and beat Towson's Bridget Thomas by just eight-hundredths of a second. Tuinman then took third place with a time of 17:18.50. Both Cornish and Tuinman's times are NCAA B times.
 
Senior Makenzie Higgins followed with a seventh-place finish in the A Final of the 200 Back in 2:04.87. Freshman Kimberly Lan finished in fifth in the B Final with a time of 2:10.11, while senior Caroline Storen placed sixth in 2:11.54.
 
Sophomore Alex Watson swam to a sixth-place finish in the A Final of the 100 Free with a time of 52.54. Sophomore Claire Han finished in eighth place in 53.13. Freshman Elizabeth Cohen placed second in the B Final in 53.20. Sophomore Alia Basler won the C Final with a finals time of 53.43. In the 200 Breast, junior Taylor Rohovit placed fifth in the A Final with a time of 2:21.35. Junior Michelle Liu finished in eighth (2:22.85) and sophomore Rachel Davis placed ninth (2:24.33). Sophomore Katherine Chelus won the B Final in 2:25.43.
 
Freshman Kate Petitt took eighth place in the A Final of the 200 Fly as she touched in 2:10.35. Freshman Ayden Min took second in the B Final with a time of 2:12.96.
 
Hopkins finished up the weekend with second and third place finishes in the 400 Free Relay. Lan, Basler, Rohovit and Tuinman turned in a time of 3:30.04. Finishing in third place were Watson, Han, Cohen and Higgins with a time of 3:30.19.
 
Hopkins returns to action in two weeks when the Blue Jays host the Georgetown Hoyas on Saturday, November 11.