Middletown, CT - Freshman Mason Ruffing (Stone Mountain, CA) swam to four first place finishes and senior Jeff Meyer (Denver, CO) added two to help WPI to a second place finish at the two-day Wesleyan Invitational last weekend. Host Wesleyan won the invitational with 1326 points while WPI amassed 1000 points in the 24 event meet.

Ruffing picked up victories in the 100-yard (54.08) and 200-yard (2:02.05) butterflies and the 100-yard (57.05) and 200-yard backstrokes (2:02.49) and earned second place in the 50-yard butterfly (24.85). Meyer took home the top prize in the 500-yard freestyle (4:59.75) and 1650-yard freestyle (17:04.73) while taking second place in the 400-yard IM (4:18.39) and the 100-yard (1:03.60) and 200-yard breaststrokes (2:22.94).

Freshman Lee Chiang (Lexington, MA) and junior Dan White (Sidney, ME) swam to second place in the 50-yard freestyle (22:59) and 1650-yard freestyle (17:38.94), respectively, to wrap up the individual events for the Engineers. In relay action Ruffing, Meyer, Chiang and David Keck (Orwigsburg, PA) teamed up to take second in the 200-yard freestyle relay (1:30.87) and 400-yard medley relay (3:49.27) before finishing third in the 200-yard medley (1:44.38).

Capping off the day for the Crimson and Gray were Meyer, White, Ruffing and Steve Rose (Worcester, MA) who teamed up to take home second in the 800-yard freestyle relay.

WPI returns to action on December 8th when they travel to Keene State for a meet beginning at 1pm.
 

Results