Big Green Swimming Wraps up Final Day at Brown

Sunday, December 7

Providence, R.I.

11:00 AM

Dartmouth College

Day Three

Big Green Swimming Wraps up Final Day at Brown

12/7/2014 8:22:00 PM | Men's Swimming & Diving

By: Dartmouth

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Dartmouth men's swimming and diving team wrapped up competition at the Brown Invitational on Sunday evening with a number of strong performances. After three days of action, the Big Green finished in fourth place with a score of 666, finishing over 200 points ahead of Rider in fifth with 434 points. Yale was first with 1,167 points.

In the first individual event of the night, freshman Bruno Korbar placed eighth in the 1,650-yard freestyle with a time of 16:03.72, dropping over 40 seconds off his seedtime. Sophomore Joby Bernstein placed 12th with a 16:16.48 and classmate Jack Long was 18th in 16:29.72.

After winning the 100 back yesterday, junior James Verhagen returned to the water to take second in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 1:45.37, touching just three-tenths of a second behind Princeton's Corey Okubo, who finished first with a 1:45.01. Classmate Aaron Athanas was fourth in 1:47.90. Sophomore David Harmon finished in fifth place in the 200-yard butterfly with a 1:48.65, while sophomore Tate Ramsden was 12th in 1:52.99 and freshman Zack Browne came in 14th with a time of 1:54.40.

In the 100-yard freestyle, freshmen Misha Tovmashenko and Tony Shen finished in 12th and 13th with times of 46.25 and 46.30, respectively. Classmate Brandon Boval was 20th with a time of 46.88. Seniors Jay Schulte and Konrad von Moltke competed in the 200-yard breaststroke, finishing in third and fifth with times of 2:03.38 and 2:05.54.

To end the day, the Dartmouth 400-yard freestyle A relay touched in fifth place with a time of 3:04.23. Made up of Athanas, Boval, Long and senior Ian Woon, the relay out-touched Rider's A relay by half a second. The Big Green C relay was ninth with a 3:08.69.

After spending the next two weeks in Hawaii on their training trip, the Green will return to action on Saturday, Jan. 10 when they host Yale and Penn in an Ivy League tri-meet.