Home  Swimming (M) Men's Swimming - MIT Ends Bears NEWMAC Reign
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 Jim Okorn won the 100 butterfly and had a part in three second place finishes for the Bears.
MIT won the three-day event with 1,030 points while Coast Guard finished a distant second with 784.5 points and Springfield took third place with 613 points.
Coast Guard had won six championships (1999, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008) in the past nine seasons.
The Bears, who won seven of the 20 events at the NEWMAC Championship last season, won just one event this season while taking seven second place finishes, both the first and second place finishers in each event earn All-conference honors.
Senior Jim Okorn took home the only championship for the Bears, as he won the 100 butterfly with an NCAA B cut and school-record time of 49.87. He also took home three second place finishes as he was second in the 50 freestyle (20.66), also a school-record and B cut time, while earning second place as part of a pair of relay teams.
Coast Guard had a total of seven second place finishes.
Junior Timmy Berry placed second in both the 100 backstroke (52.21) and the 200 IM with a B cut time of 1:55.0. He also took a pair of second place finishes as part of relay teams and he posted a B cut time in the 100 backstroke, which occurred during the first leg of the 400 medley relay.
The 200 medley relay team of Berry, Sauve, Okorn and freshman Johnson Knox placed second with a school-record time of 1:33.51 while Berry, Okorn, senior Jack Sauve and sophomore Dan Alley combined for a B cut during a second place finish in the 400 medley relay (3:26.28).
Freshman Alex Brown placed second in the 1,650 freestyle (16:36.74) while sophomore Mike Carman placed second in the 200 breaststroke with a B cut time of 2:07.71.
The NCAA Division III Championships will be held Mar. 18-21 at the University of Minnesota.
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