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TCU Falls to UNLV in 2011 Opener
1/8/2011 12:00:00 AM | Swimming and Diving
Jan. 8, 2011
LAS VEGAS, Nev. - TCU men's swimming and diving dropped its first dual-meet in nearly two years, falling to UNLV by a score of 157-136. The Lady Rebels downed the TCU women, 161-139.
Trailing 137-120 with two events remaining, the TCU men needed wins in the 200-individual medley and 400-freestyle relay. Senior Andy Garcia-Montes provided the spark for the Frogs with a 1:53.51 for the win in the 200-individual medley.
In the 400-freestyle relay, the Horned Frogs needed to finish in at least first and third places. However, after junior standout Laszlo Gyurko's goggles broke in the leadoff leg, TCU could muster only a third place finish and the 16th-ranked Rebels clinched the win.
Going into the dual, TCU had won 11-straight dual-meets, including nine-straight against Mountain West Conference competition. Before Friday night, TCU last dropped a dual meet on Jan. 9, 2009.
With the win, UNLV improved to 4-1, 2-0 MWC. The Frogs fell to 2-1, 2-1. After TCU picked up its first win in school history to clinch the MWC regular season title a year ago, the Rebels appeared ready for the upstart Frogs in 2011.
Frog wins leaders Edgar Crespo and Laszlo Gyurko returned to work in the new year. Crespo won the 100-breaststroke and 200-breaststroke for his fifth and sixth wins of the season. For the 100-breaststroke, the Panama, City, Panama native clocked a 54.92. In the 200-breast, he finished in 2:02.38.
Gyurko notched wins in the 100-backstroke and 200-backstroke to break his total to five. In the 100-back, the Szekszard, Hungary, native touched the wall in 49.57. His 200-backstroke winning time was 1:51.18.
Kyle Callens and Eric Steiger also added wins in the 1-meter and 3-meter springboard dive, respectively. Callens won the 1-meter with a score of 318.08, while Steiger notched a total of 318.08 in the 3-meter. Friedrich Grott was a winner in the 200-butterfly with a 1:52.63.
TCU's women fell to 2-3, 2-3, while UNLV improved to 4-4, 3-2.
Sophomore Sabine Rasch picked up two wins on the night, bringing her total to eight for the year. She won the 50-freestyle and 100-freestyle. The Luckenwalde, Germany, native won the 50-free in 23.56 and the 100-free in 52.05. Rasch is the TCU record holder in both events.
Freshmen Michelle Fleming and Amanda Vincent notched three wins on the night for TCU. Fleming was a winner in the 100-breaststroke (1:06.85) and 200-breaststroke (2:22.70), while Vincent won the 200-butterfly (2:03.98).
Katie Lybbert picked up wins in the 1-meter and 3-meter springboard for the women's squad's first diving wins of the season. She notched scores of 257.10 and 293.18, respectively. The TCU 400-freestyle relay team was also a winner Friday evening with a 3:28.11.
Senior wins leader Maria Paula Alvarez notched two second-place finishes for the Frogs, both in heartbreaking fashion. In the 200-free, she notched a 1:52.06, two-hundredths of a second behind UNLV's Lara Sreibers. In the 500-free, Alvarez touched the wall in 5:00.67, just four-hundredths of a second behind first place.
TCU returns to action Jan. 15, when it hosts Utah inside the TCU University Rec Center Natatorium. It will be a men's and women's dual meet.
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