Worcester, MA --- Men's Swimming and Diving won three relay
events and featured four individual event winners en route to 367
points and back-to-back Worcester City Meet titles Friday and
Saturday at Holy Cross. The hosts finished in second place overall
with 348 points, while Clark was third with 342. The title marks
the fifth overall for the Engineers in the nine-year history of the
tournament.
WPI set the tone for its success early in the meet. In the first
event of the tournament, WPI's 400-yard medley relay team of
Mason Ruffing (Stone Mountain, GA), Rob
Cakounes (Chelmsford, MA), Andrew
Lybarger (Atlanta, GA) and Lee Chiang
(Lexington, MA) raced to a win in 3:45.46. The quartet also took
third in the 200-yard medley relay (1:44.54). Chiang, Ruffing and
Lybarger then combined with Steve Rose (Worcester,
MA) to earn the victory in the 200-yard freestyle relay (1:31.08),
while Ruffing, Rose, Chiang and Lybarger swam to the win in the
400-yard freestyle relay (3:18.18).
Lybarger also added two individual event wins to his three relay
wins. The sophomore won the 100-yard (53.28) and 200-yard
butterflies (2:03.05) in addition to a second-place result in the
100-yard backstroke (56.83).
Ruffing and Chiang also each picked up individual wins for the
Crimson and Gray. Ruffing took home top honors in the 200-yard IM
(2:07.22) while adding a second-place in the 200-yard backstroke
(2:05.27) and a third-place finish in the 400-yard IM (4:39.86).
Chiang was the top man in the 100-yard freestyle (49.53) and was
second in both the 200-yard freestyle (1:51.94) and the 50-yard
freestyle (22.63).
Carl Curran (Keene, NH) turned in strong
performances in the long-distance events for the Crimson and Gray,
earning second-place in both the 1,650-yard freestyle (18:22.62)
and the 500-yard freestyle (5:10.73). Rose contributed a
third-place finish in the 100-yard freestyle (51.48), while diver
Dave Cancel (Chicopee, MA) was third in the
one-meter (319.30) and three-meter (301.60) dives.
Men's Swimming and Diving will return to the pool on Thursday
when they head out on the road to take on UMass Dartmouth at
6:30pm.
Results
