LOS ANGELES – After extending its dual-match winning streak to 32 straight on Friday, the swimming portion of the San Diego State swimming and diving team, added another three to that total with wins over Seattle U, Grand Canyon, and Loyola Marymount by scores of 149-to-47, 120-to-79, and 139-to-44, respectively, on Saturday at the Burns Aquatic Center on the LMU campus.
In the 11 events contested, San Diego State's student-athletes won eight.
In the first race of the day, the 400-medley relay, the Aztecs finished in first, third and fifth place. The team of Riley Tapley, Klara Thormalm, Cassie Phillips and Meredith Smithbaker won the race in 3:46.36. Evonne Stehr, Brynlee Busskohl, Lizzie Menzmer and Sammy Geyer were the third-place squad in 4:01.00 and with the fifth-place time, 4:03.23, were Alex Roberts, Jessie McMurray, Lexi Anderson, Lauren Torchiana.
Mia Ryan was the Aztecs lone competitor in the 1000 free and won the race in 10:39.81.
Ryan Dulaney, Emily Gebhardt and Ashlyn Hemphill swam the 200 free. Dulaney was the first Aztec to touch the wall, in third place in 1:58.52. Gebhardt was fifth, in a time of 1:59.4,1 and Hemphill, in 2:01.54, was the ninth-place finisher.
In the first sprint of the day, the 50 free, the Aztecs had eight competitors. Meredith Smithbaker, the top finisher for San Diego State was second in 23.89. The other two swims which scored points for SDSU came from Thormalm in fourth place (24.00) and Menzmer in fifth (24.03). The other five Aztecs' swims, Fiona Trotz-Chavez (24.19), Geyer (24.42), Cathy Cooper (24.72), Torchiana (25.25) and McMurray (26.12), were exhibitions.
San Diego State had three swimmers in the 400 IM, and they finished first, second and fourth. Kristina Murphy won the race in 4:24.49, while Wilma Johansson was second in 4:32.56, and Mai McKenna finished fourth in 4:40.69.
The Aztecs took three of the first five spots in the 200 fly. Johnasson won the event in 2:05.15, while Phillips (2:05.85) and Anderson (2:13.23) were second and fifth, respectively.
Smithbaker won the 100 free in 51.23. Ryan was third in 52.67 and Trotz-Chavez touched in 54.17, good for seventh place. Cooper raced as an exhibition and finished in 54.86.
As was the case in the 200 fly, the Aztecs took three of the top five spots in the 200 back. Tapley (2:03.27) was the second-place finisher and the best finisher for San Diego State. McKenna was third in 2:07.27 and Stehr touched in 2:08.47 good for fifth place. Swimming as exhibitions, Johnasson came home in 2:11.08, and Roberts finished with a time of 2:13.32.
Ryan, who won the 500 free on Friday, repeated the feat on Saturday in 5:12.64.
Murphy won the 200 breaststroke in 2:17.81. Busskohl and Geyer were the fourth and sixth place finishers, respectively. Busskohl touched in 2:24.41, while Geyer came home in 2:27.19. McMurray (2:27.82) and Hemphill (2:30.44) swam the event as an exhibition.
The final competition was the 200 free relay. The team of Menzmer, Phillips, Thormalm and Cooper won the race in 1:34.44. Stehr, Ryan, Trotz-Chavez and Torchiana touched the wall in third place in 1:38.35. The fourth quickest time, 1:39.76, belonged to Murphy, Anderson, Roberts and Tapley whose swim was an exhibition.
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Aztecs Wrap Up LMU Meet With Three More Dual Wins
