San Jose State Beats Cal State Bakersfield, 188-160

BAKERSFIELD, California, January 6. THE San Jose State University women's swimming and diving team took 11 of 14 individual events, including three by Lauren Mar and two by Amanda Carr, en route to a 188-160 dual meet victory over Cal State Bakersfield at the Hillman Aquatics Center on Saturday, January 6.

San Jose State improves its record to 2-7 on the year with one dual meet left. Cal State Bakersfield, the alma mater of second-year Spartan head coach Sage Hopkins, drops to 1-2.

Mar started off her string of individual victories with a first-place effort in her first 200 freestyle swim of the season, in 1:57.33. Mar then swept the sprint freestyle events, taking the 50 in 24.56 before touching first in the 100 in 53.10.

Carr swept the distance freestyles, winning both the 1000 (10:34.05) and 500 (5:11.78) as the only Spartan entrant in either event.

Other San Jose State individual first-place finishes were turned in by Ashley Vrieze in the 100 backstroke (59.63), Hannah Tringham in the 200 butterfly (2:08.72), Katey Nelson in the 200 backstroke (2:09.22) and Amanda Collier in the 200 breaststroke (2:30.13). Tarolyn Robertson (59.98) and Beste Erener (2:13.57) each produced the first dual meet wins of their collegiate careers in the 100 butterfly and 200 individual medley, respectively.

Collier (1:10.49) and Lesley Ouellette (1:10.71) went 2-3 in the 100 breaststroke, with Ouellette finishing second behind her fellow senior and tri-captain in the 200 (2:32.67). Soraya Azarfar and Jennifer Gonzalez finished 2-3 on the one-meter diving board, with Gonzalez turning in a second-place effort on the three-meter board with Azarfar not competing in the latter.

Another Spartan swim of note was Kerstin Fenton's season-best 2:14.88 in the 200 individual medley to finish fourth behind Erener.

The Spartan ‘A' team of Vrieze, Ouellette, Robertson and Mar won the 200 medley relay to begin the meet in 1:50.63. The SJSU ‘A' team of Vrieze, Ksenija Poljak, Ouellette and Robertson was second in the 200 freestyle relay at the end of the afternoon, in 1:42.33.

The only events that San Jose State did not win over Cal State Bakersfield, included the 100 breaststroke, which Amy Mitchell took in 1:09.35, and both diving events, which went to Meliane Sloan. The Roadrunners, former members of the NCAA Division II who are in the process of moving up to Division I, also won the 200 freestyle relay impressively in a Division I consideration qualifying time of 1:33.40.

Erin Hunter of UC Santa Cruz had the top 200 breaststroke time of anybody on the day, touching in 2:27.79. UC Santa Cruz also took part in the dual, but its meet with SJSU was not scored and thus did not count on the records of either side.

"I was very pleased with our performance today," remarked Hopkins. "Cal State Bakersfield has a strong program. We had a goal coming in of winning 12 of the 14 swimming events, and we did that. We also set a goal to finish no worse than second on both diving boards, and we accomplished that as well. It was a very cold meet, and our times were good considering the weather conditions.

"Lauren Mar was our top performer for this meet. She contributed to the winning 200 medley relay, and won three individual events."

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