The Navy men's swimming and diving team recorded 14 event victories on its way to posting a 231-69 victory over Army, Thursday night in Lejeune Hall. The result marked the 17th straight victory in the series by the Midshipmen. The Navy women totaled 13 victories on the day to post a 206-94 victory over Army, Thursday afternoon in Lejeune Hall. The win was Navy's 19th in a row over the Black Knights.

"Both teams were swimming very well coming into tonight," said Navy men's head coach Bill Roberts. "Because of that, we knew the type of effort we would need to put forth in order to reach the goals we had set for ourselves."

The Navy women recorded nine Army-Navy meet records, six Lejeune Hall pool records and three NCAA 'B' cut qualifying times.

"Our results surpassed what we were hoping for coming into today," said Navy women's coach John Morrison. "We did some different things leading up to this meet, but those changes really paid off tonight."

The Mids began the meet by placing first and second in the opening 200 medley relay, but Navy's first-place team was disqualified for a swimmer leaving the starting block too early. Navy still placed first and third in the final standings of the event, however.

Navy's Erik Hunter (Fr., Placerville, Calif.) opened the individual portion of the dual by winning the 1500 freestyle in a time of 15:37.09. Teammates Christopher Jenkins (Sr., Chicago, Ill.) and Billy Vey (Jr., Huntersville, N.C.) followed by winning the next two events, the 200 freestyle and the 100 backstroke, respectively. Jenkins recorded a time of 1:50.79 to win the former event by 1.24 seconds, with Vey narrowly edging teammate Andrew Hetzner (So., Riverside, Calif.) for the win in the latter event by three-tenths of a second.

Army's Jacob Mentele then picked up a victory for the Black Knights in the 100 breaststroke. His time of 1:02.92 set a new Lejeune Hall record.

Following Mentele's win, Navy tallied victories in the next five events. Adam Meyer (So., Bethesda, Md.) started the run by winning the 200 fly in a time of 1:58.86. He won the event by over six seconds, established a new meet record by nearly three seconds, broke a 24-year old pool record by almost two seconds and picked up an NCAA 'B' cut qualifying time.

After Jon Galinski (Jr., Phoenix, Md.) won the one-meter diving event with a score of 310.35, Alex Oldenkamp (Jr., Coppell, Texas) recorded times of 23.05 to win the 50 free and 50.65 to win the 100 freestyle. Vey then completed the Navy run by winning the 200 backstroke in a time of 2:03.52.

Mentele recorded a time of 2:15.55 to win the 200 breaststroke, but the Mids would close the meet with five-consecutive wins. Hunter captured his second distance event of the night by posting a time of 3:57.57 to win the 400 freestyle, Tyler Hill (Sr., Houston, Texas) won the 100 fly with a time of 55.63, Olaf Olson (Fr., Bainbridge Island, Wash.) scored 342.00 points to win the three-meter diving event and Meyer won the final individual event of the night, the 200 individual medley, in a meet record time of 2:01.66.

Navy concluded the evening by winning the 400 freestyle relay in a time of 3:23.62.

"We had a lot of great performances tonight," said Navy team captain Mike Lowhorn. "We really came together as a team over the last few weeks because we knew that was needed for us to have the kind of night we had this evening."

The women's meet began with a very close race in the 200 medley relay. Army's Cora Freeman entered the final leg of the relay holding close to a one-half of a body length lead over Thuy-Mi Dinh (So., Anaheim, Calif.), but Dinh evened the race after 25 meters and ended up winning the race by the same one-half length advantage she overcame. The foursome of Mids posted a winning time of 1:58.78, with Army's top team finishing in a time of 1:59.30

"The first race was very important in terms of momentum," said Morrison. "Our of our swimmers had very good times, with Thuy-Mi giving us a great finishing leg."

Navy's Tara Chapmon (So., Virginia Beach, Va.) won the first individual event of the meet, posting an Army-Navy Meet record time of 8:51.09 in winning the race by 22 seconds.

Allison Ranzau (Fr., Alpharetta, Ga.) followed by winning the 200 free in a meet, pool and NCAA 'B' cut qualifying time of 2:02.79. Jamie Call (Sr., Valdez, Alaska) made it four victories in four events for the Mids by edging Blair Miller for the win in the 100 backstroke by 1.3 seconds. Call's winning time was 1:06.41.

Army's Kim DeFiori picked up a five-second win in the next event, the 100 breaststroke, with a time of 1:13.53, but Kelly Zahalka (Jr., Richmond, Va.) gave Navy another victory by setting a meet record in winning the 200 fly with a time of 2:18.02.

Dinh then took to the pool for back-to-back events and set meet and Lejeune Hall records in both races. Prior to the break for diving, she posted a time of 25.64 in winning the 50 free, which also was an NCAA 'B' cut standard, then won the 100 free with a clocking of 57.84.

Ranzau recorded her second victory of the meet by taking the 200 backstroke in a time of 2:19.99 before Army's Erin Hanley won the 200 breaststroke in a time of 2:44.80.

Chapmon enjoyed another record-setting performance in the next event, the 400 freestyle, winning the race in a meet and pool record time of 4:15.26. Additionally, it was an NCAA 'B' cut standard.

After Army's Chelsey Freeman gave the Black Knights their third win of the afternoon by winning the 100 fly in a meet record time of 1:04.64, Zahalka closed the individual event portion of the meet by setting a meet and pool record in the 200 individual medley with a time of 2:20.31.

Navy's Katie Griffin (Sr., Ellicott City, Md.) swept the two diving events for the Mids, winning the one meter with a score of 277.05 and the three meter with a tally of 304.05.

Navy closed the meet with its 400 freestyle relay team posting a meet and pool record in winning the event with a time of 3:52.69.

"I'm very proud of everyone on the team for how they performed tonight," said Navy team captain Kristin Lowd. "We consistently recorded better times than we were expecting."

Both teams improved to 11-0 in dual meets this season with the win, will resume its dual meet season in January.