Dartmouth Men's Swimming and Diving Falls in Meet with Columbia

Saturday, February 16

New York, N.Y.

4:00 p.m.

Dartmouth College

123

173

Columbia

Dartmouth Men's Swimming and Diving Falls in Meet with Columbia

2/16/2008 12:00:00 AM | Men's Swimming & Diving

By: Dartmouth

Complete Results

NEW YORK, N.Y. ? The Dartmouth men's swimming and diving team challenged throughout its meet with Columbia, but fell, 173-123, to the Lions in its final regular-season meet.

Junior Kevin Ellis (Centennial, Colo.) led the way for the Big Green with wins in two events. Ellis took the 1000 yard freestyle with a season-best time of 9:40.00, while classmate Porter Diehl (West Windsor, N.J.) came in second with his season-best time of 9:41.67. Ellis also captured the 500 yard freestyle, swimming to a time of 4:41.30.

Junior Andrew Ballentine (Pendleton, Ind.) earned a big win in the 200 yard individual medley with a time of 2:00.16 and senior Gordon Russell (Glen Ellyn, Ill.) took second in the 200 yard freestyle with a time of 1:44.19 and first in the 200 backstroke with a time of 1:52.48.

Dartmouth dominated in diving action, going 1-2-3 in the 3-meter dive with senior Andrew Berry (Middleton, Wis.) taking the top spot with a score of 292.35. Freshman Michael Brown (Newton, Mass.) and senior Dan Weisman (Newton, Mass.) took second and third, respectively. Brown scored a 280.13, while Weisman earned third with a score of 255.83.