WASHINGTON, DC – Junior Bryce Lloyd swept the Backstroke events to lead Johns Hopkins in a dual meet at Georgetown. The Blue Jays won four events and grabbed three second place finishes in a 175-86 loss to the Hoyas.
 
Lloyd picked up his first win in the 100 Back as he clocked in with a time of 50.12 to win the race by nearly eight tenths of a second. In his third swim of the day, he completed his sweep of the Backstroke with a swim of 1:49.06. He won the race by 3.2 seconds and his time was just five-hundredths of a second off an NCAA B time.
 
Freshman Larkin Helman won the 500 Free, in his first swim in the event in college, with a time of 4:35.68. Junior Avery Clapp earned the fourth win for the Blue Jays as he beat the field in the 100 Fly by nearly one second. He touched the wall in 50.19 to grab the top spot. Clapp added a runner-up finish in the 200 Fly with a swim of 1:52.42. Sophomore Rad Couture followed in third place in 1:54.26.
 
Hopkins earned second-place finishes in the 200 Medley and 400 Free Relays. The team of Lloyd, freshman Jonathan Wang, Clapp and junior Christian Mayr took second in the 200 Medley with a time of 1:31.98. Graduate student Jay Heymann, sophomore Adam Sandid, Mayr and Clapp combined for a time of 3:08.50 for second place in the 400 Free Relay.
 
Freshman Jack Cornish turned in a season-best time of 9:44.43 to take third in the 1000 Free. Freshman Dylan Jewett did the same in the 100 Back, as he touched in 51.44. Wang grabbed a third-place finish in the 50 Free as he clocked in 21.51. Sandid then took third in the 100 Free with a time of 47.44. Senior Eric Ji took third place in the 200 Breast as he finished with 2:03.81.  
 
Hopkins returns to action at the Loyola H20unds Invitational November 22-24.