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TROY, N.Y. - The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) men's swimming & diving teams entered the final event needing a win and at least a third place finish and the Engineers did just that in defeating Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) 151-148 in a dual meet at Robison Pool. A 188-113 win by the RPI women gave the home teams a sweep.

Trailing 144-138 going into the 200 free relay, Rensselaer got a win by less than a second from the foursome of John Alberta, Andrew Klobucher, Brandon Koo and Richard Dong. WPI had the second place team but RPI's Charly Blazy, Noah Pan, Alexander Sullivan and Justin Chang finished third, two seconds ahead of a second WPI team, for the point swing the home Engineers needed. 

With the victory, Rensselaer improves to 3-0 in dual meets and extends its winning streak to 12 consecutive over the course of the past three years. RPI's women are now 2-1 and have won 14 of its last 15 dual meets.

The Engineers had numerous multiple first place finishers, including four each from Danielle Sauve and Amanda Wang and three from Dong, Shanny Lin and Siena Sara.

Sauve captured the 200 free (1:58.85), 50 free (25.14), 500 free (5:19.96) and was part of the 200 free relay team (1:41.89). Wang also swam on the victorious relay team, while also finishing first in the winning 200 medley relay team (1:51.90), the 100 backstroke (59.85) and 200 backstroke (2:11.30).

Lin and Sara were part of the 200 medley relay team that began the day with a win. Lin went on to win the 200 butterfly with an NCAA B-cut time of 2:04.84 and the 100 fly in 58.55. Sara was first to touch the wall in the 100 breaststroke (1:09.98) and the 200 breaststroke (2:29.33).

Jessica Sauve won in the 100 free (55.83) and the 400 individual medley (4:47.66).

In addition to his win in the final relay, Dong also won the 100 breaststroke (59.39) and 200 breaststroke (2:11.88). Dan Hendricks enjoyed success in both the 1000 free (10:13.54) and 500 free (4:58.54), while Alex Chused had wins off both the 3-meter (252.00) and 1-meter (272.65) diving boards.

Rensselaer has two dual meets next weekend, traveling to Vassar College on Saturday before hosting Hartwick College on Sunday.