Despite victories from Alex Bilunas and Anna Filipcic, the Nebraska swimming and diving team dropped its non-conference battle with Arkansas on Saturday 190-106.
Bilunas earned Nebraska's first victory of the day, finishing the 50-yard freestyle in 23.91. Saturday's victory for Bilunas in the 50-yard freestyle was her second victory of the season in the event.
Filipcic captured Nebraska's second victory of the day in the one-meter dive. Filipcic posted a first-place score of 283.65. Nebraska swept the top two spots in the one-meter event with Nicole Schwery earning second with a score of 267.98. Filipcic placed second in the three-meter dive posting a score of 316.05, while Schwery finished third with a score of 309.00.
Freshman Jordan Ehly earned two second-place finishes. Ehly swam to a second place finish in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:20.43) and the 400-yard individual medley (4:37.99). Ehly also earned a third-place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:06.10).
Rebekah Land, Katt Sickle and Bria Deveaux all captured second-place finishes on Saturday. Land earned her runner up finish in the 100-yard backstroke swimming to a time of 57.62. Sickle finished second in the 500-yard freestyle racing to a time of 5:05.48. Deveaux swam to a time of 57.13 to claim her second-place finish in the 100-yard butterfly.
Jacqueline Juffer (100-yard backstroke), Sickle (1,000-yard freestyle), Aimee Fischer (500-yard freestyle), Erin Oeltjen (100-yard butterfly) and Julia Roller (400-yard individual medley) all captured third-place finishes against Arkansas.
In the relays, the Huskers took second in both events. The 200-yard medley team of Juffer, Ehly, Deveaux and Bilunas finished with a time of 1:45.87, while the 200-yard freestyle relay team of Bilunas, Land, Kelly Dunn and Amanda Moran finished in 1:36.52.
?Nebraska will have nearly two weeks to prepare for the Missouri Invitational. The meet will run from Nov. 20-22 and take place in Columbia, Mo.
