BATON ROUGE, La. January 21. THE 13th-ranked Texas A&M women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s swimming & diving team earned a 168-126 win over Louisiana State at the LSU Natatorium on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The Aggies (9-3) won 12 of 14 events in the pool including both relays. Seven different Aggies won events with three swimmers winning two events each.<\/p>\n
Senior Erin Briskie (Dallas) turned in one of her better meets of the season, sweeping both the 100 and 200-yard breaststrokes. Briskie set season-best times of 1:04.19 in the 100 breast and 2:07.20 in a second-place finish in the 200-yard individual medley. Briskie won the 200 breast in a near-season-best of 2:18.66.<\/p>\n
Sophomore Jenni Stratton (Portland, Ore.) swept both distance freestyle events against the Tigers. Stratton won the second event of the meet, the 1,000 freestyle (10:15.51), and added a win in the 500 free (5:03.53).<\/p>\n
Freshman Julia Wilkinson (Stratford, Ontario) won two events against LSU as well. Wilkinson, who has earned wins in every meet for the Aggies this month, won the 100 backstroke in 56.85. Wilkinson also won the 200 individual medley in her first appearance in the event in 2006 in a time of 2:05.18.<\/p>\n
Junior Jenna Wheeler (Ft. Smith, Ark.) grabbed her first win of the season in the 200 butterfly by outlasting LSU\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Jenna Molinski, 2:07.07 to 2:07.60.<\/p>\n
Freshman Sally Ranzau (Alpharetta, Ga.) captured her first collegiate win in the 200 back by holding off LSU freshman Berit Aljand, twin sister of A&M freshman Triin. Ranzau hit the wall in a time of 2:03.98 to grab the top spot in the event.<\/p>\n
A&M\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Aljand (Tallinn, Estonia) won the 50 freestyle in 23.72 with junior Rebecca Sturdy (Anacortes, Wash.) second in 23.86. Freshman Codie Hansen (Arlington, Texas) led a 1-2-3-4 Aggie finish the 200-yard freestyle in 1:52.60.<\/p>\n
The Aggies opened the meet a win in the 200-yard medley relay. The group of Wilkinson, Briskie, Christine Marshall (Newport News, Va.), and Hansen won in a clocking of 3:49.95. A&M also closed the meet with a win in the 200 free relay. Britney Pesek (Missouri City, Texas), Marshall, Aljand, and Sturdy capped the 16-event meet with a first-place time of 1:34.19.<\/p>\n
LSU outscored the Aggies 32-0 in the two diving events. The Aggies were without the services of its divers, due to injuries, for the fourth straight meet.<\/p>\n
The Aggies will take next weekend off before facing North Texas in College Station on Senior Day, Saturday, Feb. 4, for their final dual meet of the 2005-06 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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