Aquamen Bruise Bruins, 70-43

The Harvard men's swimming team won its third meet of the season last night, defeating Brown, 70-43, at Smith Swimming Center in Providence, R.I.

The Crimson (3-0 overall, 3-0 ECAC, 2-0 Ivy League) led the meet from start to finish, taking the first two events and never allowing the Bruins to come closer than a 10-point margin throughout the contest.

Harvard triumphed in nine of the 11 swimming events, including both relays. Brown managed to keep the score respectable with one-two finishes in both the 1- and 3-meter diving contests.

Juniors David Berkoff and John Pearson helped pace the Crimson victory, each winning two individual events. Berkoff registered first-place showings in the 200-yd. Individual medley and the 200 backstroke. Pearson was the champion of the distance races, finishing ahead of the field in both the 1000 freestyle and the 500 freestyle.

Other Harvard victors included junior Bill Bird and sophomores Keith Kaplan and Scott Hoy. Bird's time of 1:54.69 was good for the win in the 200 butterfly, while Kaplan won his third 50-yd. freestyle in as many tries this season with a time of 21.73 seconds.

Hoy triumphed in the 200 breaststroke and teamed up with Bird, Co-Captain Daniel Simkowitz and senior Jim Kornish to take the 400 medley relay.

In the other relay event, the 400-yd. freestyle relay, Kaplan, Kornish, Bird and junior Chris Smith proved to be the winning combination for the Crimson, posting a first-place time of 3:12.27.

The only Brown firsts came from Eric Anton, who emerged victorious in both the 100 and 200 freestyle races.

Anton's time of 48.15 seconds in the 100 freestyle enabled him to edge Kornish, who finished second in 48.57 seconds. In the 200 freestyle, Anton's 1:44.96 just beat Crimson freshman Ken Johnson, whose 1:45.65 time was good enough for second place.

After swimming three contests within a span of five days--meets in which they outscored the competition by a 230-108 margin--Harvard now gets a well-deserved respite. The Crimson has an off weekend before swimming Army at West Point December 13.

The Cadets have their big Navy meet this weekend, so they'll be ready for the Crimson. And, although the Harvard-Army meet may not be as big as the aquamen's meet with Princeton in February, it promises to be closer than the squad's first three meets of the 1986-'87 campaign.