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Men's Swimming
Lytle Comes Up Big For Irish In Tri-Meet Action
Nov. 2, 2007
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Sophomore John Lytle piled up a pair of second- and third-place finishes in individual and relay events on Friday evening as the University of Notre Dame swimming and diving team traveled to the Boilermaker Aquatic Center for tri-meet action with No. 14 Purdue and No. 22 Texas A&M. Lytle was second in the 200 Free and third in the 100 Free. He teamed for fourth in the 200 Medley Relay and a third-place spot in the 400 Free Relay. No. 17 Notre Dame men's swimming and diving team was dealt defeats by Purdue (81.00-219.00) and Texas A&M (127.00-171.00). Each of Notre Dame's dual meet defeats this season have been at the hands of top-25 programs after falling earlier in the season to No. 13 Southern California. The loss to the Aggies snapped Notre Dame's two-meet winning streak over Texas A&M. The Irish dropped the inaugural meeting between the two programs in 1992 and are 2-2 all-time against Texas A&M under head coach Tim Welsh. In an effort to string together back-to-back wins over Purdue for the first time since 1965-1966, the Boilermakers proved too much for Notre Dame to overcome. Notre Dame handed Purdue a 156-144 defeat last season - its first dual meet win over the intrastate foe since the 1966 campaign. Notre Dame (0-3) will now look ahead to a Nov. 9 meeting at Pittsburgh for a BIG EAST Conference showdown with the Panthers.
200 Medley Relay:
Andrew MacKay, Sam Pendergast, Ray Toomey, and John Lytle teamed for a fourth-place finish in 1:33.41 ... coming in sixth with a time of 1:34.92 was the tandem of Jeff Wood, Ross Moore, MacKenzie LeBlanc, and Andrew Hoffman.
1,650 Free: Notre Dame's top finishers were Michael Sullivan, who placed second in 15:56.11, and Andrew Deters (16:09.64), who was fourth. 200 Free: Purdue's John Schmitt (1:39.21) bested Lytle (1:40.44), who placed second ... Hoffman jolted his way to a fourth-place finish in 1:42.17. 100 Back: The Irish placed four swimmers in the top 10 spots ... MacKay (52.66) was the highest finisher after placing fourth ... behind him was Wood (52.69), Sullivan (53.42), and Thomas Van Volkenburg (54.35). 100 Breast: Paving the way for Notre Dame was fifth-place finisher Daniel Rave ... he completed the course in 57.93 ... Pendergast was ninth with a time of 1:00.19 ... behind him were Peter Koppel (1:00.65) and Eric Swenson (1:02.34). 200 Fly: A trio of men landed in the middle of the pack after all was said and done ... MacKenzie LeBlanc was fifth in 1:51.09 ... he was immediately preceded by Moore (1:53.44) and Christopher Wills (1:54.29). 50 Free: The top times for Notre Dame came from Toomey (21.60), who was sixth, and Joshua Nosal (21.92), who came in eighth. 100 Free: Third-place went to Lytle and his time of 45.86 ... Hoffman (47.04) and Nosal (47.50) finished seventh and eighth, respectively. 200 Back: Sullivan's 1:53.01 was good for fourth ... sixth-place Wills clocked in at 1:53.30 ... Jace Hopper cut through the water in 1:57.49 for ninth. 200 Breast: Rave parlayed his fifth-place finish in the 100 Breast by completing the 200 Breast in the same spot ... he was ND's main man in the event with a time of 2:08.14. 500 Free: LeBlanc was third with a time of 4:37.69 ... teammate Joseph Deters placed five spots down the line, going the distance in 4:41.93. 100 Fly: Two Fighting Irish swimmers finished in the top 5 ... Moore (50.48) was third, and Toomey (51.08) was fifth. 200 Individual Medley: With a time of 1:55.09, Moore earned a seventh-place finish ... MacKay (1:56.05) was eighth and LeBlanc (1:56.30) was ninth. 400 Free Relay: Blasting into third place was the quartet of Lytle, Nosal, Van Volkenburg, and Bill Bauman ... they notched a time of 3:08.29. 3-meter Diving: Purdue's Kyle Mitrione took home top honors with a count of 333.50 ... Michael Bulfin was second (322.80), Sam Stoner was third (322.35), and fourth-place finisher Steven Crowe totaled 303.40 points. 1-meter Diving: David Coulturi of Purdue racked up 329.90 points to win the 1-meter event ... Bulfin (327.80) and Stoner (299.35) took the next two spots for the Irish ... Eric Lex was next in line for Notre Dame with a score of 260.06.
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