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Texas junior Cory Bowersox edged teammate Mark Anderson in a tight battle for the one-meter diving title Thursday night on day one of the UT Diving Invite at UT’s Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
Anderson took a narrow lead into the event’s final round, but Bowersox totaled 72 points on his final dive, a two-and-a-half somersault with one twist, to end the meet with a winning total of 399.20 points.
Anderson settled for a close second-place finish with 394.05 points while senior Will Chandler took third place in the eight-man finals with 379.75 points.
The UT Diving Invite continues Friday with the men’s three-meter event and the women’s one-meter event.
Texas All-America senior Emma Ivory-Ganja produced a personal best in the women’s three-meter diving finals on her way to victory Thursday on day one of the UT Diving Invite at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.
Ivory-Ganja totaled a lifetime-best 395.40 points to handily win the three-meter finals. The reigning NCAA runner-up on platform eclipsed 70 points on three of her six dives and surpassed her winning three-meter score from the 2013 UT Invite by over 30 points. Her 395 points would have placed her third in the same event at the NCAA Championships last March.
UT junior Meghan Houston totaled 337.90 points for second place in the final. Texas junior Kristina Hoffmann placed 12th in the preliminary round with 245.85 points.
