Coast Guard 151, WPI 132

New London, CT --- WPI Men's Swimming and Diving dropped a 151-132 decision to host Coast Guard Academy on Saturday afternoon.

Andrew Lybarger (Atlanta, GA) led the way for the Engineers with a pair of victories in the 100-yard and 200-yard butterflies and the second spot in the 200-yard freestyle (1:51.5). Lybarger swam the 200-butterfly in 2:00.4 to take home the win before combining with Alford Green (Portmore, Jamaica) and David Keck (Orwigsburg, PA) to finish first (53.59), second (56.69) and third (57.20), respectively in the 100-butterfly.

Dan White (Sidney, ME) teamed up with Carl Curran (Keene, NH) and Nick Catano (Goffstown, NH) to sweep the 500-yard freestyle while Mason Ruffing (Stone Mountain, GA) captured first in the 200-yard IM (2:02.8) with Curran and Catano again finishing second (2:13.7) and third (2:23.7), respectively.

Other top individual finishes included Ruffing's second place finishes in the 100-yard (55.18) and 200-yard (1:59.84) backstrokes, Lee Chiang's (Lexington, MA) second spot in the 100-yard freestyle and Andrey Yamshchikov's (Essex Junction, VT) victory in three meter diving (160.25) and second place finish in the one meter (157.35).

Capping off the meet for the Crimson and Gray were Chiang, Lybarger, Green and Ruffing who crossed the finish line first in the 200-yard freestyle relay (1:31.14) ahead of teammates Robert Medaglio (Andover, MA), Minh Truong (West Roxbury, MA), Catano and Curran who grabbed second (1:42.70).

Men's Swimming and Diving, now 2-3 overall, will return on December 6th when they compete at the two-day Wesleyan Invitational.

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