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The No. 7 Auburn men made a statement against No. 17 Wisconsin and Florida State. The Tigers downed the Badgers 187-133 and the Seminoles 223-76.<\/p>\n
Coming off a loss to No. 9 Florida, the No. 11 Auburn women fell to No. 17 Wisconsin by a score of 158-141. The Tigers\u00a0were able to\u00a0take down Florida State, winning 234-65.<\/p>\n
A close\u00a0women’s 200-yard medley relay started the day. Wisconsin out touched Auburn by only 12-tenths of a second. The Badger team of backstroker\u00a0Jessica Unicomb,\u00a0<\/strong>breaststroker\u00a0Anna Meinholz,\u00a0<\/strong>butterflier\u00a0Dana Grindall\u00a0<\/strong>and freestyler\u00a0Chase Kinney\u00a0<\/strong>touched the wall in 1:39.51.<\/p>\n The Tigers dominated in the men’s race, taking first and second place. The top Auburn team finished a full two seconds ahead of Florida State and Wisconsin. The winning Tigers’ team consisted of backstroker\u00a0Kyle Darmody,\u00a0<\/strong>breaststroker\u00a0Michael Duderstadt,\u00a0<\/strong>butterflier\u00a0Arthur Mendes\u00a0<\/strong>and freestyler\u00a0Peter Holoda.\u00a0<\/strong>They posted a time of 1:26.13.<\/p>\n Auburn’s\u00a0Justin Youtsey\u00a0<\/strong>was a key contributor in the Tigers’ win. The senior took first place in the men’s one-meter and three-meter diving competitions. Duderstadt also picked up two wins, taking the 100-yard breaststroke (53.39) and 100-yard freestyle (43.89).<\/p>\n On the women’s side, the Badgers were led by\u00a0Danielle Valley<\/strong>. The junior picked up wins in the 1000-yard freestyle (9:45.44), 500-yard freestyle (4:47.39) and 400-yard individual medley (4:17.09).<\/p>\n Natasha Lloyd\u00a0<\/strong>had a big day for the Auburn women. Lloyd, a junior, won the 100-yard breaststroke (1:01.01) and took second in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:12.08).<\/p>\n Wisconsin took first in the women’s 400-yard freestyle relay, knocking off Auburn’s top team by over a second. The Badger team of Unicomb, Kinney,\u00a0Annie Tamblyn\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Marissa Berg\u00a0<\/strong>posted a winning time of 3:20.27.<\/p>\n Auburn took the men’s race with a time of 2:56.14. The Tigers’ team consisted of Mendes, Holoda,\u00a0Jacob Molacek\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Zach Apple.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n “Both the men and women showed up today to race and compete,” Auburn coach Brett Hawke said in a press release. “The men are gaining confidence each meet they go into. Beating Florida last week really gave them a boost and you can tell they have really gone to another level and that’s a good thing going into SECs.”<\/p>\n The Tigers do not swim again until Southeastern Conference Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The No. 7 Auburn men made a statement against No. 17 Wisconsin and Florida State. The Tigers downed the Badgers 187-133 and the Seminoles 223-76. Coming off a loss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":129030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[29295,1817,25950,39687,26188,32,31648,56727,48440,29301,56728,29833,35103,35746,540],"class_list":["post-180743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-college","tag-arthur-mendes","tag-auburn","tag-chase-kinney","tag-dana-grindall","tag-danielle-valley","tag-florida","tag-jacob-molacek","tag-jessica-unicomb","tag-justin-youtsey","tag-kyle-darmody","tag-marissa-berg","tag-michael-duderstadt","tag-natasha-lloyd","tag-peter-holoda","tag-wisconsin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n