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No. 2 Men's Swimming and Diving tops Arizona, 162-121
01.27.2017 | Men's Swimming and Diving
Horns host Wildcats in Senior Day exhibition meet Saturday morning.
AUSTIN, Texas – No. 2 Texas (5-3) won 13 of 16 events and finished off a 162-121 victory over No. 17 Arizona Friday evening at UT's Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
Texas opened the meet with a win in the 200-yard medley relay where sophomore John Shebat joined senior Will Licon and Olympic gold medalists Joseph Schooling and Jack Conger to finish in 1 minute, 27.17 seconds.
Olympic gold medalist Townley Haas delivered the Longhorns their second consecutive victory with a mark of 9:21.22 in the 1,000 freestyle, and his Olympics teammate, Clark Smith claimed the 200 freestyle at 1:37.09. Haas and Smith helped the U.S. to gold in the 4x200m freestyle relay at the Rio Olympics.
Licon returned for the 100 breaststroke and made it look easy on his way to victory in 53.31. The El Paso native broke Brendan Hansen's school record at 100 yards while setting NCAA and American records in the 200-yard event at the 2016 NCAA Championships.
Conger added another win for the Horns in the 50 freestyle at 19.91 seconds and Schooling swept the sprint freestyle events for Texas by winning at 100 yards in 43.49. Junior Brett Ringgold took second at 44.23. Junior Jonathan Roberts completed a rare swim in the 200 breaststroke but won the event anyway in 2:01.60.
Freshman Grayson Campbell claimed the three-meter diving event with 436.88 points while senior Mark Anderson took second with 342.38 points. Anderson won the one-meter event with 393.90 points.
Schooling returned to post his second win of the day in the 100 butterfly at 46.64 before Shebat claimed the 200 IM at 1:48.36. Texas finished off the meet with a victory in the 400 freestyle relay where senior P.J. Dunne joined Roberts, Licon and Schooling to finish in 2:57.77.
Texas hosts Arizona in an exhibition meet Saturday at 10 a.m. with live coverage on Longhorn Network. UT will recognize its 10-man senior class Saturday at approximately 9:35 a.m. C
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