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Bruins Fall to Sun Devils on Road, 189-111
November 04, 2017 | Swimming & Diving
TEMPE, Ariz. -- The UCLA swimming and diving team collected five victories at Arizona State Saturday, but ultimately fell to the Sun Devils at the Mona Plummer Aquatic Center, 189-111.
Katie Grover accounted for multiple wins for the second consecutive day, while Eloise Belanger won her third diving competition in four weekend tries.
Arizona State got things started with a 200 Medley Relay victory, as its "A" team finished their run in 1:42.50. The UCLA "A" quartet of Emma Schanz, Isabella Goldsmith, Amy Okada and Sarah Kaunitz finished a close second at 1:43.90.
The 1000 Free was a close one, as the top three competitors were separated by less than three seconds. Arizona State's Caitlyn Wilson would finish first with a time of 10:05.05, while Bruin Sandra Soe was slotted second at 10:07.51.
The first Bruin win of the day came by way of Kenisha Liu, whose 1:49.14 was more than a second better than Arizona State's Erica Lanning. Olivia Andrew (1:52.71) notched two points for UCLA with a fourth-place finish.
Three of the five scoring spots in the 100 Back were occupied by Bruins, with Emma Schanz's second-place time of 56.04 tops among them. The Sun Devils' Chloe Kennedy Isleta won the event in a time of 54.64. Bruins Jennifer Lathrop (56.52) and Lucy Agnew (56.98) came in fourth and fifth, respectively. Later in the day, the 200 Back would go very similarly, with Isleta (1:58.70) taking first, Lathrop (2:01.13) third and Agnew (2:01.42) fifth.
Arizona State won its second event in a row when Silja Kansakoski topped the 100 Breast field in a time of 1:02.60. Emma Cain, who competed for Scottsdale Aquatic Club in Arizona, finished fourth (1:04.54). Goldsmith came in fifth (1:04.74).
Bruins went 1-2 in the 200 Fly, as Okada collected a first-place finish by nearly three seconds over teammate Marie-Pierre Delisle. Allison Goldblatt rounded out the top five for the Bruins, clocking in at 2:05.73.
The top five finishers in the 50 Free were separated by less than one second, with Arizona State's Katherine Wagner narrowly taking the top spot with a time of 23.47. Grover finished third (23.64) and Goldsmith fifth (24.25).
Grover soon rebounded, though, taking the 100 Free for a second consecutive day. This time, she topped Wagner by a narrow margin—clocking in at 50.27—just ahead of the Sun Devil at 51.06. Andrew finished fourth at 52.60.
In the second distance race of the day, Sun Devils would account for the top three spots, while Lisa Kaunitz (5:01.66) and Soe (5:01.87) collected the fourth- and fifth-place points. Erica Lanning (4:55.40) finished first.
Grover's second win of the day came in the 100 Fly, which the Atlanta native also took one day earlier at Arizona. The senior edged teammate Okada by four hundredths of one second (55.24-55.28). Delisle finished a close fifth at 56.96.
Sun Devil Marlies Ross (2:01.73) clocked in first in the 200 IM, ahead of teammate Isleta. Bruins Liu (2:03.68) and Schanz (2:04.77) finished third and fourth. The 400 Free Relay completed the day from a swimming standpoint, as Arizona State's "A" team (3:24.33) held off the Bruins' "A" squad of Goldsmith, Grover, Sarah Kaunitz and Liu (3:24.45).
Belanger, who swept the diving competitions from the Arizona schools at home last season, nearly did the same thing on the road this year. She once again topped the 1-Meter event with a score of 313.05, ahead of teammate Ciara Monahan (309.38). Sun Devil Mara Aiacoboae earned the first-place points in the 3-Meter with a score of 328.20, as Belanger finished third at 323.10. Monahan finished fifth (264.45).
Next up for the Bruins is the diving-only Trojan Diving Invitational, which will run from Friday, Nov. 10-Sunday, Nov. 12. Swimmers will return to action at the Texas Invitational Wednesday, Nov. 29-Friday, Dec. 1.
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