UC Davis picked off BYU in Davis on Friday night.
UC Davis Press Release
DAVIS, Calif. -- Host UC Davis won 12 of the 16 events on the day, including a pair of individual wins from both sophomore Solie Laughlin and Elise Roberts, to help lift the Aggies to a, 172-128, victory over Mountain Pacific Sports Federation rival BYU on Friday afternoon at the Schaal Aquatics Center on campus.
The victory lifted UC Davis to 5-2 overall in duals this season and 3-0 against MPSF opponents, while the Cougars fell to 1-2. The Aggies have now won the last three straight duals over BYU during the regular season dating back to 2014.
UC Davis opened with a win in the 200 medley relay, setting a season-best with a time of 1:45.68, to take an early lead before BYU responded with a win in the 1000 free by Savannah DuPuis, and a Tiare Coker victory in the 200 free, to go up 33-22 after three events.
Laughlin's triumph in the 100 back (56.79) and Roberts' win in the 100 breast (1:04.75) began the Aggies' comeback, closing them to within five points, 49-44. Laughlin's time was a season-best by an Aggie in the 100 back in her first race at that distance this season, while Roberts set a season-best time in her first race at that distance, as well.
The Cougars inched their advantage back to six with a win by Vanessa Moffatt in the 200 fly, as Cora McClelland (2:05.97) posted a season best time to help the Aggies finish 2-3-4 in the event and remain close, helping set the stage for a big UC Davis comeback.
A win by Kirsten Brand in the 50 free (24.19) led the way for an Aggie sweep in the event, with Courtney Schultz (24.27) and Jaime Pincin (24.53) close behind, and kick-started a stretch of five straight UC Davis event victories to put the Aggies up, 116-91. After the break, Pincin and Schultz finished in a dead heat to split first-place points in the 100 free in a time of 52.50, Laughlin followed with a win in the 200 back (2:02.08), and Roberts and Marissa Brown touched first in the 200 breast (2:21.27) and 500 free (5:03.12), respectively.
Schultz, who posted her second-fastest time of the season earlier in the day in the 200 free, won for the second time in the 100 free, while Pincin posted her first individual win as an Aggie after contributing to a trio of winning relays this year. Laughlin posted her second win of the season in the 200 back, while Roberts has won the 200 breast in all three of her team's competitions thus far this season.
The lead was one that UC Davis would not relinquish as Shaifali Goyal (240.23), Serena Yee (239.73), and Inessa Toropov (229.28), took three of the top five spots on the 3-meter, McClelland posted a season-best time in the 100 fly en route to a second-place finish and lead a 2-3-4 finish for the Aggies, and the home team claimed victories by Eva Chung (2:06.46) in the 200 IM and the quartet of Mia Facey, Kirsten Brand, Pincin, and Schultz, in the 400 free relay.
On the 3-meter board, Goyal (242.48) and Yee (233.55) closed with a 1-2 finish on the low board to close out the win.
Roberts and Laughlin finished with a team-high 20.5 points to share meet-high honors for UC Davis, while Coker contributed 18 points to the Cougars' day to lead the way for the visitors.
The Aggies return to the pool at the Schaal Aquatics Center next Friday (Nov. 4) at 4 p.m., hosting a double dual against Nevada and Cal State East Bay.
BYU Press Release
DAVIS, California– Two wins from Tiare Coker assisted the BYU women's swim and dive team in its outdoor loss at UC Davis, 172-128, on Friday afternoon.
“It was a well-fought meet by both teams,” BYU head coach John Brooks said. “Our women’s team really stepped up to the plate and won many events. We may not have won the meet, but I think our team knows that they performed well and to the best of their ability. I am proud of what they accomplished.”
Leading the team with two victories was freshman Coker. She improved her season-best time in the 100-meter butterfly, swimming it in 56.50 (56.59 was her time from last week). She also won the women’s 200-yard freestyle, posting a time of 1:52.18.
Winning the second event of the day was another Cougar freshman, Savannah DuPuis, clocking a time of 10:27.13 in the 1000-yard freestyle. She was closely followed by her teammate Vanessa Moffatt, who took second in the race (10:27.42). Moffatt, a junior from Lakewood, Washington, claimed a victory just four events later in the 200-yard butterfly. She improved her time from last week (2:07) to 2:05.63.
BYU's Anna Dahl was named “Swimmer of the Meet” by her coaches and teammates for her performance in the 200-yard breaststroke. She finished the race in second with a time of 2:22.57. Dahl also competed in the 100-yard breaststroke and placed second with a time of 1:05.16.
Lauren Shaw Taylor and Ashlee Spindler stayed neck-in-neck throughout the meet, achieving second and third place standings for the Cougars in two events. Taylor took second in the 100-yard backstroke (57.07) and Spindler followed in third with a time of 57.81. In the 200-yard backstroke, Taylor once again took the second-place finish (2:04.59) and Spindler touched right after at 2:05.96.
In the women’s 3-meter dive, BYU's Shelby Johnson took her first win of the season with a final score of 246.23. She also participated in the 1-meter event and took sixth with a score of 215.93. Teammate Morgan Mellow, a freshman from Mesa, Arizona took third in the 1-meter event and had a final score of 228.83.
Both BYU men’s and women’s teams will compete on the road against UNLV on Saturday, Nov. 5 at 9 a.m. PTD.
