Big Green Drops Season Opener to Harvard and Cornell

Saturday, November 15

Cambridge, Mass.

11:00 AM

Dartmouth College

Cornell

Big Green Drops Season Opener to Harvard and Cornell

11/15/2014 4:32:00 PM | Men's Swimming & Diving

By: Dartmouth

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – At its first meet of the 2014-15 season on Saturday, the Dartmouth men's swimming and diving team fell to Harvard and Cornell in a tri-Ivy meet at the Crimson's Blodgett Pool. The Big Green fell to Harvard by a score of 246-54 and Cornell, 213-87.

Freshman Tony Shen placed highest of all Dartmouth swimmers, coming in second place in the 200 free with a time of 1:40.12. He also finished 11th in the 50-yard freestyle (22.19) and 10th in the 100-yard freestyle (47.02).

In the 200-yard medley relay, the Dartmouth A relay, which was made up of junior James Verhagen, senior Jay Schulte, sophomore David Harmon and senior Ian Woon placed seventh with a time of 1:33.35. Just three second separated the first seven teams. The Big Green B and C relays touched in ninth and 10th with times of 1:35.92 and 1:38.43, respectively.

In their first collegiate swim meet, freshmen Zack Browne and Bruno Korbar placed sixth and eighth in the 1,000-yard free with times of 9:52.02 and 9:57.38. Verhagen took fourth in the 100-yard backstroke in 51.22, out touching a swimmer from Harvard by over half a second. In the 100 free, freshman Misha Tovmashenko touched in seventh with a time of 46.58, while Woon and Shen came in ninth in 46.95.

On the 3-meter diving board, junior Brett Gillis fared well with a third-place finish, scoring 297.85 points. Competing alongside Gillis, senior Ryan Shelley took fifth with a score of 293.60. It was Shelley who placed highest of the Big Green divers on the 1-meter board, taking third with a score of 305.30. Gillis finished directly behind him in fourth place with a 301.55.

Four Dartmouth swimmers touched one after the other in the 100-yard breaststroke to take eighth through 11^th place. Sophomore Timo Vaimann led the way (58.71) and was followed soon after by Schulte (59.59) and fellow senior Konrad von Moltke (1:00.48). Freshman Brett Seeley-Hacker touched next in 1:04.15.

Those four Big Green swimmers competed in the 200-yard breaststroke a few events later, touching all in a row, once again. Schulte finished highest in ninth (2:08.61), Vaimann and Von Moltke were 10th (2:09.80) and 11th (2:12.79), and Seeley-Hacker placed 12th (2:19.82).

Junior Logan Briggs was the first Big Green swimmer to touch in the 500-yard freestyle, coming in ninth place with a 4:43.88 and leading the way for three of his teammates. Korbar placed 10th (4:49.43), sophomore Joby Bernstein was 11th (4:53.45) and classmate Jack Long touched in 12th (4:54.23). In the 100-yard butterfly, Harmon took sixth place in 49.74.

In the final event of the day, the 400-yard freestyle relay, the Dartmouth A relay placed fifth in 3:07.89. Made up of Shen, Tovmashenko, freshman Brendan Boval and Harmon, the relay out touched Cornell by over a second. The Big Green's B relay came in seventh in 3:16.46 and the C relay placed eighth in 3:18.88.

Dartmouth will return to action on Friday, Dec. 5, when it travels to Providence, Rhode Island to face host Brown and Princeton in the three-day Brown Invite.