Bright and Stapleton had reason to be confident. Only hours before, Bright had set the team record for the 200-yd. backstroke—2:00.17—with Stapleton right behind.
Capturing 37 points between the two of them, Bright and Stapleton ensured that the Crimson would not be denied a spot in the top two yet again.
“We needed to get the adrenaline going,” Stapleton said. “We knew that there was a little bit of pressure to score early.”
With the points from sophomore Molly Brethauer’s fifth place finish, Harvard totaled 51 points in the race—28 more than the Bears—and reclaimed the lead and the momentum, never looking back.
—TIMOTHY J. McGINN
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