Arizona State vs. Stanford

STANFORD, California, January 20. NO. 3-ranked Stanford (6-0) easily took care of winless Arizona State (0-6) on a cool Friday afternoon as the team's freshmen did the heavy lifting winning 12 of the 13 events en route to a 160-71 win. Stanford posted wins in all 13 events.

Freshmen Kristian Ipsen, Jon Edwards, Robert Hommel and David Nolan each had two wins a piece. Edwards and Nolan were also a part of the winning 400 medley relay team to begin the day.

Edwards won his first individual event of the day, the 200 individual medley with a time of 1:50.96. Edwards kept the freshman streak alive late in the meet, winning the the 200 back after edging senior Eirik Ravnan (1:48.72) with a time of 1:48.67.

Nolan closed out the individual portion of the schedule with an easy win in the 200 breast, at 1:59.35. In the splash and dash, Nolan and sophomore Jake Hartley tied with a time of 21.06 in the 50 freestyle.

Ipsen won his seventh and eighth collegiate diving events of his career, winning the 3-meter with a score of 437.48 and the 1-meter soon after at 417.90.

Hommel took home the title in the 200 free, taking over the lead at the halfway point to win with a time of 1:39.67 over classmate Ethan Hallowell. Hallowell later won the 100 free with a time of 46.67. Hommel also won the 500 free.

The day began with the 400 medley relay, as Stanford's all freshman relay squad, led from the start en route to a time of 3:17.64. Edwards gave Nolan a three second advantage after the first 100 yards, as the freshmen foursome never looked back, finishing five seconds in front of another Cardinal relay team (3:22.43) and eight seconds ahead of ASU's top team (3:25.67).

With wins in each of the first 12 events, the Cardinal freshmen were unable to post a clean sweep. The final freshmen relay team led at the half way point, but could not hold on as Stanford's Mack Montgomery, a junior, took the lead from Ben Holston and the older Cardinal relay team prevailed (3:07.05).

In a top-three battle on Saturday, No. 1-ranked Arizona takes on No. 3-ranked Stanford at an earlier than announced 11 a.m start time.

Stanford sophomores Felicia Lee, Maya DiRado and Andie Taylor each won individual events to lead the No. 6-ranked Cardinal (5-1) over No. 24-ranked Arizona State (5-2) 132.5-97.5 on Friday afternoon.

In what began a streak of six-straight wins for the Cardinal, Lee won the 200 free, followed by Sam Woodward (50 free), DiRado (200 IM), Taylor (200 fly) and freshmen Maddy Schaefer (100 free) and Annemarie Thayer (200 back).

ASU's Tristin Baxter would sandwich the Cardinal's wins with a victory in the 1000 free and later, a win in the 500 free, but at that point the meet was well in the Cardinal's hands.

Stanford piled up points with top-three finishes in each of those six events; with Lee (1:47.79) and Schaefer (1:48.69) finishing 1-2 in the 200 free, Woodward (22.91) leading a 1-2-3 sweep in the 50 free, and DiRado (4:13.09) holding off Taylor and Thayer for the 200 IM title. The Cardinal would also finish with the top two times in the 200 fly with Taylor (2:00.53), the 100 free with Schaefer (49.70) and 200 back with Thayer (1:58.88).

Baxter was one of two Sun Devils to sweep their events.

ASU's Elina Eggers swept the diving competition, winning the 1-meter with a score of 311.18 over Stanford's Stephanie Phipps (301.35) and against in the 3-meter with a score of 339.90 over Phipps (304.05). Cardinal freshman Sloane Brazina was third in both events. ASU's Tristin Baxter also swept the 1000 free and 500 free events.

Stanford and Arizona due battle in a dual meet on Saturday with the men's teams starting at 11 a.m.

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