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No. 4 Men's Swimming and Diving defeats No. 9 Indiana, falls to No. 1 Michigan
10.25.2013 | Men's Swimming and Diving
Freshman Jack Conger posts three victories while junior Clay Youngquist adds a pair.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Texas freshman swimmer Jack Conger notched three victories and junior swimmer Clay Youngquist added two as the fourth-ranked Longhorns defeated No. 9 Indiana and fell to top-ranked defending NCAA champion Michigan Friday evening.
Texas defeated Indiana by a 204-96 margin and fell to the Wolverines by a 166-134 count. Michigan defeated Indiana, 203-97.
The meet kicked off with Texas posting a one-two finish in the one-meter diving event, where freshman Michael Hixon took the win with 373.25 points. Freshman Mark Anderson took second with 372.45 points. Junior Will Chandler placed fourth with 346.65 points. Chandler took a close second behind Indiana's Darian Schmidt in the three-meter event with 396.80 points. Hixon placed second with 379.85 points.
The All-American Youngquist pounded out a win in his signature event, the 200-yard freestyle, in 1 minute, 35.71 seconds. Conger, a gold medalist in the 200m backstroke at last summer's World University Games, swept the backstroke events. The Rockville, Md., native led off by taking the 100 backstroke in 48.36 before winning at the 200-yard distance in 1:45.13.
Youngquist notched his second win of the night in the 100 freestyle and edged Michigan All-American Michael Wynalda in 44.40. Conger produced his third win of the evening and clocked 47.21 to edge Michigan's Dylan Bosch in the 100 butterfly. Freshman Clark Smith took fourth in 48.57.
Sophomore Sam Lewis and the Texas distance contingent took on a strong field in the 500 and 1,000 freestyle events. Lewis put together a strong swim in the 1000 and finished in 9:09.92, a little over two seconds behind U.S. Olympian and NCAA champion Connor Jaeger of Michigan.
The Longhorns resume the regular season on Friday, Nov. 8 when they take on Virginia, Penn State and West Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. In the meantime, Texas will join Michigan and Indiana to compete in an unscored exhibition meet Saturday morning in Bloomington.
The Texas divers will host the UT Diving Invitational from Nov. 21-23 at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center before the annual Texas Invitational inhabits the TSC from Dec. 5-7.
