Jan. 26, 2008
Final Stats
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - The Navy men's swimming and diving team won all but three of the 16 events of its meet against Penn outright in posting a 164.5-116.5 victory over the Quakers, Saturday afternoon in Lejeune Hall.
The win gives Navy a 5-1 record against Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League teams this season and assures the Mids of their first winning EISL season in eight years. Navy's overall record also improved to 14-1 on the year, while the Quakers fell to 304 in the league and 7-5 on the season.
"It was a great team win," said Navy swimming head coach Bill Roberts. "The team came out firing right from the opening relay. We won a lot of close races, but the key to our win, as it has been all season, was our depth."
After Navy won the opening 200 medley relay, Erik Hunter (Fr., Placerville, Calif.) recorded a time of 8:19.52 to win the 800 freestyle by nine seconds, with teammates Sam Martinette (Fr., Richmond, Va.) finishing in second place and J.J. Helms (Fr., Conroe, Texas) placing third.
Christopher Jenkins (Sr., Chicago, Ill.) and Jack Curran (So., Silver Spring, Md.) followed with a first and second-place showing in the 200 freestyle with times of 1:52.99 and 1:53.94, respectively, then Andrew Hetzner (So., Riverside, Calif.) won the 200 backstroke by two-tenths of a second in a time of 58.89.
Ari Molina (Jr., Arlington, Va.) won the next event, the 100 breaststroke, for Navy with a time of 1:04.52, with Kevin Kysiak (Sr., Western Springs, Ill.) finishing two seconds later to finish in second place. Adam Meyer (So., Bethesda, Md.) promptly gave Navy its sixth win in as many events with a 5.5 second victory in the 200 fly (2:02.60).
In all, Navy scored three swimmers in the opening five individual events to build an 82-30 advantage.
Soon, Adam Niekras (Sr., Liverpool, N.Y.) won the one-meter springboard for Navy, then Alex Oldenkamp (Jr., Coppell, Texas) closed out the first half of the meet by winning the 50 freestyle in a time of 23.42.
The second half of the meet began with Oldenkamp and Penn's Patrick Gallagher both recording a time of 52.29 to share first-place honors in the 100 freestyle, then Navy swimmers finished 1-2-3 in the next two events, the 200 backstroke and the 200 breaststroke. Billy Vey (Jr., Huntersville, N.C.) claimed the top honors for Navy in the 200 back with a time of 2:05.91, with Meyer winning the 200 breaststroke in a time of 2:20.96.
The very next event saw Hunter join Meyer with a pair of individual event wins as he recorded a time of 4:01.82 to claim the 400 freestyle race.
After Penn's Wei Ming Gan won the 100 fly, Niekras totaled 308.33 points to win the three-meter board and Meyer closed out the individual event portion of the meet with a clocking of 2:05.51 to win the 200 individual medley.
Penn closed the meet by winning the 200 freestyle relay.
Navy will play host to the Navy invitational Feb. 2 in Lejeune Hall, then will close its regular season with meets Feb. 8 at home against Columbia and the following day at Princeton.
