MANSFIELD, Texas, October 23. TEXAS tallied victories in seven of nine events Friday evening and assumed the lead in the team standings after day one of the Southwest Collegiate Plunge, a four-team meet featuring UT, Texas A&M, Missouri and SMU.
Texas leads after day one with 459 points, and Texas A&M sits in second with 380 points. Missouri is in third with 342 points, and SMU sits in fourth place with 327 points.
The Horns opened the meet with a win in the 400-yard medley relay, as freshman Cole Cragin, junior Scott Spann, senior Ricky Berens and sophomore Jimmy Feigen finished in 3 minutes, 20.04 seconds. Sophomore Jackson Wilcox, an All-American in the 500 freestyle, added a victory in that event in 4:29.47.
SMU's Ed Downes picked up a win in the 200 IM before Texas added on another first-place finish in the 100 freestyle, where Feigen was victorious in 45.08. Feigen took second in the 100 freestyle at the 2009 NCAA Championships last March. Sophomore Drew Livingston, the defending NCAA champion in the one-meter diving event, was victorious in the event Friday evening with 383.47 points. Junior Matt Cooper took second with 352.72 points.
Berens chipped in another Longhorns victory in the 100 butterfly, where he clocked 48.35, just off of the NCAA provisional-qualifying time of 48.34. Missouri's Jan Konarzewski took the 200 backstroke before Texas' Spann, competing in his first collegiate meet since last October, took the 100 breaststroke in 56.90. Texas capped the evening with a win in the 200 freestyle relay, as Feigen, and seniors Ben Van Roekel, Peter Jameson and Berens finished in 1:22.42.
The second and final session of the Southwest Collegiate Plunge begins Saturday at 11 a.m. Central at the Mansfield ISD Natatorium.
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Results: Southwest Collegiate Plunge, Day One
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