IVIES IN TOKYO - DAY 6 RECAP

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TOKYO -- Day six of action in Tokyo featured an Ivy versus Ivy Olympic showdown occurred at the Saitama Super Arena between Columbia’s Maodo Lo and Yale’s Miye Oni. Lo scored 13 points and had nine assists to help lead Germany to their first win in Tokyo over Nigeria. Germany and Nigeria ended the second and third quarter tied, but Nigeria was unable to capitalize allowing Germany the 99-92 win. Oni will be back on the court Saturday, July 31 at 12:40 a.m. against Italy. Lo will take the court shortly after in a final pool play match against Australia at 4:20 a.m.

Dartmouth hooper Isalys Quiñones made her Olympic debut with Puerto Rico early yesterday morning. The Puerto Rican team struggled to find their groove as China led the entire game resulting in a 55-97 loss. Quiñones will be back in action Wednesday, July 29 at 9:00 p.m. against Belgium.

Harvard’s Eli Dershwitz assisted the U.S. men’s sabre team to a 7th place finish after falling to Iran in classifications 5-8. The U.S. team opened the tournament with a 36-45 loss to Hungary. Dershwitz had a combined touch score of 9. The U.S. then moved into their match against Iran to settle 6-7 placements. The U.S. suffered another 36-45 loss. Dershwitz had a combined touch score of 10.

Dartmouth’s Madison Hughes and the U.S. men’s rugby sevens team lost a battle to Great Britain in the quarterfinals. Shortly after, Captain Hughes led his teammates to a 21-14 win over Team Canada in the 5-8 placement round. The U.S. team will make one last Olympic appearance in the 5th place finals against South Africa on Wednesday, July 28 at 4 a.m.

Over at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, Brown’s Jagger Stephens finished second for Guam in heat two of the men’s 100m freestyle.

Princeton and Yale double scull duo Gevvie Stone and Kristina Wagner took home an impressive fifth place finish for the U.S. after racing a Romanian boat that secured an Olympic record.

The all-Ivy U.S. men’s four boat – Brown’s Anders Weiss, Cornell’s Michael Grady and Harvard’s Andrew Reed and Clark Dean— also secured a fifth-place finish after battling Yale’s Sholto Carnegie and his British teammates. Carnegie finished just above his Ivy counterparts in fourth place.

Harvard’s Juri-Mikk Udam and his Estonian quadruple sculls crew finished sixth in Final A.

Two Tigers, Hannah Scott and Claire Collins, secured seventh place finishes last night. Scott and the Great Britain quadruple sculls team dominated Final B, which included Brown’s Cicely Madden and her U.S. teammates. Great Britain won by 3.86 seconds over New Zealand, France and United States- who finished tenth.

Collins and the United States four had their best time of the Olympics to win Final B over Denmark, Romania and Canada.

Yale’s Jack Lopas helped New Zealand finish eighth in the men’s double sculls.

Columbia’s Jake Buczek and the Canadian men’s four crew raced Yale’s Andrin Gulich and Paul Jacquot’s Swiss crew. The Canadians found an eighth-place finish with their fastest time of the Games, while the Swiss finished ninth.

More Ivies will compete for medals tonight as Princeton’s Fred Vystavel will compete in the 2- A Final at 8:19 p.m. Yale incoming Christina Bourmpou will follow-up in her Greek 2- boat in the A Final at 8:30 p.m. and Dartmouth’s Molly Reckford will race the U.S. women’s lightweight double sculls boat in the A Final on at 9:10 p.m.

Cornell’s Tracey Eisser will race the U.S. 2- boat in the B Final at 7:40 p.m.

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