COLLEGE STATION, Texas, February 5. NUMBER one Texas won 10 of 13 events and cruised to a 141-100 victory over No. 19 Texas A&M Friday evening in the State Farm Lone Star Showdown at A&M’s Student Rec Center Natatorium.
The win gives Texas another point in the State Farm Lone Star Showdown standings. Texas holds a 6.5-1.5 lead in the season-long, all-sports series between the two schools. Texas men’s swimming and diving has yet to surrender a point in the six seasons of the State Farm Lone Star Showdown.
UT opened the evening with a tight win in the 200-yard medley relay, where freshman Cole Cragin, sophomore Eric Friedland and seniors Hill Taylor and Ricky Berens were victorious in 1 minute, 29.21 seconds. Sophomore Jackson Wilcox followed with a victory in the 1,650 freestyle with a winning mark of 15:10.99.
Senior Dave Walters was challenged by Texas A&M’s Balazs Makany in the 200 freestyle, but Walters, the 2008 NCAA champion in the event, prevailed in 1:38.06. Sophomore Jimmy Feigen tacked on a win in the 50 freestyle in 19.90, and Taylor followed with a win in one of his premier events, the 100 butterfly, in 48.59. Feigen later added a win in the 100 freestyle in 44.35.
Junior Scott Spann led the Horns’ breaststroke contingent with a win at the 100-yard distance in 55.00. Sophomore Neil Caskey edged his teammate, Taylor, in the 100 backstroke and was victorious in 49.16. Junior Bryan Collins notched a win in the 400 individual medley in 3:57.42.
Texas capped the evening with a win in the 200 freestyle relay, where Walters, junior Scott Jostes, Cragin and senior Ben Van Roekel. Junior Matt Cooper paced the Texas diving contingent with second-place finishes in the one-meter event (346.95) and the three-meter event (367.36).
Sophomore Drew Livingston competed Friday at the USA Diving Winter National Championships in Columbus, Ohio and advanced to Sunday’s platform diving finals with a sixth-place total of 399.25 points in the semifinals.
Texas resumes competition on Saturday at SMU. The meet is set for a 5 p.m. Central start.
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