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Rice Swimmers Fall In Home Dual Meet
10/27/2006 12:00:00 AM | Swimming & Diving
Oct. 27, 2006
It was a case of good news-bad news, for the Rice swim team Friday evening at the Rice Pool. The Owls posted a number of season-best times up and down the roster, but the SMU Mustangs showed why they are the eighth-ranked team in the country on the way to a 178-83 Conference USA dual meet win over the Blue & Gray.
SMU won all 14 of the events in their first dual meet action of the season. The Mustangs posted 1-2 finishes four times and even had two swimmers, sophomore Petra Klosova and junior Anja Carman, respectively make the NCAA provisional standard in winning the 100-yard freestyle (50.89) and 200 backstroke (2:00.96) in back-to-back races.
Rice posted better times Friday than the team did in the big dual meet win over the University of Denver two weeks ago in Colorado. Junior sprinter Carlyann Miller recorded a pair of second place finishes with season-best times in the 100-free (52.35) and 200-free (1:53.59).
Freshman Pam Zelnick notched a pair of second-place finishes in the breaststroke events, including a Rice-best 2:23.71 in the 200. Fellow freshman Justine Lin lowered her times in both backstroke events and rookie Erin Mattson tallied a season-best 2:07.27 for second place in the 200-butterfly.
Junior Jennifer Hill was particularly strong with a 2:08.60 for second in the 200-individual medley. The Owls' 400-freestyle relay team of Miller, Skylar Craig, Zelnick and Diane Gu improved its best time of the year to 3:29.13.
The Owls had to endure a tough break for the meet that junior Amy Halseywas temporarily sidelined from competitive action. The backstroke star from Katy, Texas, said she would be back racing for the Blue & Gray next week at the Houston Cougar Invitational on Nov. 3-4 across town at UH. More information about that meet will be posted on this site next week.
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