EAST
MEADOW, N.Y. -
Geoff
Rathgeber, David
Cromwell and Danil
Rybalko
claimed the league's top individual honors as the Harvard men's
swimming and diving team won five more events Saturday and finished
second at the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League Championships at
the Nassau County Aquatic Center. Rathgeber and Cromwell, who won three
individual Ivy
championships each, shared the Swimmer of the Meet Award with Cornell's
Michael Smit. Rybalko, meanwhile, was named Diver of the Meet after he
took first place in both the one- and three-meter events. It is the
20th time overall and the ninth straight year that
Harvard swimmers have won the Moriarty Award. Cromwell shared the honor
with Rassan
Grant in 2004.
The Crimson finished the meet with 13 wins in the 21 events, but
Princeton's depth proved to be the difference. Harvard cut the Tiger
lead to as few as 19 points, but Princeton pulled away with five
finalists in the 200 butterlfly and went on to win with 1,393 points.
Harvard finished second with 1,287, followed by Columbia (990.5),
Cornell (984.5), Yale (925), Navy (700), Brown (665), Penn (638.5) and
Dartmouth (327.5).