It was a three-way battle between Princeton, Harvard and Yale, but a stunning 200 breaststroke race by Penn and Brown stars provided the fireworks with two of the top three times in the country this year.
Much of the talk around the meet was Penn senior Matthew Fallon, who didn’t win the Ivy League title in the 100 breast (51.56) then crushed the fastest 200 breaststroke in the country this season at 1:48.85.
Brown’s Jack Kelly was second in 1:49.80, the third-fastest time of the year.
But it was the depth of Princeton that won the meet with 1,330 points. Harvard was second with 1,262.5, followed by Yale (1,212.5), Brown (927.5), Cornell (912.5), Columbia (854.5), Penn (701.5) and Dartmouth (571).
Princeton broke the meet record in the 800 free relay with Arthur Balva, Mitchell Schott, Noah Sech and Patrick Dinu getting to the wall in 6:13.75.
Schott won the 200 IM in 1:41.44, a second ahead of the field. He also won the 200 free in 1:31.63 and 200 fly in a meet record 1:40.42. Dinu won the 100 free in 42.24.
Yale’s Lucius Brown, Alexander Hazlett, Nicholas Finch and Daniel Nankov won the 200 medley relay in 1:24.00, holding off Harvard (1:24.20).
Finch, Nankov, Brown and Noah Millard broke the meet record to win the 200 free relay in 1:16.48, holding off Harvard (1:16.53), which was also under the previous meet mark.
Finch won the 50 free in a Brown University pool record of 19.07. He also broke the meet record to win the 100 butterfly in 44.57, also a second ahead of the field.
Millard broke the meet record to win the 500 free in 4:07.66, finishing a stunning 10 seconds ahead of the field. He also won the 1650 free in 14:34.72.
Yale’s Arshak Hambardzumyan won the 100 free in 8:51.82 and was second in the 1650 (14:56.65).
Finch, Nankov, Jake Wang and Millard broke the meet record to win the 400 free relay in 2:48.74, holding off Harvard (2:49.76) and Princeton (2:49.93), which also bettered the previous meet mark.
Harvard’s Raphael Tourette won 3-meter diving with 341.10 points.
Brown’s Marton Nagy won the 400 IM in 3:42.64. Jack Kelly won the 100 breaststroke in a meet-record 50.60, shattering his own mark of 51.25 set in the prelims.
Brown’s Rowland Lawver won 1-meter diving with 370.30 points.
Cornell’s Pietro Ubertalli won the 100 backstroke in 45.29 and 200 back (1:38.99) in a meet record. Ubertalli teamed with Sebastian Wolff, Joseph Gurski and Dominic Edwards to win the 400 medley relay in a pool-record 3:06.39.
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