After day two of the Ivy Swimming and Diving Championships, Harvard has a slim lead. The Crimson have tallied 1018 points, just ahead of the Princeton Tigers (965.6 points). Pennsylvania rounds out the top three.<\/p>\n
The day started with the 200-yard medley relay. The Harvard team took first place with a time of 1:25.57. The relay consisted of backstroker\u00a0Steven Tan,\u00a0<\/strong>breaststroker\u00a0Shane McNamara,\u00a0<\/strong>butterflier\u00a0Max Yakubovich\u00a0<\/strong>and freestyler\u00a0Paul O’Hara<\/strong>. Princeton took the silver medal and Columbia was third.<\/p>\n In the 400-yard individual medley, Pennsylvania’s\u00a0Mark Andrew\u00a0<\/strong>touched first with a time of 3:43.53.\u00a0Corey Okubo\u00a0<\/strong>of Princeton earned a silver medal in 3:46.04 and his teammate,\u00a0Samuel Smiddy<\/strong>, was third with a time of 3:46.73.<\/p>\n Harvard’s\u00a0Max Yakubovich\u00a0<\/strong>took first in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 46.59.\u00a0Ben Schafer\u00a0<\/strong>of Princeton touched second in 46.79, and Columbia’s\u00a0Terry Li\u00a0<\/strong>earned the bronze in 47.07.<\/p>\n A Pennsylvania swimmer picked up an individual win in the 200-yard freestyle.\u00a0Eric Schultz\u00a0<\/strong>touched in 1:35.22. Harvard’s\u00a0Aly Abdel Khalik\u00a0<\/strong>touched second in 1:36.77. Princeton’s\u00a0Julian Mackrel\u00a0<\/strong>finished only four-hundredths of a second later in 1:36.81.<\/p>\n Cornell’s\u00a0Alex Evdokimov\u00a0<\/strong>took first place in the 100-yard breaststroke. He posted a time of 52.46 to win by over a second. McNamara touched second in 53.60 and Princeton’s\u00a0Byron Sanborn\u00a0<\/strong>took the bronze in 53.68.<\/p>\n In the 100-yard backstroke,\u00a0En-Wei Hu-Van Wright\u00a0<\/strong>of Princeton took the gold medal with a time of 46.13. His teammate,\u00a0Alexander Lewis<\/strong>, touched second in 47.36. Dartmouth’s\u00a0James Verhagen\u00a0<\/strong>took third with a time of 47.53.<\/p>\n Princeton barely beat Pennsylvania in the 800-yard freestyle relay. The Tigers won by six-hundredths of a second. The team of Schafer,\u00a0Julian Mackrel, Teo D’Alessandro\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Sandy Bole\u00a0<\/strong>touched in 6:25.73. Yale was third in 6:26.01.<\/p>\n Tomorrow’s preliminary races begin at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After day two of the Ivy Swimming and Diving Championships, Harvard has a slim lead. The Crimson have tallied 1018 points, just ahead of the Princeton Tigers (965.6 points). Pennsylvania<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":49427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[56766],"class_list":["post-187905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college","tag-2016-ivy-league-mens-championships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n