Fresno State Athletics
Fresno State
Tri Meet (Fresno Pacific, Santa Cruz)
'Dogs Sweep FPU and UCSC
11/15/2014 12:00:00 AM | Swimming & Diving
By: Andrew Rich
arich1221@mail.fresnostate.edu
GoBulldogs.com
FRESNO, Calif. -- Fresno State ended its' four-meet homestand to open the season with a pair of wins over UC Santa Cruz and Fresno Pacific in the Tri Meet at the Aquatics Center.
The `Dogs beat the Banana Slugs 251-47 and beat the Sunbirds 199-101. Fresno State swimmers and divers won 11 events on the day.
"I felt like our girls really attacked their events today," Bulldogs head coach Jeanne Fleck said. "We came out with confidence and belief that they could do it and I think that was a big difference."
Fresno State had two divers post qualifying scores for the NCAA Zone Meet in Colorado Springs, Colo., in March. Sophomore Shelbie Holden won both events with qualifying scores of 279.65 on the 1-meter and 313.15 on the 3-meter. Both of Holden's scores were personal-bests. Lacie Ruth scored a 274 on the 1-meter to finish second and qualify for Zones. The score was a personal-best for the junior out of Mt. Whitney High in Visalia.
"They had had such a great invitational last weekend in Los Angeles and they used that to help them today," Fleck said. "They got a lot of confidence from last weekend and learned a lot."
Individual swimming event winners for the `Dogs were Hailee Baldwin (200 IM), Tarryn Rennie (100 Fly), Kelly Simmons (500 Free), Leah Hatayama (50 Free), Esme Gullick (200 Fly), Allison Short (100 Back), Casey Kennemann (200 Free), and Lucy Titchin (1000 Free).
Kennemann, a freshman from Santa Maria, Calif., swam a 1:54.23 in her 200 Free win to post a lifetime-best time by more than three seconds. Fellow freshman Short posted a personal-best time of 58.58 in her 100 Backstroke win.
Hatayama won the 50 Freestyle event for the third straight meet. Her time of 23.71 seconds was a season-best and the third-best time in school history.
Titchin, a senior from England, swam 10:34.02 in her 1000 Freestyle win to post a personal-best. Fellow countrywoman Gullick swam a season-best of 2:06.50 in her 200 Fly win.
Fresno State will be back in action starting on Thursday when they travel to Los Angeles for the A3 Performance Invitational.
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