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Harvard may have won the relay by only a split-second, but the victory had a tidal wave effect...
...that medley relay, sophomore Janna McDougall gave Harvard an early lead with her 27.80 second backstroke split, senior Alexis Todor added to the lead with a sub-30 second breaststroke leg, freshman Anna Fraser used her 25.30 butterfly leg to buffer that slight lead, and sophomore Sarah Murphy brought home the freestyle leg to edge out Brown by less than one-tenth of a second...
...After losing the opening relay at last year's meet, we didn't want the first event to affect our momentum for the whole meet," senior Adrienne Leight said. "But it still got us really excited. That win set the wheels in motion for the next few events, which we performed really well...
Brown superstar Katie Cowan was able to win the 1,000-freestyle, which followed the first relay, but sophomores Tina Weiner and Rebekah Lorenz, along with freshman Meaghan Casey, countered that victory by finishing second through fourth, cutting Brown's gain from the race down to one point...
...course, it is only fitting that Harvard ended the meet the same way it started, winning the 400-freestyle relay...