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Terrier Invite
Men Take First Place at Terrier Invite; Falkstrom Crushes 200 Breast Records
November 19, 2023 | Men's Swimming & Diving
Falkstrom had his sights set on the 200-yard breaststroke record and delivered in the morning prelims, swimming a 1:57.14 to top his school record and take down a 15-year pool record in the process. Then in the finals, Falkstrom turned in arguably the best swim of his career, touching the wall in 1:55.89, shaving 1.25 seconds off his prelim time and secure an NCAA 'B' cut.
The Terriers totaled 1774 points during the three-day meet to outdistance second-place Massachusetts, finished with 1579.5. Fairfield was third with 1212.5 and Bryant, which only competed in diving, had 105.
Junior Dolan Grisbaum started off the night by winning the 1650-yard freestyle in a time of 15:45.64 before the Terriers dominated the 200-yard backstroke, waking five of the top six spots. Sophomore Tony Ponomarev had a winning time of 1:47.33 while freshman Jonny Farber was right behind in second, turning in a personal best of 1:47.85.
Senior Justin Lee was runner-up in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 45.91 and junior Andy Carlson had a personal-best time of 2:02.17 in his second-place finish behind Falkstrom in the 200 breast. Freshman Jonathan Tsang took second in the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 1:50.09.
The meet concluded with the 400-yard freestyle relay and the team of Falkstrom, Lee, junior Pier Bressan and Farber took first, finishing in 3:00.75.
The Terriers will return to action on Saturday, Dec. 2, when they visit Holy Cross for a Patriot League dual starting at noon.
Top Point Scorers
Jackson Olin - 16, 20, 18.5, 19 — 73.5
Kyle Falkstrom - 24, 24, 24 — 72
Justin Lee - 21, 24, 21 — 66
Dolan Grisbaum - 21, 20, 24 — 65
Tony Ponomarev - 19, 21, 24 — 64
Adrien Pierce - 20, 24, 18 — 62
Evan Liu - 20, 24, 15 — 59
Andy Carlson - 16, 20, 21 — 57
Pier Bressan - 9, 7, 16, 19 — 51
Jonny Farber - 11, 19, 21 — 51
Jonathan Tsang - 13, 16, 21 — 50
Ben Cho - 19, 14, 16.5 — 49.5
Ethan Huynh - 11, 21, 17 — 49
Justin Liao - 4, 18, 18 — 40
Toby Jackson - 6, 14, 19 — 39
Tomas Samuolis - 9, 5, 16, 9 — 39
Zein Mahana - 19, 20 — 39
Jackson Hogue - 9, 3, 11, 14 — 37
Andy Rogatinsky - 14, 16, 7 — 37
Keegan Duffy - 20, 17 — 37
Andreas Mason - 3, 11, 13 — 27
David Johnson - 14, 13 — 27
Graham Horrigan - 2, 9, 14 — 25
David Kohan - 4, 8, 11 — 23
Jed Tan - 2, 13, 4 — 19
Shunsuke Moridaira - 9, 3 — 12
Nate Frucht — 2
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