Hartford, CT --- Men's swimming and diving dropped a hard-fought 151-132 decision to Trinity College on Saturday afternoon.  With the loss, the Engineers fall to 5-6 on the season. 

Freshman Mason Ruffing (Stone Mountain, CA) led WPI with three first place finishes, with wins in the 50-yard (23.21), 100-yard (50.29) and 200-yard (1:50.50) freestyles.  Senior Jeff Meyer (Denver, CO) picked up first in the 500-yard freestyle (5:08.98) and 200-yard IM (2:04.97) while Dan White (Sidney, ME), Alford Green (Portmore, Jamaica) and David Keck (Orwigsburg, PA) took home the top prize in the 1000-yard freestyle (10:28.10), 100-yard butterfly (56.44) and 50-yard freestyle (25.01), respectively. 

Second place finishes included Lee Chiang (Lexington, MA) in the 200-yard freestyle (1:51.51), Robert Medaglio (Andover, MA) in the 100-yard butterfly (1:04.01), Chase Johnson (Eastham, MA) in the 100-yard backstroke (1:00.32) and Steve Rose (Worcester, MA) in the 500-yard freestyle (5:10.97). 

In addition to their impressive individual finishes, Ruffing, Meyer, Keck and Rose combined to place first in the 400-yard medley relay with their time of 3:47.02. 

Men's swimming and diving is off until February 29th when they compete at the NEWMAC Championships at MIT.

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