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No. 6 Women's Swimming and Diving falls at No. 2 Georgia, 163.5-136.5
01.10.2015 | Women's Swimming and Diving
Longhorns win eight events in Athens, split road swing against SEC foes.
ATHENS, Ga. – No. 6 Texas (6-2) won eight events and completed sweeps of the relays and diving events, but No. 2 Georgia (9-0) claimed a 163.5-136.5 win over the Longhorns' Saturday at UGA's Gabrielsen Natatorium.
Texas opened the meet by claiming the 200-yard medley relay, as sophomore Tasija Karosas, senior Gretchen Jaques and freshmen Mimi Schneider and Rebecca Millard took the win in 1 minute, 39.93 seconds.
Senior Kaitlin Pawlowicz defeated the nation's fastest swimmer in the 1,000 freestyle, Georgia's Amber McDermott, and handily won the event in 9:43.82. Georgia claimed the lead in the next event as the Bulldogs' Jordan Mattern out-touched Madisyn Cox in the 200 freestyle by one one-hundredth of a second. Cox settled for second at 1:47.16.
Senior Sarah Denninghoff led a one-two Texas finish in the 100 backstroke and took the win in 53.50, an impressive January time coming out of rigorous holiday training. Karosas followed in second at 53.79. Jaques posted the first of two wins on the day in the 100 breaststroke at 1:00.33. The Californian posted the nation's second-fastest time in the event last month when she cleared 59 seconds at the Texas Invitational.
Senior Emma Ivory-Ganja registered the first of two Texas diving wins on the day with her total of 364.05 points on the three-meter board. Junior Meghan Houston (342.45), sophomore Murphy Bromberg (287.85) and junior Kristina Hoffmann (275.10) rounded out a one-two-three-four Texas finish. The Longhorns also took four of the top-five spots in the one-meter contest as Houston edged UGA's Olivia Ball with 309.23 points. Ivory-Ganja took third with 302.85 points.
Jaques trailed at the 150-yard mark in the 200 breaststroke but out-split UGA's Annie Zhu by over a second on the final 50 yards to win in 2:12.58, good for a NCAA "B" cut.
The Longhorns won the meet's final event, the 400 freestyle relay, as Jaques, Denninghoff, Karosas and senior Kelsey LeNeave finished in 3:19.80.
Texas resumes dual-meet competition in three weeks when it hosts Arizona and SMU.
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