Norton, MA --- Men's Swimming and Diving began competition at the three-day NEWMAC Championships on Friday afternoon.  It was a strong day for the Crimson and Gray, as the team established three new school records.  After five events, the Engineers are in fourth place overall with 118 points.

The 200-yard freestyle relay combination of David Keck (Orwigsburg, PA), Andrew Lybarger (Atlanta, GA), Alford Green (Portmore, Jamaica) and Lee Chiang (Lexington, MA) swam to a school record in the preliminaries with a 1:26.64 mark and improved upon that in the finals (1:24.81) finish fourth.  The WPI B team of Steve Rose (Worcester, MA), Minh Truong (West Roxbury, MA), Green and Carl Curran (Keene, NH) placed 11th (1:30.76).

Dan White (Sidney, ME) touched the wall in 4:55.6 to finish 15th in the 500-yard freestyle while Curran was 17th (4:57.5).  Teammate Mason Ruffing (Stone Mountain, GA) registered a school record time of 1:56.05 to finish third in the 200-yard IM with Mike Boucher (East Lyme, CT) placing 27th (2:15.8).

WPI saw two athletes place in the 50-yard freestyle - Chiang who set a new school record with a 21.31 mark and fifth place finish, and Keck who swam to 15th (22.21).

Closing out the evening for the Engineers were Ruffing, Rob Cakounes (Chelmsford, MA), Lybarger and Chiang who teamed up to take home third (3:32.89) in the 400-yard medley relay and Rose, Truong, Keck and Green who placed 12th (3:45.21) in the event.

Action resumes tomorrow with the preliminaries at 11am with the finals to follow at 6:30pm.

Results