Monday, November 16, 1998
Triangular meet gives mixed results
MEET WRAP: Bruins win, lose, tie against UCSB, ASU, UA
respectively in L.A.
By Steve Kim
Daily Bruin Senior Staff
The UCLA swimming and diving team evened out their home meet
results this weekend with a win, tie and a loss. The Bruins beat
the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos with an overall scoring of 198-85
while tying Arizona State University 150-150. UCLA hosted the No. 3
University of Arizona and walked away with a 198.5-108.5 loss.
Friday’s competition was a triangular meet between UCLA, ASU and
UCSB that basically left UCSB in the dust. The real competition was
between ASU and UCLA, and for a while, ASU had the upper hand.
The Sun Devils won the earlier events such as the 200-meter
medley relay, 1000-meter freestyle, 200-meter free and fly, and
100-meter breaststroke and backstroke. Second and third places
earned by the Bruins helped in the overall scoring, but it wasn’t
until the 50-meter free when things started looking positive for
UCLA.
Junior Keiko Price, along with her freshman teammates Angela
Belloni and Katie Ryan, swept the first three places of the
50-meter free. Price, sophomore Beth Goodwin and Ryan later
dominated the 100-meter free as well.
"We really pulled on the second half," UCLA head coach Cyndi
Gallagher said. "We had a momentum break with the 50-meter and
100-meter free. That changed everything."
Goodwin added another win on the 100-meter butterfly and the
diving scores that followed gave the Bruins a big point boost.
Sophomore Anne Baghramian won both the one and three-meter
springboard events.
"Everyone missed one dive and we responded to the misses Arizona
State had by coming back with great dives," UCLA diving coach Tom
Stebbins said.
With most of the races done and points added up, determining the
winning team came down to the 400-meter free relay. A Bruin team
came short of winning and had to settle for a meet tie. The Bruins
were able to improve upon last year’s loss to ASU.
The next day was when the University of Arizona Wildcats stormed
in with their nationally top-ranked team. They won just about every
event with a talented squad including Olympian Trina Jackson and
backstroker Denali Knapp.
The Bruins had their share of highs. Price took the 50-meter
free again and Goodwin out-touched her competitor in the 100-meter
fly like she did the day before.
Another Bruin strength was shown in the breaststroke events.
Junior All-American Amber Wines finally broke out of a flu-infected
early season with a 1:04.55 lead in the 100-meter breaststroke.
Freshmen Lyndee Hovespian and Jen Noddle followed closely to sweep
the event. While Wines sat out on the 200-meter breast, Hovespian
and Noddle came in first and second to continue the Bruin
breaststroke dominance.
While Arizona divers swept the one-meter board and occupied the
first two places of the three-meter board event, Baghramian was the
only Bruin to place in the top three. Baghramian’s score of 271.275
qualifies her for the NCAA zone meet.
"We like the challenge of swimming against fast teams,"
Gallagher said of Arizona. "There’s a few teams which can win the
NCAA’s this year and Arizona is one of them. They’re really good
and we knew that going in but it’s great to be challenged by a
great team."NICOLE MILLER
Sophomore Delilah More prepares to dive at the swim meet hosted
by UCLA this weekend.
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