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The Harvard men's swimming team ran its dual-meet win streak to 16 last night with an uninspired but nonetheless thorough handling of Brown at the Brown Swim Center, 79-34.

The Crimson coasted to victory by winning the first nine races and 11 of 13 overall, setting four meet records in the process. The rigors of Reading Period took their toll, though. Most of the times--excepting the records--were at best mediocre.

Sophomore PT boat Bobby Hackett once again led the Crimson effort, establishing meet records in the 1000-yd. freestyle (9:29.05) and the 100-yd. freestyle (46.94, a solid time for this point in the season) for an impressive double.

Brown star Chris Hugg--who saved face for the Bruins by winning the 500 free in 4:43.29 and anchoring the victorious freestyle relay team--stayed with Hackett for most of the 1000-yd. event, but in the end finished eight seconds off the pace.

Tim Maximoff dropped a second or two off his top performance of the year in the 200 individual medley, but he nonetheless managed to bring home the bacon for the Crimson with a meet-record time of 2:00.67.

Harvard's final meet record came from Dan Menichella, who churned out a 1:56.31 tow win the 200-yd. butterfly by nearly 10 seconds. Campari Knoeffler picked up a second for the Crimson in that event.

Pat Jakobsen turned in a respectable 2:16.38 in the 200-yd. breaststroke to add yet another event to the list of Harvard firsts on the night. He then teamed with Ron Raikula, co-captain Malcolm Cooper and Mike Coglin for a cruising nine-second victory in the 400-yd. medley relay (3:39.34).

The Crimson also logged solid but unimpressive victories from Coglin (1:46.17 in the 200 free), Cooper (21.93 in the 50 free) and Geoff Seelen (1:59.33 in the 200 backstroke).

Last, but definitely not least, superdivers Jamie Greacen and Steve Schramm kerplunked their way to one-two finishes in both diving events, Greacen taking the one-meter with 287.35 points and Schramm nabbing the three-meter with 309.

The Crimson will have one more meet--versus Dartmouth Saturday--before exams, after which they will resume the traditional battle for Eastern supremacy with Princeton February 3.

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