Big Green Swimming and Diving Takes on Yale and Penn

Saturday, January 10

Hanover, N.H.

10:00 AM

Dartmouth College

216

YALE

Big Green Swimming and Diving Takes on Yale and Penn

1/10/2015 6:12:00 PM | Men's Swimming & Diving

By: Dartmouth

HANOVER, N.H. – The Dartmouth men's swimming and diving hosted its first meet of the 2014-15 season on Saturday, taking on Ivy League rivals Yale and Penn in Karl Michael Pool. The Green were defeated by Yale, 216-84, and against Penn, things were close, but Dartmouth ultimately fell by a score of 169-130.

Dartmouth started the morning off right by taking the top two spots on the 1-meter diving board. Senior Ryan Shelley placed first with a score of 295.45, while junior Brett Gillis finished right behind him with 292.45. Freshman Taylor Clough took fourth in 254.20. It was Gillis who was victorious on the 3-meter board, taking the top spot with a score of 344.85. Clough was second with a 290.80 and Shelley came in fourth place with 271.15.

The 200-yard medley A relay finished in third place with a time of 1:32.25, touching just over a second behind Yale in first. Made up of juniors James Verhagen and Aaron Athanas, sophomore David Harmon and senior Ian Woon, the Big Green completed the event a second and a half ahead of Penn's relay. The Dartmouth B and C relays were seventh and eighth with times of 1:37.26 and 1:39.14, respectively.

Freshmen Zack Browne and Bruno Korbar finished highest for the Green in the 1,000-yard freestyle, coming into the wall just over two seconds apart in eighth and ninth place, with Browne touching first with a 9:43.00 and Korbar clocking a 9:45.86. It was the freshmen that performed well in the 200-yard freestyle, also. Misha Tovmashenko was third in 1:41.38, touching just two-tenths of a second behind Yale's Jonathan Rutter, while Tony Shen followed directly after Tovmashenko in fourth with a 1:41.51.

After a strong showing in the medley relay, Verhagen and Athanas fared just as well in the 100-yard backstroke, finishing half a second apart to take second and third. Verhagen placed highest with a 50.29, missing out on first by three quarters of a second, while Athanas was third in 50.79. In the 200-yard backstroke, Verhagen touched in third in 1:51.00 and Athanas came in sixth with a 1:53.40. Athanas went on to take third in the 200-yard IM in 1:53.56 and was followed two seconds later by freshman Henry Senkfor in fifth with a 1:55.70.

In the 100-yard breaststroke, seniors Jay Schulte and Konrad Von Moltke finished in eighth and ninth with times of 59.16 and 1:00.06, respectively. It was a similar story in the 200-yard breaststroke; Schulte was ninth in 2:08.92 and Von Moltke took 10th with a time of 2:10.27.

Harmon and Browne finished less than two-tenths of a second apart in the 200-yard butterfly, with Harmon taking seventh in 1:55.80 and Browne touching in eighth place with a 1:55.98. Woon, Tovmashenko and junior Daniel Whitcomb competed in the 50-yard freestyle, touching just a tenth of a second apart. Woon placed highest in eighth with a 21.54, Tovmashenko came in ninth in 21.60 and Whitcomb was 10th with a time of 21.64.

Woon and Tovmashenko returned to action in the 100-yard freestyle later in the day. Woon finished in fifth place in 46.69 and Tovmashenko was seventh in 46.82. In the 500-yard freestyle, Korbar came in eighth with a 4:44.64, while junior Logan Briggs was 10th with his time of 4:48.09, Shen was 11th with a 4:48.77 and sophomore Jack Long placed 12th in 4:49.40. In the 100-yard butterfly, Harmon took seventh with a 51.40 and was followed soon after by Verhagen in eighth with a time of 52.42.

To end the meet, the Dartmouth 400-yard freestyle A relay finished in second place with a time of 3:07.11. The relay, which was composed of Shen, Tovmashenko, Whitcomb and Woon, touched the wall over two seconds ahead of Penn.

The Green and White will return to action in just under two weeks when it hosts the two-day Dartmouth Invite on Jan. 23-24 at the Upper Valley Aquatic Center in White River Junction, Vermont.