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Harvard Captures Sixth Straight Eastern Title; Army Finishes 7th

Mar 4, 2001

WEST POINT, N.Y. - The Army Black Knights crept up one more place in the team standings Saturday night at the EISL Championships, and Harvard University blew away the competition to capture its' sixth straight team title at Crandall Pool at West Point Saturday evening. Army finished seventh with 562 points. Harvard amassed 1,056 points to Princeton's 1,300.5. Yale finished third at 1,032, Brown (999.5), Navy (720) and Columbia (668) ran third through sixth. Finishing up behind the Black Knights were Cornell (525), Penn (488) and Dartmouth (292).

The Black Knights were paced by Mychajlo Eliaszewskyj and Dan Downs who each placed fourth and seventh respectively in the 200 breaststroke. Eliaszewskyj swam the 200 breaststroke in 2:02.82 and Downs touched in 2:04.03. Other top eight qualifiers included, Lucas Meyers, fourth in the 100 freestyle (45.36), Army's 400 free relay team who came in fifth (3:04.11) on the final day of competition, and John Martinko who finished sixth in the 200 butterfly with a time of 1:50.24.

The oldest Crandall Pool record still standing came crumbling down on Saturday evening at the EISLs when Princeton's Carl Hessler topped former Olympic Gold Medalist, Mark Spitz's time in the 200 fly. Hessler finished in 1:45.60 beating Spitz's 1:46.89 set back in 1972 when he was a senior at Indiana University. Will Oren, of Harvard, also eclipsed Spitz, finishing second to Hessler in 1:46.60.

Heidi Borden, a member of Army's women's swimming squad, broke the Academy record in the 100 free with a time of 52.07 during a time trial in-between the preliminaries and the finals of the EISLs. The old record of 52.15 was set by Jennifer Trainor in 1999.