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No. 8 Women's Swimming and Diving tops No. 14 Auburn, 162.5-132.5
01.09.2014 | Women's Swimming and Diving
Longhorns await Georgia on Saturday at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
AUSTIN, Texas – No. 8 Texas (8-2) won nine events and claimed a 168.5-129.5 victory over No. 14 Auburn Thursday afternoon at UT's Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
The Texas divers opened the meet with the first of their two wins on the day. Sophomore Meghan Houston led a one-two-three Texas finish in the one-meter diving event with 293.48 points. Senior Maren Taylor took a close second with 288.75 points while junior Emma Ivory-Ganja placed third with 279.83 points.
Texas cruised to victory in the 200-yard medley relay, where senior Lily Moldenhauer, junior Gretchen Jaques, freshman Brynne Wong and senior Ellen Lobb finished in 1 minute, 40.47 seconds. A pair of Longhorns seniors finished atop the 200 freestyle, as Alex Hooper took the win in 1:48.25. Samantha Tucker followed in second at 1:49.44.
Longhorns took the top-four places in the 100 breaststroke, as Jaques emerged with the win in 1:01.78. Freshman Madisyn Cox was the runner-up in 1:02.63, and junior Skylar Smith placed third in 1:03.80. Shortly after anchoring the 200 medley relay to victory, Lobb claimed the 50 freestyle in 22.85.
Taylor finished off Texas' sweep of the diving events and took top honors in the three-meter event with 345.90 points. Freshman Murphy Bromberg finished as the runner-up with 323.63 points.
Cox registered the first of her two wins on the day in the 200 breaststroke with a time of 2:15.34 that fell under the NCAA provisional-qualifying standard. Smith took second for the Horns in 2:18.12. Better known for her excellence in the 100 and 200 freestyles, Tucker showed off her range in the 500 freestyle and took the win in 4:53.19 and edged teammate Kelsey LeNeave, who clocked 4:53.69.
Cox posted her second win in the 400 individual medley and cruised to victory in 4:16.61. The Lubbock native has chopped over six seconds off of her personal best in the 400 IM in only four months with the Longhorns.
With the team victory in hand, Texas declined its point allotment in the meet's final event, the 200 freestyle relay.
Texas welcomes another Southeastern Conference foe on Saturday when it hosts Georgia. The meet opens at 9:30 a.m. CT with the 1,650 freestyle. Longhorn Network will pick up live coverage of the meet beginning at 10 a.m. CT.
