Aquamen Topple Green; Countryman, Miao Star

The still-undefeated men's swim team racked up its fifth win of the season Saturday afternoon at Blodgett Pool, sending the waterlogged Big Green back to Hanover to dry out after an 88-25 humiliation.

Sophomore Larry Countryman and freshman Mike Miao paced the Crimson with two wins apiece. Countryman captured the gold in both the 500- and 1000-yd. freestyle races, with Miao scoring his double in the 50 and the 100.

Two other frosh, Julian Bott and Courtney Roberts, nabbed a victory each. Bott turned in a 1:57.01 for the 200 backstroke, cruising home just ahead of co-captain Bobby Hackett.

Sibling Rivalry

Roberts nipped Dartmouth's Jim Chapman in the 200 individual medley. The Dartmouth swimmer, who teams with identical twin Tim and older brother Bill to give the Big Green credibility, led coming out of the turn on the freestyle leg, but began to lag in time for Roberts to pull out in front.

Sophomore Ted Chappell cleaned up with a 1:57.17 in the 200-yd. fly. Returning to swim unofficially in the 200-yd. backstroke, Chappell once again demonstrated an eagerness to polish his strokes for the 400 IM.

After a rolling start on the breaststroke leg of the medley relay, which resulted in the Crimson's disqualification and only loss of the afternoon, Jim Carbone was looking for a way to make amends. The sophomore from Utica, N.Y., did just that when he grabbed a win in the 200-yd. breaststroke.

Hackett posted an easy victory in the 200 free while making his first bid to qualify for the NCAAs. His 1:39.73 fell 0.6 seconds short. Upcoming sprint workouts should give Hackett the speed he needs to make the cut in the Crimson's next meet, February 7 at Princeton.

At Princeton, the Crimson will attempt to average last year's 65-48 loss at the hands of the Tigers, the only loss marring the aquamen's near-perfect record since Joe Bernal took over the program at the beginning of the 1977-78 campaign.

THE NOTEBOOK: With the Crimson originally slated to meet Brown in Providence on the first day of reading period, Bernal ran up a hefty phone bill calling from Hawaii to reschedule the meet to a convenient date. As luck would have it, January 6--the day the team planned to arrive back from its Christmas training trip--proved the only available day.

At 6:30 p.m., Hawaii time the night before, 19 swimmers, two managers and Bernal boarded a jam-packed World Airways flight bound for the mainland. Eleven hours and two stopovers later, the Crimson arrived in Newark. After securing a bus, Bernal selected five sleepy and very suntanned swimmers and headed for Providence. There the travelers joined five members of the Harvard squad who didn't make the training trip and gave Brown a 69-44 beating.

HARVARD 88, DARTMOUTH 25

at Blodgett Pool

400-yd. medley relay--1. HARVARD 3:36.27 (Bott 54.8, Carbone 57.9, Meier 51.3, Miao 52.3); 2.

Dartmouth 3:38.32 (Chapman 55.9, Whitaker 61.0, Goldbloom 51.8, G. Chapman 49.6)

1000-yd. freestyle--1. Countryman (H) 9:25.54, 2. Leckman (H) 9:47.61

One-meter diving--1. Mule (H) 258.70; 2. Chaudoin (D) 236.65

200-yd. freestyle--1. Hackett (H) 1:39.73; 2. Seppey (H) 1:45.17

50-yd. freestyle--1. Miao (H) 21.65; 2. Seelen (H) 21.76

200-yd. individual medley--1. Roberts, C. (H) 1:59.69; 2. Chapman, J. (D) 2:00.20

Three-meter dive--1. I lllg (H) 285.40; 2. Mule (H) 262.70

200-yd. butterfly--1. Chappell (H) 1:51.17; 2. Maximoff (H) 1:55.33

100-yd. freestyle--1. Miao (H) 47.44; 2. Seelen (H) 48.18

200-yd. backstroke--1. Bott (H) 1:57.01; 2. Hackett (H) 1:58.46

500-yd. freestyle--1. Countryman (H) 4:37.00; 2. Sappey (H) 4:49.25

200-yd. breaststroke--1. Carbone (H) 2:11.18; 2. Dixon (D) 2:13.85

400-yd. freestyle relay--1. HARVARD 3:14.38 (Chappell 49.9, Hackett 46.5, Seelen 48.6, Verdin 49.4); 2. HARVARD +16.21 (Coglin 49:7, Lockman 48.6, Countryman 48.9, Maximoff 49.0)