Gophers go undefeated; lead IU to second place

The men's swimming and diving teams returned from Iowa City Saturday with both a win and a loss. The Hoosiers finished with a 169-130 victory over the Hawkeyes but lost 202-98 to the Gophers.\n"We swam really well on a great road trip," Coach Kris Kirchner said in a press release. "Our 200-medley relay time was one of the fastest we've ever turned in during my tenure here. We just have to do a better job finishing races."\nThe Hoosiers turned in the eighth-best time in school history in the 200-medley relay behind the team of sophomore Matt Leach, junior David Schulze, freshman Murph Halasz and sophomore Claes Andersson. The squad turned in a time of 1:30.39, only one hundredth of a second behind the first place Minnesota finisher.\nHalasz also won the 200-yard butterfly (1:48.15) and tied for second place in the 100-yard butterfly (49.57). \nFreshman Richard Bryant won the 1000-yard freestyle, posting the third-best time in school history, 9:19.00. Bryant also placed second in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:32.58.\nThe Hoosiers opened the day with the 50-yard freestyle, in which Andersson and sophomores Dale Ramsy and Mike Payne finished second, third and fourth with times of 20.67, 21.01 and 21.19, respectively. \nAndersson, Payne and Ramsy also contributed to IU's second-place finish in the 400-yard freestyle relay alongside junior David Schulze, posting a time of 3:04.04. \nSchulze swam to second-place finishes in both the 100- and 200-yard breaststroke events with times of 56.41 and 2:02.17, respectively. \nSenior Heath Montgomery swam to a team season-best time of 140.18 in the 200-yard free style, good enough for third place. \nOn the diving side of the competition, sophomore Marc Carlton took first place in the three-meter event with a score of 347.45. The mark was more than 75 points better than the second-place Iowa finisher, sophomore Timo Klami, who took first in the one-meter event. Carlton took third in the one-meter with a score of 255.85. Sophomore Alex Burns, the only other Hoosier diver at the meet, took fourth in the three-meter event (245.03).\nThe Golden Gophers dominated the Hawkeyes, 206-93. The Gophers placed first in 11 of the 16 events to raise their record to 6-0 for the year. They have not lost a conference dual in five years. \nThe Hoosiers continue swimming on the road when they next compete at Kentucky against the Wildcats and the Cincinnati Bearcats Feb. 2. At the Indiana Invitational Nov. 16-18 last year, the Hoosiers placed second, ahead of both the third-place Bearcats and the fifth-place diving squad of the Wildcats. The competition begins at 11 a.m.