Jan. 27, 2007
Final Stats
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. -- A trio of 1-2-3 finishes midway through the meet helped the Navy men's swimming and diving team record a 176-124 victory over Penn, Saturday afternoon at Sheerr Pool in Philadelphia.
"It was a pretty good meet for us," said Navy men's swimming head coach Bill Roberts. "We were pleased with the results."
The win, Navy's first road victory over the Quakers since the 1998-99 season, improves Navy's overall record on the season to 12-3, as well as to 4-3 against Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League opponents. The four league wins is the most for the program since the Mids posted a 4-5 league record during the 2001-02 season.
Penn fell to 6-7 on the season with the loss.
Navy started the meet by winning four of the opening five races to jump out to a 62-31 lead. After winning the 200 medley relay event, Cody Reeb (Fr., St. Louis, Mo.) and Andy Bockus (Sr., Oklahoma City, Okla.) placed first and second, respectively, in the 1000 freestyle. Reeb won the event in a time of 9:46.82, with Bockus finishing five seconds later for second place.
Penn's Pat Gallagher won the next event, the 200 freestyle, then Billy Vey (So., Huntersville, N.C.) won the 100 backstroke for the Mids (52.67) and teammate Kevin Kysiak (Jr., Western Springs, Ill.) won the 100 breaststroke (58.58).
Penn would win the next two events, the 200 fly and the 50 free, to close the margin to 74-57. Navy answered by having its athletes place first, second and third in three of the next four events to give the Mids a 128-79 advantage.
The Navy run began with diving as Kevin Teague (Sr., Lexington, Ky.) won the one-meter springboard with a pool record score of 330.90, Adam Niekras (Jr., Liverpool, N.Y.) placed second with a score of 281.10 and Jon Galinski (So., Phoenix, Md.) placed third with a tally of 280.13.
Penn swimmers placed first and second in the 100 free, but Vey, Danny Mizelle (Jr., Rockville, Va.) and Andrew Hetzner (Fr., Riverside, Calif.) swept the top-three places for the Mids in the 200 backstroke. Andrew Utama (Fr., Walnut Creek, Calif.), Adam Meyer and John Kennedy (Sr., Richmond, Va.) would then match the performance of the Navy's backstrokers in the following event, the 200 breaststroke.
Vey won the 100 back in a time of 1:55.09, with Utama posting a 2:07.31 to win the 200 breast.
The Mids picked up two additional victories over the remaining four events, with Vey winning his third event of the day, the 200 individual medley, and Galinski posting a score of 317.70 to win the three-meter springboard diving event.
"All of our divers came up big today," said Roberts. "Their performances on the one meter were awesome and was just the spark we needed."
Navy will close its dual meet season Friday when the Mids compete at Columbia.
