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...first event was even more successful in terms of points for the Crimson than the final one. Ron Raikula, Mike Coglin and Tim Maximoff all put together strong finishing legs in the 400-yd. individual medley to finish first, second and fourth, respectively. Raikula, who ranked among the top twenty in the world in the metric equivalent of this event this past summer, said afterwards, "After the butterfly, I though I was out of it. Then, on the fourth leg of breaststroke, I looked over and was surprised to see that no one was really ahead...
Tiger captain Bruce Kone upset teammate and defending champion Bill Specht in the 100-yd. butterfly, but the bigger story was Harvard's placing four men among the top 11. Sophomore Dan Menichella also turned in a notable performance, as his clocking of 50.96 in winning the consolation heat topped his previous lifetime best...
...Nishimura gave the service academies their second first-place finish, blitzing the field and qualifying for nationals with his meet record 57.37 in the 100-yd. breaststroke. The win was the first ever at the Easterns for the Army second-classman, who has consistently been among the league's top performers...
...decision the supervisor made is a routine decision taken "in cases when we know someone is on the mountain. They're not supposed to be there alone. The weather was severe--a 70 to 82 degree below zero wind-chill factor on top of the mountain. We had a moral and legal obligation to get Mr. Yates," explained Tibbs...
...star of the 50, however, and perhaps of the meet thus far, was Harvard's super-psyched Geoff Seelen. Seelen surprised everyone who thought he was a backstroker by ripping off a 21.37 in the trials to sneak into the top eight. The man he displaced, much to the delight of cheering Crimson partisans, was mammoth Princeton junior Alan Stein, who settled for ninth...