WASHINGTON, DC – Johns Hopkins grabbed four wins and 19 top three finishes in a dual meet loss at Georgetown Saturday afternoon. The host Hoyas, which included diving, topped the Blue Jays 189-111.
 
Hopkins opened and closed the meet with second-place finishes in the 200 Medley and 400 Free Relays. To open the meet, the team of Aden Li, Jonathan Wang, Kai Henrikson-Brandt and Michael Ivanov finished in 1:31.87, just 0.35 seconds out of first in the 200 Medley Relay. In the final event of the day, Matthew Brailita, Ken Ning, Ivanov and Li swam to a runner-up finish in the 400 Free Relay with a time of 3:05.24.
 
Li grabbed an individual win in the 100 Back, beating the field with a swim of 50.25 to win by 0.53 seconds. Ning just beat Georgetown's Holden Brown to the wall by one-hundredth of a second to win the 100 Free in 46.58. Two events later, Matthew Ko won the 200 Breast by nearly one and a half seconds as he touched in 2:03.74. Classmate Nico Aldana followed with a win in the 500 Free, beating the Hoyas' Gabe Gonda by nearly one second in 4:37.10.
 
Aldana also added a second-place finish in the 1000 Free as he touched in 9:29.47, with Josiah March taking third in 9:48.87. Ning placed third in the 200 Free with a time of 1:41.69, followed by Willy Thurk in fourth (1:42.38). Wang then took second in the 100 Breast as he clocked in at 57.47 with Ko placing fourth in 57.98.
 
Finn Nelson and Alessandro Pereira then went two-three in the 200 Fly, finishing in 1:53.10 and 1:54.06 respectively. Ivanov and Reid Brophy each touched in 21.26 to tie for second in the 50 Free. Li added a third-place finish in the 100 Fly in 51.00 and Ko took third in the 200 IM with a swim of 1:52.26.
 
Hopkins returns to action at Loyola's H2ounds Invitational on Friday, November 20.