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No. 2 Women's Swimming and Diving knocks off No. 12 N.C. State, 184-116
11.10.2017 | Women's Swimming and Diving
Longhorns win 13 of 16 events, remain unbeaten heading into Saturday’s meet at No. 21 North Carolina.
RALEIGH, N.C. – No. 2 Texas (4-0) won 13 of 16 events and overpowered No. 12 N.C. State on its way to a 184-116 victory over the Wolfpack Friday evening at N.C. State's Willis R. Casey Aquatic Center.
Texas opened the meet with a strong performance from its diving contingent, as junior Murphy Bromberg claimed the one-meter event with 301.95 points. UT added three third-place points from junior Sofia Rauzi (277.80) and two more points from NCAA champion Alison Gibson, who took fourth (274.43). Gibson locked up the diving sweep for the Longhorns with her winning total of 348.90 points on three-meter. Bromberg followed in second with 332.92 points and Rauzi placed third at 292.50.
The Longhorns opened the meet's swimming portion with a convincing win in the 400-yard medley relay, where sophomore Claire Adams, junior Olivia Anderson, junior Remedy Rule and senior Rebecca Millard were victorious in 3 minutes, 36.13 seconds. All-America junior Joanna Evans led the Horns in the 1,000 freestyle with her second-place mark of 9:40.99.
Texas owned the 200 freestyle and took the top three spots in the final standings. Rule led the way in 1:48.16 while her classmate Quinn Carrozza finished just a hundredth of a second behind in 1:48.17. Freshman Evie Pfeifer rounded out the top-three in 1:48.44. Adams scored another win for the Longhorns with her 53.57 in the 100 backstroke.
Anderson led the 100 breaststroke from start-to-finish and took the win nearly three seconds clear of N.C. State's Lindsay Morrow in 1:03.88. Sophomore Lauren Case led another one-two-three Texas finish, this time in the 200 butterfly. Case took the win in 1:59.86 while freshmen Victoria Edwards and Emily Reese took second (2:00.54) and third (2:00.96), respectively, as Texas opened up a sizable lead on the Wolfpack.
Anderson added another win for the Longhorns with her 2:13.85 in the 200 breaststroke. The Minnesotan trailed N.C. State's Julia Poole with 50 yards to go, but she out-split Poole by half a second down the stretch to take the win. Evans put up another victory for Texas with her 4:42.28 in the 500 freestyle.
Texas clinched the meet victory over N.C. State with its 15 points in the 100 butterfly. Rule completed a Longhorns sweep of the butterfly events with her winning mark of 54.13 while Reese placed second at 54.28.
Pfeifer held off N.C. State's Hannah Moore in the final 50 yards of the 400 IM and came away with an impressive win in 4:13.14. Texas capped the meet with a victory in the 200 freestyle relay, where Adams, Millard, junior Brooke Hansen and Rule finished in 1:30.71.
Texas wraps its road trip on Saturday with a visit to No. 21 North Carolina (11 a.m. CT).
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