The Big Green men's team (1-8, 0-6 EISL) lost to Yale (5-1, 4-1 EISL) 244-55 and to Penn (5-4, 2-4 EISL) 208-87. Dartmouth's women's squad (2-7, 0-5 Ivy) lost to Yale (5-1, 3-1 Ivy) 225-75 and to Penn (6-4, 3-4 Ivy) 210-90.
Although the meet was not closely contested, head coach Jim Wilson was not disappointed.
"We had a number of solid performances against our Ivy rivals," Wilson said. "We matched many of our season best times and [the meet] also gave us insight as a team on what we need to work on as our focus turns to Ivies and the EISL championships."
Men's co-captain Joe Braunreuther '08 was less satisfied than Wilson and felt the team could have performed significantly better.
"On the whole, we didn't swim as well as expected, which can partly be attributed to a tough week of training after BU," Braunreuther said.
The 400-yard freestyle relay team of Drew Wenzel '08, Gordon Russell '08, Marco Chu '11 and Kevin Ellis '09 took third with a time of 3:13.65.
Russell also earned Dartmouth's highest individual finish, coming in with a strong time of 1 minute and 56.49 seconds in the 200-yard backstroke and landing third place. He also swam his season-high time in the 200-yard freestyle, earning him fourth place.
Ellis also beat his season-best time by 13 seconds in the 1000-yard freestyle with a time of 9:46.06, finishing fourth in the event. Porter Diehl '09 finished right behind Ellis, placing fifth with a season-high time of 9:50.54.
In diving, the Big Green men saw a strong performance from Andrew Berry '08, who placed second in the 3-meter dive with a score of 303.65.
In addition, Michael Brown '11 had a personal-best dive in the 1-meter event, finishing with a score of 237.65.
On the women's side, Dartmouth took third place in both the 200-yard medley relay and the 400-yard freestyle relay. In the 200-yard medley relay, the team of Carolyn Rippe '10, Heather Jankins '09, co-captain Liz Mancuso '08 and Hillary Preston '09 swam a time of 1:51.25. In the 400-yard relay Preston, Virginia Seldon '11, Anna Sonstegard '11 and Maddie Steiner '11 had a time of 3:40.51.
Individually, Jankins and Steiner finished in second and third in the 100-yard freestyle event with times of 53.60 and 53.73 respectively.
Mancuso also earned a second place finish in the 100-yard butterfly event with a time of 59.02.
Wilson was particularly pleased with these finishes because Yale is known for having a dominant core of sprinters.
The women's divers also earned some points for the Big Green. Julianne Mifflin '08 finished second in the one-meter dive with a score of 232.80 and Bridgette Duffey '11 finished fourth in the same event in addition to finishing fifth in the three-meter dive with a score of 215.04.
Wilson was not disappointed with any of the swimmers results, noting that the regular season is primarily used for experience.
"Everything is really geared for championships," Wilson said. "We expect season and lifetime best [performances] to be products of our meets at Easterns and Ivies."
In regard to both team's Ivy League title chances, Wilson noted that the team is not competitive with most of the Ivy League schools and that both teams' chances were slim.
The team returns to action this weekend at home against league rival Princeton and the women will also swim against in-state rival UNH.
Coach Wilson is optimistic about the meets and hopes to come away with at least a victory over UNH.
"Princeton is a really tough meet," Wilson said. "They will provide us with really strong Ivy League competition which will help us prepare for the EISL's and Ivies. The UNH women are very competitive with us and we hope to have a good match up and come away with a victory against our in-state rival."
The team is also looking forward to the meet this weekend and hopes to give Princeton a run for their money.
"We look to have strong swims and keep pace with the top team in the league," Braunreuther said.
The meet is scheduled for Sunday,
