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Even more impressive, that swim came a little over 20 minutes after his third place finish in the 100 fly final earlier in the session.<\/p>\n<p>In second was\u00a0<strong>Devon Nowicki\u00a0<\/strong>out of lane 6 in 27.17, which was .07 off his prelims swim. He was followed by short course American record holder\u00a0<strong>Ian Finnerty\u00a0<\/strong>(27.19) in third and American record holder\u00a0<strong>Kevin Cordes\u00a0<\/strong>in fourth (27.21).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Connor Hoppe <\/strong>(27.31),\u00a0<strong>Nic Fink\u00a0<\/strong>(27.49),\u00a0<strong>Max McHugh\u00a0<\/strong>(27.66), and\u00a0<strong>Jacob Montague\u00a0<\/strong>(27.80) rounded out the rest of the A-final.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_321722\" style=\"width: 1612px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-321722\" data-attachment-id=\"321722\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ryan-murphys-american-record-highlights-fast-third-night-of-finals-at-us-nationals\/screen-shot-2018-07-27-at-10-22-50-pm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-27-at-10.22.50-PM.png\" data-orig-size=\"1602,782\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen Shot 2018-07-27 at 10.22.50 PM\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Screen Shot 2018-07-27 at 10.22.50 PM&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy:&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-27-at-10.22.50-PM-700x500.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-27-at-10.22.50-PM-1024x500.png\" class=\"wp-image-321722 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-27-at-10.22.50-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2018-07-27 at 10.22.50 PM\" width=\"1602\" height=\"782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-27-at-10.22.50-PM.png 1602w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-27-at-10.22.50-PM-533x260.png 533w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-27-at-10.22.50-PM-280x137.png 280w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-27-at-10.22.50-PM-1024x500.png 1024w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-27-at-10.22.50-PM-150x73.png 150w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-27-at-10.22.50-PM-500x244.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1602px) 100vw, 1602px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-321722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy:<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael\u00a0Andrew\u00a0dropped .02 off his U.S. Open record from this morning to grab his second National title of the meet. 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