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No. 5 Women's Swimming and Diving overpowers No. 12 Auburn, 175-117
01.08.2018 | Women's Swimming and Diving
Longhorns remain unbeaten in six dual meets this season.
AUSTIN, Texas – No. 5 Texas (6-0) won 14 of 16 events and ran away with a 175-117 victory over No. 12 Auburn Monday afternoon at UT's Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
Texas opened the meet with first-, third- and fourth-place finishes from its one-meter divers. Redshirt junior Murphy Bromberg won the event with 288.75 points, and sophomore Alison Gibson placed third with 282.98 points. Junior Sofia Rauzi took fourth with 269.33 points.
The Longhorns opened the swimming portion of the meet with a one-two finish in the 200-yard medley relay. Sophomores Claire Adams and Kennedy Lohman joined redshirt junior Mimi Schneider and senior Rebecca Millard to take the win in 1 minute, 40.52 seconds. UT juniors Quinn Carrozza, Olivia Anderson, Remedy Rule and Brooke Hansen followed closely behind at 1:40.52.
Freshman Evie Pfeifer gave the Horns their third win in as many events with her mark of 9:57.48 in the 1,000 freestyle. Junior Joanna Evans, the school record in the 500- and 1,650-yard freestyle events, took second at 10:02.40. Carrozza led a one-two Texas finish in the 200 freestyle with her winning mark of 1:47.44.
Adams staked the Horns to another win in the 100 backstroke, where she won with room to spare at 52.56. Likewise, Anderson claimed the 100 breaststroke by a wide margin at 1:01.10. Her classmate Hansen added a third-place mark of 1:03.21. Auburn picked up its first win of the day in the 200 butterfly, but sophomore Lauren Case joined Rule to post second- and third-place finishes.
Millard was victorious in the 50 freestyle at 22.80 before junior Meghan O'Brien finished off a Longhorns sweep of the diving events with her three-meter win at 322.65 points. Bromberg, Gibson and Rauzi added second-, third- and fourth-place finishes, respectively. Adams posted her second win of the day with her mark of 49.29 in the 100 freestyle. Millard, Hansen and junior Anelise Diener claimed the second (49.47), third (49.89) and fourth (50.38) spots.
Carrozza notched her second win of the meet with her 1:55.26 in the 200 backstroke. Anderson finished off a sweep of the breaststroke events with her win at 200 yards in 2:14.63. Freshman Logan Shiller posted her first win as a Longhorn and outdistanced the field in the 500 freestyle at 4:56.45. Her classmate Peyton Quattlebaum added a third-place mark of 5:07.92.
Texas declined its points the rest of the way, but nevertheless, Pfeifer was victorious in the 400 IM at 4:17.93. The Horns capped the meet with their win in the 200 freestyle relay at 1:32.86.
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