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Harvard Still Setting The Pace At Easterns

Mar 3, 2001

WEST POINT, N.Y. - A day after the Army swimmers only saw one participant reach the finals, the Black Knights put together a much better showing and moved up two spots to eighth place after day two of the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming Championships at Crandall Pool Friday night.

Harvard University swimmers set four pool records and one meet record as they continued their dominance. The Crimson have 1,086 points after two days of competition. They lead second-place Princeton who has 852.5. The Tigers are followed by Yale (735), Brown (669), Navy (482), Columbia (460), Penn (362), Army (335.5), Cornell (329) and Dartmouth (222).

Army's Mychajlo Eliaszewskyj was one of three Black Knights to place in the 100-yard breaststroke as he pulled down the hosts' highest finish in the EISL championships thus far. Eliaszewskyj touched in 56.93 seconds, while teammates Dan Downs and Pat Schmidt were seventh and eighth respectively. Lucas Meyers was fifth in the 200 free with a time of 1:39.95, and Army's 200 medley relay team finished in sixth, one spot ahead of Navy, with a time of 1:33.36. The only other Black Knight placement in the finals came from the 800 free relay team that came in sixth with a time of 6:47.54.

Harvard sophomore Dan Shevchik set a pool record and meet record when he touched the wall in 3 minutes 46.69 seconds in the 400-yard individual medley. Rassan Grant, John Cole and Mike Im were the other Crimson swimmers to set new pool standards

Tomorrow marks the final day of competition with the preliminaries at 11:00 a.m. and the finals at 6:00 p.m.