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No. 9 Men's Swimming and Diving falls to No. 5 N.C. State
11.10.2017 | Men's Swimming and Diving
Longhorns conclude weekend road swing Saturday at No. 22 North Carolina
RALEIGH, N.C. – No. 9 Texas swept the two diving events and added three swimming victories, but host No. 5 N.C. State emerged with a 176-116 dual-meet win Friday evening at N.C. State's Willis R. Casey Aquatic Center.
Texas freshman Jordan Windle opened the meet with a convincing win in the three-meter diving event. Windle took the victory with 465.60 points while his teammate, sophomore Jacob Cornish, placed second at 378.00. Cornish later wrapped up a diving sweep for the Longhorns with his winning mark of 382.12 points on one-meter.
Freshman JohnThomas Larson logged the top finish for Texas in the 1,000-yard freestyle with his third-place mark of 9:16.01. All-America junior Townley Haas added a second-place mark of 1:37.67 in the 200 freestyle, and All-America sophomore Ryan Harty notched a third-place time of 47.72 in the 100 backstroke.
Senior Joseph Schooling posted a third-place mark of 1:46.16 in the 200 butterfly, and his classmate Brett Ringgold took second in the 50 freestyle at 20.04. After a break in the swimming events, Ringgold returned to take third in the 100 freestyle at 43.95.
All-America senior Jonathan Roberts took a close second in the 200 backstroke at 1:44.21. Haas returned to clock a 4:25.42 for second place in the 500 freestyle. Schooling was victorious in the 100 butterfly at 47.17, and freshman Sam Pomajevich added a fifth-place mark of 49.41.
Roberts was victorious in the 200 IM at 1:54.11, and Ringgold, Schooling, sophomore Jacob Huerta and Haas teamed up to take the 400 freestyle relay in 3:01.10.
Texas concludes its weekend road swing Saturday at No. 22 North Carolina (11 a.m. CT).
