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No. 1 Men's Swimming and Diving defeats Texas A&M, 108-90
02.06.2009 | Men's Swimming and Diving
Feb. 6, 2009
AUSTIN, Texas -- No. 1 Texas (6-1) captured 10 of 11 events on its way to a 108-90 victory over Texas A&M Friday evening in the State Farm Lone Star Showdown at UT's Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
The victory earns one point for Texas in the State Farm Lone Star Showdown standings. Texas holds a 6.0-2.0 lead in the season-long, all-sports competition between the two schools.
UT opened the evening with a win in the 200-yard medley relay, where junior Hill Taylor, senior Agustin Magruder, junior Ricky Berens and sophomore Jonathan Jackson were victorious in 1:29.52. Texas followed with a first through fourth finish in the 200 freestyle. Senior Michael Klueh took the event in 1:37.10, and freshman Jackson Wilcox took second in 1:38.20. Junior Ben Van Roekel took third in 1:40.24.
Freshman Drew Livingston enjoyed a dominant performance in the one-meter diving event. Livingston claimed the event with 413.85 points and topped his nearest competitor, Texas A&M senior All-American Eric Sehn, by over 60 points. Sophomore Matt Cooper placed third with 348.53 points. Magruder followed with a win in the 100 breaststroke in 55.94, and freshman Eric Friedland took second in 56.73.
Sophomore Bryan Collins led a one-two UT finish in the 200 IM, where he took first in 1:49.23 and edged junior Dave Walters, who finished in 1:49.49. Wilcox claimed the following event, the 500 freestyle, in 4:28.61. Senior Sean Patton placed second in 4:30.12.
Klueh notched his second win of the night in the 100 backstroke in 49.03. Jackson took second in 50.03, and sophomore Brian Wilson took third in 50.23. Swimming the event as an exhibition, Berens claimed the 100 freestyle in 44.95, while Van Roekel took second in 45.04. Taylor, an All-American a season ago in the 100 butterfly, claimed the event in 48.16. Sophomore Scott Jostes took second in 49.28.
The Aggies' Sehn scored A&M's lone victory in the three-meter diving event, where Livingston took second and Cooper took third. The Longhorns wrapped up the meet with a win in the 200 freestyle relay. Freshman Donald Sutton teamed up with Klueh, Walters and Robertson to finish in 1:23.01.
Texas returns to the Jamail Texas Swimming Center on Saturday to meet No. 20 SMU in the regular-season finale at 4 p.m. Central. UT will honor its senior class beginning at 3:45 p.m. A free live video stream for the meet will be available at TexasSports.com.
