Dartmouth Picks up First Win of 2018-19, Defeats Bates

Friday, December 7

Lewiston, Maine

6:00 PM

Dartmouth College

143

Bates

Sophomore Gabriel Mathews

Photo by: Beverly Schaefer

Dartmouth Picks up First Win of 2018-19, Defeats Bates

12/7/2018 10:09:00 PM | Men's Swimming & Diving

Results

By: Charlotte Brackett

LEWISTON, Maine – The Dartmouth men's swimming and diving team had a 143-79 victory over Bates on Friday evening. The Big Green won all but two of the events throughout the meet, taking the top two spots in six of them.

Dartmouth opened the meet by finishing in first place in the 400-yard medley relay (3:30.67), breaking Bates' pool record at the same time. The team of Joe Moll, Brandon Liao, Connor LaMastra and Tang-e Tan left a second and a half between it and Bates in second.

Moll won the 200-yard freestyle (1:44.99) by almost two and a half seconds and, later on in the meet, placed first in the 500-yard freestyle (4:36.70) with a new Tarbell pool record. John Hall and Tan took the top two spots in the 50-yard freestyle, finishing with times of 21.51 and 22.07, respectively.

On the 1-meter diving board, Ray Neistat placed first (294.45) and was followed soon after by AJ Krok (271.42). Neistat also won on 3-meter (333.08), hitting the standard for the 2019 NCAA Zone Diving Championship and setting a new pool mark, while Krok was second (283.58).

LaMastra easily won the 200-yard IM (1:54.65), leaving a five-second gap between him and Jack Johnson in second and breaking the Tarbell pool record. The Big Green sophomore was back in the 200-yard fly, touching in 1:48.68 to pick up his second individual win of the day and break his second record. Hall was second (1:57.39) and Connor Richmond came in third (1:57.79).

In the 100-yard freestyle, Henry Patrick and Tan went 1-2 with times of 47.28 and 47.94, while Carter Jacobsen won the 200-yard backstroke (1:55.49), breaking the pool record. Richmond placed second in the 200-yard breast (2:11.30), touching just eight one-hundredths of a second behind Alex Bedard.

Dartmouth concluded the meet by taking second in the 200-yard freestyle relay (1:31.07). Composed of Jacobsen, Hugh McKenzie, Gabriel Mathews and Parker Herschberger, the relay touched half a second ahead of Bates' B relay.

The Big Green will have a month away from competition, returning on Jan. 4-5 against Penn and Yale.