The Johns Hopkins men's swim team won 11 of 13 swimming events to defeat Marywood and host Loyola at the annual Thomas Murphy Invitational. With wins over the Pacers (270-93) and the Greyhounds (242-123), the Blue Jays improve to 3-0 on the season. Senior Anthony Lordi and freshmen Muhammad Hudhud and Scott Sterrett led the way for the Blue Jays with two individual wins apiece. Lordi also swam on the winning 200 Medley Relay team.
Day two started with the 200 Free Relay and the Blue Jay team of freshman Jeremy Bauchwitz, junior Ed Pagano, senior David Woodford and freshman Austin Bridges swam a time of 1:28.19 for second place. Hudhud then picked up the first of his two wins on the day as he took the top spot in the 400 IM with a time of 4:10.86, winning by more than eight seconds. Junior Ryan Cunningham placed third with a time of 4:19.52.
The Blue Jays followed with a sweep of first through third in the 100 Fly. Junior Greg Kogut led the field with a time of 51.37, to win by nearly two seconds over Woodford (53.30). Pagano placed third as he finished in 53.94. Hopkins did itself one better in the 200 Free by taking the top four spots. Lordi cruised to the win as he touched in 1:42.02. Freshman Josh Hughes placed second in 1:45.93 followed by classmate Andrew Greenhalgh (1:46.12) and Bauchwitz (1:46.90) in third and fourth, respectively.
Junior Dylan Davis beat the field in the 100 Back with a winning time of 51.86 to best Loyola's Aidan O'Hara by 1.10 seconds. The Blue Jays then took second through sixth, led by freshman Patrick Flynn, who lost out on second place by just two-hundredths of a second (52.98). In the 100 Breast, Hopkins once again swept the top three spots, led by Sterrett with a winning time of 59.67. Senior Joe Acquaviva followed in a close second with a time of 59.96 while freshman Bryan Pon placed third in 1:00.72.
Greenhalgh beat the field in the 1650 Free by more than 42 seconds to win with an NCAA provisional time of 16:06.18. Hughes followed in second place with a time of 16:48.41 and sophomore Michael McGoldrick placed fourth in 16:59.92. Hopkins added to its win total with first and third-place finishes in the 200 Medley Relay. Davis, Acquaviva, Woodford and Lordi swam a winning time of 1:35.46. Taking third place in 1:38.14 were junior Berkay Polat, Pon, Kogut and Bauchwitz.
The Blue Jays had their streak of seven straight wins snapped in the 200 Back, but they made up for it by taking second through fifth place. Davis led the way for the Jays with a time of 1:54.44, followed by Flynn in 1:57.35. Cunningham touched in 1:59.97 for fourth place, followed by Acquaviva in fifth in 2:00.00. Hopkins got back to its winning ways in the 100 Free as Lordi touched first with a time of 46.29 while junior Aaron Katrikh placed fourth in 48.99. Sterrett and Pon then combined to go one-two in the 200 Breast. Sterrett got to the wall first, winning in 2:12.65, and Pon followed in 2:15.31.
Hudhud and Kogut followed suit with first and second-place finishes, respectively, in the 200 Fly. Hudhud took the win in 1:55.30 and Kogut finished in 1:57.53. Hopkins closed out the meet with first and second-place finishes in the 400 Free Relay. Acquaviva, Kogut, Bauchwitz and Flynn combined to get the win in 3:10.85. Taking second place were Katrikh, Sterrett, Bridges and Hughes with a time of 3:15.07.
Hopkins is idle for two weeks and will be back in action on November 22-23 at the Gettysburg Invitational.
The Johns Hopkins women's swim team won eight of 13 swimming events to earn wins over Marywood and St. Francis (PA) at the annul Thomas Murphy Invitational. Hopkins defeated Marywood, 270-87, and St. Francis, 225-106, but suffered a 207-156 loss to host Loyola as the Blue Jays improve to 3-1 on the season.
Senior Taylor Kitayama led the way for the Blue Jays on the final day of the invitational with three individual wins while also swimming the lead off on the winning 400 Free Relay team. Junior Ana Bogdanovski also picked up a pair of individual wins, as well as swimming on the winning 200 and 400 Free Relay teams, to help the Blue Jays' cause.
Hopkins kicked off the day by winning the 200 Free Relay, beating out Loyola by half a second. Bogdanovski, seniors Sarah Rinsma and Kylie Ternes and sophomore Megan Auzenbergs swam a winning time of 1:37.46. Finishing in a tie for third place with a time of 1:39.97 were freshmen Kailyn Koh and Pilar Shimizu, junior Melinda Yau and sophomore Ellen Marcus. Junior Sammi Fox then placed second in the 400 IM, clocking in at 4:42.48.
Kitayama and freshman Shirley Chan followed with a one-two finish in the 100 Fly. Kitayama took the top spot as she touched in 56.23, an NCAA provisional time, and Chan followed in 58.50. In the next event, Bogdanovski beat Loyola's Caitlin Cronin to the wall by 0.21 seconds to win the 200 Free with a time of 1:54.74. Marcus placed fourth as she clocked in at 1:58.08. Kitayama picked up her second win of the day in the 100 Back, winning by nearly three seconds with an NCAA provisional time of 57.44. Sophomore Sean McGrath took third place with a time of 1:00.46.
Pilar then took third place in the 100 Breast with a time of 1:08.94. Freshman Lindsay Kriz was the top finisher for the Blue Jays in the 1650 Free, finishing in 18:35.31 for seventh place. Hopkins then took second and third in the 200 Medley Relay. Kitayama, Shimizu, junior Kylie Holden and Koh swam a time of 1:48.62, good for second place. While McGrath, Fox, freshman Abby Brown and Bogdanovski finished in third with a time of 1:50.04.
Kitayama completed her sweep of the backstroke events with a win in the 200 by more than five seconds. She touched in 2:03.97, an NCAA provisional time, and Fox placed second with a time of 2:09.41. Bogdanovski added another freestyle win to her credit as she took the top spot in the 100 with an NCAA provisional time of 51.80. Koh placed fourth with a time of 54.10 and Ternes followed in fifth just two-hundredths of a second later.
Freshman Helen Arose was the top Blue Jay in the 200 Breast with a time of 2:33.88, good for seventh place. Chan then won the 200 Fly in 2:06.88, nearly six seconds ahead of St. Francis' Libby Francis. Her time is an NCAA provisional time and the seventh fastest in program history. Hopkins closed out the day with first and third-place finishes in the 400 Free Relay. Kitayama, Ternes, Rinsma and Bogdanovski swam a winning time of 3:33.13. Taking third place with a time of 3:38.41 were McGrath, Koh, Yau and Marcus.
Hopkins is idle for two weeks and will be back in action on November 22-23 at the Gettysburg Invitational.
