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Tartans Swim Past Allegheny and CWRU at Season Opening Meet

Tartans Swim Past Allegheny and CWRU at Season Opening Meet

From Carnegie Mellon University Athletics

The Carnegie Mellon University men's swimming and diving team began the 2016-2017 season at a double dual meet with Allegheny College and Case Western Reserve University at Case Western Reserve on Saturday, October 29. The Tartans topped both schools, defeating Allegheny 238-60 and CWRU 231-69 behind 13 event victories.

The 200-yard medley relay of freshman Richard Deng (West Windsor, N.J./West Windsor Plainsboro South), junior Matthew Chu (Warren, N.J./Saint Peter's Prep), senior Sivan Mehta (Scarsdale, N.Y./Scarsdale) and senior Brian Jay (Wayne, Pa./Conestoga) started the meet with a first-place finish in a time of 1:35.67.

Freshman Daniel Li (Charlotte, N.C./Providence) earned the team's first individual win of the season when he touched first in the 1,000-yard freestyle in 9:46.03. Sophomore Mitchell Riek (Sunland, Calif./Bishop Alemany) picked up his first win in the 200-yard freestyle as he finished the race in 1:42.66 ahead of freshman teammate Sam Hawke (Malvern, Pa./Episcopal Academy) in 1:43.51.

Mehta led a sweep of the 100-yard backstroke with a first-place time of 53.79. Sophomore Winston Chu (Warren, N.J./Saint Peter's Prep) touched the wall just ahead of his brother in the 100-yard breaststroke to win in 58.18. The Tartans also swept the event with freshman Connor Clayton (Simpsonville, S.C./Mauldin) touching third in 1:01.01. In the 200-yard breaststroke, Winston again touched first with Clayton placing second and Jay taking third. Winston's winning time was 2:12.32.

Freshman Rip Lyster (Naples, Fla./Gulf Coast) earned a victory in the 200-yard butterfly when he touched in 1:54.90 while Hawke was first in the 100-yard freestyle in 47.45 and second in the 50-yard freestyle in 21.95.

Sophomore Gabe Bamforth (Cambridge, Mass./CRLS) won the 1-meter diving event with 290.10 points, as junior DeShawn Green (Newport News, Va./Warwick) was second with a career best 208.40 points. Bamforth also won the 3-meter diving event with a score of 264.55. Green followed him for another second-place showing and another career best with 190.05 points.

In the last freestyle event of the day, Li returned to the pool to win the 500-yard freestyle in 4:43.44. Mehta followed it with a first-place performance in the 100-yard butterfly when he touched in 52.31 and Lyster closed out the individual events with a first-place finish in the 200-yard IM in 1:58.19.

The team closed the meet with a first-place showing in the 200-yard freestyle relay when Mehta, Hawke, freshman Ryan Fitzpatrick (Montgomery, N.J./Montgomery) and Jay touched in 1:27.46.