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Brandeis Picks Up Rare Tie Against Trinity

Brandeis Picks Up Rare Tie Against Trinity

From Brandeis University Athletics

The Brandeis men's swimming and diving team won the final relay of the day to earn a 144-144 tie with visiting Trinity College in Linsey Pool on Saturday.

THE FINAL RACE

  • Brandeis trailed, 138-133, headed into the final event,  the 200-yard freestyle relay.
  • The Judges picked up 11 points thanks to a first-place finish by the quartet of sophomores Evan Thom (Natick, Mass./Natick), Zach Diamond (Staten Island, N.Y./Staten Island Acad.), Taku Harada (Henrico, Va./Mills E. Godwin) and junior Cameron Braz (Monson, Mass./Monson). The Judges swam 1:31.22, edging the Bantams by 0.61 seconds.
  • Trinity's two relays took six points with second and third places to keep Brandeis from winning the meet outright.

INDIVIDUAL WINNERS

  • Brandeis had four double winners in individual events.
  • Braz won two freestyle sprints, the 50 in 23.03 by a margin of 16-hundredths of a second, and the 200 in 1:47.80. He was also second in the 100 free with a time of 49.69 seconds.
  • Diamond took the distance freestyle events by large margins, winning the 1000 by 49 seconds with a time of 10:20.13 and the 500 by four seconds in 5:02.13. He was also runner-up to a teammate in the 200 butterfly with a time off 2:05.91.
  • Junior Edan Zitelny (Syosset, N.Y./Syosset) also had two first and a second. He won the 200 butterfly in 2:02.79 and the 200 backstroke in 2:02.79, edging the Bantams' Alex Wolfson by 0.12 second. He was second in the 200 individual medley in 2:04.34.
  • Sophomore Sam Zucker (Omaha, Neb./Anderson) earned 18 points in diving with scores of 132.85 and 191.35 in the two events.