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M. Swimming Torpedoes Navy

The Crimson finished another sweep in the top three spots of the 200-meter butterfly event, with freshman Ryan Egan winning at a time of 1:51.85. Oren and junior Jan Sibbersen finished second and third, respectively.

The only events in which the Crimson failed to take the top spot were the one and three-meter diving events, and the 100 and 200-breaststroke events.

In one-meter diving, sophomore Greg Walker finished in second place 29 points out of first, while freshman Erik Frost took third in the three-meter events, just 11 points behind the leader.

The Harvard breaststrokers had a rough time on Saturday. In the 100-meter event, "ironman" Wrenshall placed second and senior Matt Krna was third, but both were over four seconds behind Navy's Peter Fehring.

The 200-meter breaststroke was a bit closer as Fehring finished just a second ahead of Harvard freshman Donald Blanchard. Cadman finished in third.

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But Harvard did take the No. 1 result in both of the relay events on Saturday.

In the 200-meter freestyle relay, the Harvard team of Samuel, Kurmakov, Rosen and Waters won the race with a time of 1:23.94.

The Crimson squad of Wriede, Rosen, Im and Fritscsh squeaked out the 200-meter medley relay victory in 1:34.30, winning by just 18-hundredths of a second.

All in all, the meet was a sound success for Harvard, as it devastated an inferior Navy team. The Crimson hopes to build on the victory and now looks toward Brown.

"We definitely want to build on this meet as we head into the Brown meet," Wriede said. "We don't think that they can beat us, but they are definitely a much improved team from last year."

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