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UT Earns First SEC Road Win
January 08, 2015 | Swimming & Diving
Jan. 8, 2015
Results 
COLLEGE STATION, Texas--Tennessee Swimming and Diving hit the road for SEC action for the first time this season with a pair of double dual meets at the Student Recreation Center Natatorium in College Station Thursday. Seniors Tristan Slater and Molly Hannis swept all four breaststroke events for Tennessee, while Sam McHugh won a trio of events. Mauricio Robles and newcomer Liam Stone led the way in the diving well.
UT won three of the four dual meets, with the No. 15 men (5-4, 2-1 SEC) sweeping A&M (184-115) and Missouri State (210-89), while the No. 11 women (5-3-1, 1-1-1 SEC) splitting their two meets--falling to the No. 4 Aggies (177.50-110.50) and defeating Southern Methodist (204-83).
The Big Orange heads east for the second half of their two-meet SEC trip and will arrive in Baton Rouge for a Saturday afternoon dual meet against the Tigers of Louisiana State University.
Inside the Men's Scoring
The men's team won 11 events in their double dual meet with Texas A&M and Missouri State, defeating the Aggies and Bears to bring their record over the .500 mark.
The top two 200 Medley Relay teams started the afternoon on a positive note for the Vols. The B team of Jimmy Dagley, Tristan Slater, Jacob Thulin and Troy Tillman won the opening event in 1:29.34, while the A team of Sean Lehane, Ross Dibblin, Gustav Aberg Ledjstrom and Chris Sadsad earned second place in 1:29.59. Tennessee's C team (Tim Wylie, Sam McHugh, Joshua Romany and Ryan Coetzee) finished in sixth place.
Slater followed his relay leg by earning a pair of victories in the two breaststroke events. His 55.36 time in the 100 Breast nearly matched his career-best time set at November's Nike Cup, while his 1:59.47 time in the 200 Breast is his second-fastest time in the event this season.
Fellow Brit Ross Dibblin earned a pair of top-three finishes in both breaststroke events, finishing second behind Slater in the 100 (55.97) and third in the 200 (2:04.39).
McHugh, meanwhile, finished with wins in the 200 Fly, 200 Back and 200 IM, increasing his win total to 15 so far this season. McHugh (1:46.30) and Aberg Ledjstrom (1:51.38) swept the top-two spots in the 200 Fly, joined by Tyler Mills (1:53.27) and Evan Pinion (1:56.01).
UT placed four men in the top-8 in the 200 Back, led by McHugh's 1:46.26--in his first 200 Back race of the season--and Dagley's third-place finish (1:49.35). The Chattanooga freshman then won the 200 IM in 1:48.33, followed by Lehane's third-place result in 1:51.31.
Ben Miller and Trevor Leland led the way in the distance races, thanks to a 1-3 finish in the 1000 Free. Miller earned his first victory of the season by winning in a season-best 9:21.76, while Leland earned his highest finish since the season-opening meet at UNCW by clocking in at 9:27.98, also a new season-best. Junior Sean Lehane finished in 48.09 time to win the 100 Back for the third time this season. Tim Wylie finished sixth, while freshman Duncan Johnson placed ninth on his birthday.
Jacob Thulin earned his first victory of his senior season, claiming first in the 100 Fly in 48.32, tying his season-best time set against Auburn and Louisville in November, while fellow senior Troy Tillman (20.32) earned his third sprint victory of the season in the 50 Free.
Similar to how they started the meet, the UT relays claimed No. 1 and No. 2 in the 400 Free Relay in 2:59.64 and 3:00.70. The A team (Tillman, Aberg Ledjstrom, Dagley and Coetzee) finished atop the leaderboard, followed by the second-place B team (Thulin, Romany, Slater, Mills).
Inside the Women's Scoring
The women's team earned five victories overall en route to a split of the double dual meet.
Molly Hannis once again won both breaststroke events for the fifth time this season, continuing her undefeated season in the two events. The senior edged out A&M's Sycerika McMahon to win the 100 Breast in 1:01.04. She later defeated McMahon again in the 200 Breast in 2:09.89.
Maddie Tegner earned a victory in the 1000 Free to lead the distance freestyle squad. Her first competitive action since earning two top-two finishes at Nike Cup, Tegner continued her great swimming by winning in 9:56.44, a new career-best time breaking her previous best in 2013. Morgan Dickson finished third (10:06.04).
Micah Bohon won the fourth and final UT individual race in the 200 IM in 2:04.19, her first win in the event and second as a Lady Vol. Colleen Callahan (2:04.83), Lauren Driscoll (2:04.96) and Anna DeMonte (2:07.00) rounded out the top-four spots, giving UT the four-spot sweep.
UT's final win of the afternoon came during the final event of the night in the 400 Free Relay. Tennessee's A (Harper Bruens, Patricia Forrester, Alex Cleveland, Amanda Carner) and C (Heather Lundstrom, Michelle Cefal, Heather Kiger, Amy Lubawy) relay teams finished first and second overall, clocking times of 3:24.08 and 3:29.81.
Inside Diving
The trio of male divers represented the Vols in the diving well with both ladies sidelined with injuries. Similar to his outing at UT's Diving Invitational this January, Mauricio Robles earned another win in the three-meter springboard with a score of 388.90. This win is the reigning SEC Male Diver of the Week's fourth on three-meter this season and his second straight in 2015.
In his first action as a Volunteer, freshman Liam Stone earned a pair of top-three finishes. After earning second place in the men's one-meter springboard (345.85), Stone followed that effort by placing third in the three-meter (363.30). Teammate Michael Howell finished seventh in both events.
