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WPI Men's Swimming and Diving goes 2-0 at the Babson Double-Dual

WPI 86, Elms 15

WPI 68, Babson 41 

 

Babson Park, MA ---The WPI men's swimming and diving team had a victorious day in the pool coming away with a double dual meet win over Elms (86-15) and host Babson (68-41) on Saturday afternoon

Freshman Mason Ruffing (Stone Mountain, CA) continued to impress as he prevailed in the 200-yard IM (2:05.14), 100-yard butterfly (54.89) and 100-yard backstroke (57.23) to help WPI to its wins.  Junior Dan White (Sidney, ME) took home a pair of wins in the 1000-yard freestyle (10:28.81) and 500-yard freestyle (5:05.51) while Steve Rose (Worcester, MA) and Chase Johnson (Eastham, MA) took home the top prize in the 200-yard freestyle (1:51.21) and 100-yard breaststroke (1:07.10), respectively.  Freshman Lee Chiang (Lexington, MA) placed second in the 50-yard freestyle (22.86) and the 100-yard freestyle (49.47) for the Engineers.

Rounding out the day for WPI was the 200-yard freestyle relay team of Chiang, While, Johnson and Rose with a first place win (1:34.43) and the 200-yard medley team consisting of Johnson, Minh Truong (West Roxbury, MA), Tito Cruz (Hartford, CT), and David Keck (Orwigsburg, PA) with a second place finish (1:48.58).

The Engineers are now 3-1 and will travel to Coast Guard on Saturday for a 1pm meet.

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