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Women's Swimming and Diving falls to Texas A&M, 152-148
10.18.2013 | Women's Swimming and Diving
Longhorns sweep the diving events and add six swimming victories.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Texas senior Lily Moldenhauer paced the Longhorns with two victories, and UT added six additional wins in a 152-148 defeat to Texas A&M Friday evening at the Aggies' Student Rec Center Natatorium.
The Aggies led off the meet with a win in the 200-yard medley relay before UT junior Kaitlin Pawlowicz answered with a narrow win in the 1,000-yard freestyle. Pawlowicz was victorious in 9 minutes, 50.89 seconds, three one-hundredths of a second ahead of London Olympian Cammile Adams of A&M.
Senior Samantha Tucker scored Texas' second straight win in the 200 freestyle where she won handily in 1:47.95. Freshman Madisyn Cox took third in 1:49.88. Moldenhauer paced a one-two Texas finish in the 100 backstroke with an impressive early-season time of 53.48. Freshman Tasija Karosas followed closely behind at 54.28 before later picking up a victory in the 200 backstroke. The Stowe, Vt., native took the victory in 1:57.36.
Texas collected 14 points in the three-meter diving event, as junior Emma Ivory-Ganja, an All-America transfer from UCLA, was victorious with 338.40 points. Sophomore Meghan Houston took third with 325.65 points. Houston finished off a Texas sweep of the diving events with a winning mark of 309.15 in the one-meter event. Ivory-Ganja took second with 288.00 points.
Moldenhauer picked up her second win of the night in the 100 butterfly, where she prevailed in 54.15 and edged A&M All-America senior Paige Miller.
One night after winning three individual events in the Longhorns' home win over North Carolina, Cox picked up where she left off in the 200 individual medley, where she took the win in 2:00.78.
Texas held a 144-139 lead heading into the meet's final event, the 400 freestyle relay. A Longhorns relay victory would have sealed the team victory for Texas while second and third-place finishes would have secured a tie.
However, A&M won the relay to collect 11 points and took third place with its "B" relay to earn two additional points. UT's four points from its second-place relay left it just short of A&M in the final tally, 152-148.
Texas continues its road swing next weekend (Oct. 25-26) when it heads to Bloomington, Ind., to take on Michigan and host Indiana.
