{"id":239740,"date":"2017-02-04T21:47:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T04:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=239740"},"modified":"2017-02-08T17:30:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T00:30:50","slug":"the-tie-in-tucson-cant-split-arizona-and-asu-men-after-intense-rivalry-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/the-tie-in-tucson-cant-split-arizona-and-asu-men-after-intense-rivalry-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tie in Tucson: Can\u2019t Split Arizona and ASU Men After Intense Rivalry Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By David Rieder.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>First came the drawn-out chants of \u201cZO-NA! ZO-NA!\u201d from the team clad in red and blue on the side of the pool. After barely a second of silence, a quick-paced \u201cA-S-U! A-S-U!\u201d cheer emanated from the young men and women in maroon and gold lined up along the upstairs railing inside the Hillenbrand Aquatic Center.<\/p>\n<p>It was the men\u2019s 400 IM, a key race in a tied meet between Arizona and Arizona State. Those cheering in the stands were members of Arizona State\u2019s non-travel squad that had woken up at 6 a.m. on a Saturday morning to drive down to Tucson and support their team. Those Sun Devils were in the parking lot grilling hotdogs before any other swimmers, coaches, officials or fans even arrived at the pool.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s our team. It\u2019s our school,\u201d ASU senior <strong>Cole Miller<\/strong> said while taking a break from cheering. \u201cThe biggest part of swimming fast is fans. With swimming, you don\u2019t have a lot of them, so we came down. We want them to swim fast\u2014they\u2019re like our brothers, our sisters. This means a lot to us, especially since this is against our rival.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Sun Devil men had proven to be a worthy in-state rival for the Arizona Wildcats a year earlier. In 2016, <strong>Bob Bowman\u2019s<\/strong> first season as ASU head coach, the team broke a 14-year losing streak against Arizona in front of a packed house at Mona Plummer Aquatic Center.<\/p>\n<p>Back on their home turf this time around, the Wildcats were plenty eager to return the favor. The ASU men entered ranked No. 13 in the country in the most recent CSCAA poll, and Arizona was just behind at No. 17. Bowman and Arizona head coach <strong>Rick DeMont<\/strong> had agreed beforehand that both teams would put on racing suits for the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>On a warm, sunny day in Tucson, it was game on.<\/p>\n<p>The Wildcat men jumped out to an early advantage, winning the first two events and five of the first seven\u2014including the 200 fly, where Arizona junior <strong>Justin Wright<\/strong> pulled away from ASU\u2019s <strong>Patrick Park<\/strong>\u00a0down the stretch and finished in 1:42.55, the sixth-fastest time\u00a0in the country this season.<\/p>\n<p>Leading 86-61 at the first break, the Wildcats had momentum, but ASU came out in the next event and promptly finished 1-2-3 in the 100 free. The Sun Devils were chipping away at the lead before <strong>Andrew Porter<\/strong>\u2014who transferred from Arizona to ASU after the 2015 season\u2014won the 100 fly in 46.35 to tie the score. With only the 400 IM and 400 free relay to go, both teams had 129 points.<\/p>\n<p>But during that 400 IM, the Sun Devils\u2019 hopes of victory seemed to evaporate as quickly as four military jets in formation whizzed by. Arizona\u2019s <strong>Nick Thorne<\/strong> pulled away to win the race, and teammates\u00a0<strong>Ricky Maestri<\/strong> and <strong>Steven Medvedev<\/strong> finished third and fourth, respectively, putting Arizona up nine going into the final relay.<\/p>\n<p>That meant ASU had to have a one-two finish to win the meet. Even though DeMont\u2019s team had the advantage, he admitted to feeling some nerves as the men stepped up on the blocks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why we wake up in the morning, for situations like that, for the adrenaline and the energy involved in it,\u201d DeMont said.<\/p>\n<p>For a few moments, it looked like Arizona\u2019s nightmare scenario was unfolding. Sun Devil relays indeed occupied the top two spots at the halfway point, but Arizona sophomore <strong>Chad Idensohn<\/strong> pulled ahead of Reid Elliott and the ASU B-team on the third leg, and anchor <strong>Parks Jones<\/strong> held on for a second-place finish.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona\u2019s men had apparently won by a final score of 147-145. Both women and men erupted on deck in victorious celebration. One swimmer shouted, \u201cThis is our pool!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But as the teams were preparing to congratulate each other, venue announcer <strong>Jeff Commings<\/strong> came back on the microphone. The Sun Devils had actually picked up two additional points from the B-team\u2019s third-place finish in the relay. They, too, had scored 147 points. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/pac-12-saturday-recap-arizona-asu-men-tie-in-tucson\/\" target=\"_blank\">It was a tie.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tons of emotion and energy expended on either side, two hours of intense racing, and the two teams, based just 115 miles apart, were still deadlocked. Now what?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe both kind of just shake hands,\u201d Bowman said. \u201cNobody feels really great or really terrible. You just kind of say nice job\u2014it\u2019s a pretty day, and let\u2019s drive home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But standing on deck after the meet, neither head coach seemed all that upset about the final score. And with good reason: after the Arizona and ASU women and men combined to finish 0-10 in their January dual meets, this was each team\u2019s best effort so far of the new year.<\/p>\n<p>Bowman shouted out Porter, Molinari, <strong>Cameron Craig<\/strong> and <strong>Richard Bohus<\/strong> for their clutch efforts, and he was just as thrilled with his women\u2019s team. Arizona won the women\u2019s meet 180-118, but led by double winners <strong>Kat Simonovic<\/strong> and <strong>Silja Kansakoski,<\/strong> the Sun Devil women scored 30 more points against the Wildcats than they had in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Wright and Thorne were the standout performers for the Arizona men, and the women, who will sure to be a contender for a top-ten finish at next month\u2019s NCAA championships, got strong backstroke efforts from <strong>Annie Ochitwa<\/strong>, <strong>Taylor Garcia<\/strong> and <strong>Cameron<\/strong> <strong>McHugh<\/strong>, while sprinter <strong>Katrina Konopka<\/strong> blasted free relay splits of 21.62 and 48.65.<\/p>\n<p>Both Bowman and DeMont credited the atmosphere of the rivalry meet for making all those efforts possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very different, and there\u2019s nothing quite like it. 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