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The top Penn team touched in next at 1:47.82.

Penn next took the top spots in the 1000-yard freestyle, 200-yard freestyle, 100-yard backstroke and the 100-yard breaststroke, but Harvard swimmers placed just behind their Quaker counterparts.

Freshman Emily Stapleton touched in at 59.04 in the 100-yard backstroke, good for second place behind Penn’s Katie Frazee.

The points continued to pile up as Kristic and Rachael O’Beirne next went two-three in the 100-yard breaststroke. Kristic’s time of 1:05.25 was just one hundreth of a second short of Penn’s Jennifer Block. O’Beirne’s time was just .17 seconds off the winning time.

Sophomore Kate Nadeau grabbed second in the 200-yard butterfly in a time of 2:04.86.

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McDougall got the Crimson’s first win in an individual event when she clocked in at 23.76 in the 50-yard freestyle.

After sophomore Renee Paradise and freshman Anne Osmun went two-three on the one-meter board, McDougall was back in the water to take second in the 100-yard freestyle with a time 51.76.

Penn took two of the next three events, but Stapleton and sophomore Abbie Davies went two-three in the 200-yard backstroke.

O’Beirne continued to be a big contributor to the Crimson’s bottom line. She took first in the 200-yard breaststroke.

With the the Crimson and the Quakers trading points, Harvard needed a breakthrough performance. The 100-yard butterfly would be just what the team needed. Fraser took first in 57.56 followed directly by Bates in 58.39.

“The 100 fly was a really big event for us,” McDougal said. “We got first and second in pretty quick times, so that was exciting.”

While each win adds points to the team’s final standing, the win was espcially sweet for Fraser.

“I knew I had a pretty good race, I felt strong throughout it,” she said. “I was very determined because I was out last season with a shoulder injury. It was an overall sense of determination.”

Columbia took first on the 3-meter board, but Harvard again was able to place a diver in th top three, as Osmun took second.

Sophomore Katie Wilbur took first in the 400-yard individual medley, the day’s last individual event, in a time of 4:29.90.

Freshman Molly Ward, Nadeau, McDougall and Fraser took second behind a Penn team in the day’s last event, the 400-yard freestyle relay.

The Crimson now has nearly a month off from competition, but will be training for much of the holiday break. The swimmers travel to the Bahamas and the divers are off to sunny Acapulco for over a week of intense practice.

“We’re going to the Bahamas for a training trip, so it will be a good opportunity to train hard and get good, hard work in,” McDougall said. “Training trips prove to be a time when the team gells and the new freshmen become more integrated into the mix.”

The Crimson is next in action on Jan. 5 when it travels to Pittsburgh.

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