No. 10 Tufts Defeats No. 5 Men's Swim and Dive, 185-111

MEDFORD, Mass. - The No. 5 MIT men's swimming and diving team took on No. 10 Tufts in Saturday afternoon action. The Jumbos were able to grab a 185-11 win over the Engineers at the Hamilton Pool.

THE BASICS:

Score: Tufts 185, MIT 111

HOW IT HAPPENED:

3-Meter Dive: Sophomore Jack Tucker (Naples, Fla.) finished in third with a score of 250.72.

1-Meter Dive: Tucker finished in fourth with a mark of 250.57.

200 Medley Relay: MIT finished second in the event with the team of sophomore Aitor Arrese-Igor (Delray Beach, Fla.), junior Thomas Wu (Cedar Park, Texas), sophomore Bryce Roberts (Mill valley, Calif.), and junior Eugene Jiang (Baton Rouge, La.) finishing in 1:29.81.

1000 Free: First-year Grant Hu (Allen, Texas) won the event in 9:25.05.

200 Free: Sophomore Jason Wang (Brentwood, Tenn.) finished in second with a time of 1:42.65.

100 Back: The Engineers finished 2-4 in the event led by Arrese-Igor with a time of 49.38. Junior Zack West (Kailua, Hawaii) took third followed by graduate student Aaron Zhu (Chelmsford, Mass.).

100 Breast: Thomas Wu took third with a time of 57.71.

200 Fly: Ben Wu (New Canaan, Conn.) finished second in 1:50.54. Sophomore Nathan Zhu (Lexington, Conn.) finished in fourth with a time of 1:53.29 followed by senior Roderick Huang (Cupertino, Calif.) in fifth.

50 Free: Roberts finished in 21.42 for second overall followed by Jiang in third with a time of 21.55.

100 Free: Jiang finished in fifth as he touched the wall in 48.07.

200 Back: Zhu and West finished second and third with times of 1:53.79 and 1:53.92, respectively.

200 Breast: Wang and Huang took second and third. Wang finished in 2:05.14 followed by Huang with a time of 2:05.80.

500 Free: First-year Gidean Karp (The Woodlands, Texas) finished third in 4:45.40.

100 Fly: Ben Wu won the event in 49.70. Roberts took third in 50.16.

200 IM: Wang and Hu finished 1-2 with Wang leading the way with a time of 1:50.52. Hu finished in 1:51.02.

200 Free Relay: Thomas Wu, Roberts, first-year Anthony Koh (Dresher, Pa.), and Jiang finished the race in third with a time of 1:24.51.

UP NEXT:

MIT returns home for their last dual meet of the season when they host Amherst on Saturday, February 1 at 1:00 PM. Prior to the meet, the Engineers will honor its senior class.

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