STOCKTON, California, January 27. THE UCSB swim teams collected a pair of dual meet wins on Friday afternoon at Pacific. The women captured a 153-109 win while the men defeated the Tigers, 158-100.<\/p>\n
The men's 'A' 200 medley relay got the ball rolling for the Gauchos as Ryan Garcia, Kevin Ferguson, Wade Allen and Kevin Kuhn finished in 1:32.80, good for a comfortable first place finish. <\/p>\n
UCSB then went on to sweep the 1000 freestyle with Andrea Ward capturing first in a time of 10:21.42 and Andrew Barmann winning in 9:35.01. Ward won her second individual event of the day in the 100 butterfly with a time of 55.19 seconds.<\/p>\n
Garrett Thompson continued his dominance in the 200 freestyle, touching first in a time of 1:39.19, which just beat out teammate Chris Peterson (1:39.92). The Gauchos had the top-four finishes in the event with Andrew Dossa (1:43.24) and Alexander Campbell (1:43.37) finishing in third and fourth, respectively.<\/p>\n
Sophia Yamauchi won the women's 100 backstroke in 56.63 seconds, which was followed by Kevin Ferguson's win on the men's side in 51.89 seconds.<\/p>\n
Katie Records proceeded to record the first of her two individual wins in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:04.76. She narrowly beat out Pacific's Mallory McGowan by .09 seconds. The freshman won the 200 breaststroke later in the meet in a time of 2:19.59.<\/p>\n
In the 200 butterfly, Allie Knight (2:04.96) and Bob Hwang (1:54.41) collected consecutive Gaucho wins, as did Kendall Neely (23.84) and Ferguson (20.86) in the 50 free.<\/p>\n
The Gaucho men dominated the 100 freestyle with Campbell (46.97), Lucas Norman (47.04) and Steven Ewoldt (47.50) sweeping first through third place, respectively. <\/p>\n
Continuing to show her versatility, Yamauchi \u2013 who usually specializes in breaststroke and the individual medley \u2013 won the 500 free in a time of 5:00.73.<\/p>\n
UCSB rounded out the individual events with a pair of victories in the 400 IM. Knight grabbed her second win of the day, touching the wall in 4:33.20 while Garcia won the men's event in 4:02.76.<\/p>\n
The women's 'A' 200 free relay consisting of Neely, Sasza Lohrey, Yamauchi and Anne Peanasky concluded the meet with a victory, finishing in 1:35.89. The men's 'A' team followed suit with Allen, Thompson, Ferguson and Campbell touching the wall in 1:22.88.<\/p>\n
With the wins, the UCSB men improve their record to 5-0 while the women are now 4-3 in duals. <\/p>\n
The Gaucho women will face UC Davis tomorrow in a dual against their Mountain Pacific Sports Federation foe scheduled for an 11 a.m. start at the Aggies' Schaal Aquatics Center. <\/p>\n
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