WASHINGTON, DC – Freshman Melissa Er grabbed two wins and Johns Hopkins added eight second place finishes in a dual meet at Georgetown Saturday. The host Hoyas earned the team win, 169-91.
 
Er earned the first of her two wins in her first swim of the day. She turned in a season-best swim of 1:53.03 to win the 200 Free. She made it two-for-two in her next swim as she beat eh field in the 100 Free with a time of 52.45, winning by nearly four-tenths of a second over sophomore Elizabeth Cohen, who touched in 52.82.
 
Hopkins took second-place in the 200 Medley and 400 Free Relays to book-end the meet. Freshman Jaya Veerapaneni, senior Michelle Liu, freshman Kennedy Lee and Cohen finished in 1:44.76 in the 200 Medley Relay. Veerapaneni, Cohen, Er and Liu then closed the meet with a time of 3:29.18 in the 400 Medley Relay. The quartet's time was just nine-hundredths of a second off an NCAA B time.
 
In the first individual swim of the day, senior Meg Susil placed second in the 1000 Free as she clocked in at 10:29.19. Veerapaneni then took second in the 100 Back with a season-best time of 56.98. Senior Taylor Rohovit finished in 1:05.67 to take second in the 100 Breast. Graduate student Nyah Stahl was the runner-up in the 200 Back with a swim of 2:03.89. Junior Rachel Davis then grabbed second in the 400 IM as she touched in 4:31.99.
 
Hopkins returns to the pool in two weeks for the H20unds Invitational at nearby Loyola. The meet is slated to take place over three days, November 22-24.