BALTIMORE – For the first time, four Baltimore schools convened in an aquatic center, as UMBC, Johns Hopkins and Towson visited Loyola-Maryland's Mangione Pool for the 2023 Thomas Murphy Invitational.

Retriever freshman diver Andy Vines highlighted an outstanding early season effort by the young Retrievers, as he won both the 1-meter and 3-meter boards and was named the Diver of the Meet. On Saturday, Vines captured the 1-meter diving completion with a score of 276.80. He came back Sunday and easily outdistanced the competition on the higher board. His sterling morning score was 314.80 and he captured the title by nearly 50 points with a total of 287.35 in the finals.  

"The divers had a great weekend," said Head Diving Coach Jeff Fisher. We saw personal bests in total points per dive and several new dives performed. Andy was only a few points away from two NCAA Zones cuts. We are making great progress at this point in the season and I am looking forward to more!"

In the pool, junior Oliver Gassmann set a meet record and triumphed in the 100 yard butterfly, posting a mark of 47.20.

"What a great weekend of Baltimore swimming and diving," said Head Swimming Coach Matt Donovan. "All four teams really pushed each other in every event. I am extremely impressed with how we performed. The number of season and lifetime bests that we put up these last three days in incredibly impressive. It's a great time to be a Dawg."

Senior Dani Nicusan earned silvers in both of the breaststroke events.  

Friday's Highlights

• Senior Bode Neale placed fourth in the 50 yard freestyle (20.95).
• In a stacked field, senior Dani Nicusan was edged for third place and finished fifth in the 200 IM with a time of 1:50.83.

 
Saturday's Highlights

• Vines set a meet record by recording a mark of 276.80 and capturing the 1-meter diving completion.  
• Freshman James Tao captured third place in the 400 IM, touching the wall in 4:04.18.
• From the morning prelims to the finals, Nicusan improved from fourth to second place in the 100 yard breaststroke, touching at 54.05.  

Sunday's Highlights

• Nicusan improved by nearly six seconds from the prelims to the finals in the 200 yard breaststroke and earned silver in the time of 1:59.39.   

The host Greyhounds won the meet with 3633 points, followed by Towson (2175.5),  Johns Hopkins (1682) and UMBC (1641.5).  

UMBC has a week off before taking on host VMI, along with America East foe NJIT and UNC Asheville on Saturday, Nov. 11 in Lexington, Va.