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Show MEN'S SWIMMING BY BEN JASAREVIC /STAFF WRITER PHOTO BY JAMESON CLIFTON SHAKING THINGS UP Utes unsatisfied with winning BY IAN SMITH /STAFF WRITER I he final score doesn't always tell the full story. Even though Utah cruised to a 179-101 victory over Colorado Mesa over the weekend, not everyone was happy with how the meet turned out. The Utes won every event except one in the season's home opener. Head coach Joe Dykstra said he appreciated having the opportunity to swim against the Mavericks, but he wanted his team to perform better than they did. "We had a few bright spots, a few individual performances," Dykstra said. "Overall, I'm rather disappointed with our effort today. Clearly, we're swimming against an opponent that was overmatched, but we were not nearly as sharp or technically proficient as we need to be." The Utes almost swept the board for the entire meet, but Colorado Mesa stole the 100-yard breaststroke to avoid the clean sweep. After dominating the 200-yard medley relay by taking the top three spots in the race, Utah continued with its momentum to other events. Peter Koston won the 1,000-yard freestyle, and Brandon Shreeve claimed first place in the 200-yard freestyle. A more impressive performance came from Nick Soedel, who won the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 20.54. Ben Scott came away with the 100-yard backstroke, and Bence Kiraly won both the 200-yard butterfly and the 400-yard I.M. Kristian Kron touched first in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4.37:49, while Brandon Deckard and Brandon Young won the 200-yard backstroke and 200-yard breaststroke, respectively. Alex Fernandes won the 100-yard freestyle, and Scott grabbed his second first-place finish of the meet in the 100-yard butterfly. All these victories, however, weren't enough to satisfy the Utes. Dykstra felt his team didn't do a good job with the technical details of swimming. "Turns were terrible," he said. "We had a couple of false starts. Your starts and turns should be good in your home pool. We practice here every day. Part of it was we were swimming some guys in some events they're not accustomed to doing." Dykstra said he had some of his athletes swim events they usually don't in order to find out what third event the swimmer might do well at in a championship environment, where swimmers are allowed to swim three events. "For others, we are experimenting with maybe new relay spots down the road," he said. "Especially for some of our top guys, it's just to give them a break from their normal race so they don't get race fatigued." Robby Miner, who swam the 500- and 1,000-yard freestyle races, said he feels the team could have prepared much better for the meet. "Yeah, we did," he said when asked if his team underestimated Colorado Mesa. "We know we're in the Pac-12, and we know we do well, but still, we should give it our all no matter what. You should take advantage of these meets." Miner said that even when having a meet of this magnitude, swimmers should still treat it as a practice for what they want to do later in the bigger meets. Dykstra said if the Utes want to be a top-15 team at the end of the year, they have to do a better job with their preparation and how they handle the meets. "It doesn't matter if we're swimming Colorado Mesa, if we're swimming Stanford or if we're swimming each other in practice — we have to be much better at details," he said. i.smith@chronicle.utah.edu @ISmithAtTheU U tah was back at the Huntsman Center on Friday and Sunday after spending the last two weekends on the road, where it went 0-4.The Utes seemed glad to be home, as they swept both of their matchups, first against No. 19 USC and then No. 15 UCLA on Sunday afternoon. The first sweep against the Trojans came in front of almost 1,500 fans on blackout night. So how did the Utes get so many fans to come to the match? They gave away black Utah beanies to the first 250 fans. "I really think it's the beanies," said head coach Beth Launiere. "It is just nice to be home." In the match against UCLA, there were no beanies for the fans, but the Utes did come out in black jerseys for the second straight match after getting approval from Launiere. The performance was just as impressive against the Bruins as it was against the Trojans. "The crowd helped us tremendously," said senior Chelsey Schofield-Olsen. "Especially when they are serving, I know, for me, it gets in my head, and I can tell it was getting into their heads." With the two wins, Utah is now 4-2 at home in Pac-12 play with its other two wins coming against No. 17 Arizona State and a winless California team. WHERE IN THE WORLD CAN I GET MY GEN ED CREDITS? GEOG 1750 - GREATEST SNOW ON EARTH: GEOGRAPHY OF SKIING 11 BF GEOG 1350 - THE GEOGRAPHY OF TATTOO : MARKS OF DISTINCTION OR DEFAMATION? Class Meetings T, H 2:00-3:20 PM Class Meetings T 3:40-6:40 PM 3 Credit Hours 3 Credit Hours ob. ty Anae's New Position Heading into last weekend, Launiere suggested there would be some lineup changes but didn't specify what those changes would be. One change was moving Adora Anae to the back row. This meant she would be on the court for all six rotations instead of getting subbed out after three. With Utah's two-setter system, Anae would come into the match for a setter while senior Shelby Dalton would come out for a setter, meaning that the Utes would always have either Anae or Dalton in the front row and one of their two setters in the back row. The position change was a success, as Anae recorded 17 kills and 14 digs over the weekend. "I really had total confidence in her. She had a good week of practice; she's been working hard at passing all season long in anticipation of maybe having this chance,' Launiere said. "I thought she came out and did a great job." Anae is a fan of the position change. "I really like the position. My favorite part of the game is defense because you have to be so active in the back," Anae said. "Chelsey [Schofield-Olsen] and the rest of the back row helped me a lot." Milestone for Cygan Junior setter Kendall Cygan finished Friday night's match against the Trojans with 23 assists, bringing her career assist total to 1,696, just two short of Cheryl Tye, who ranks tenth on Utah's career assists list. Cygan added 16 more assists on Sunday to surpass Tye and enter Utah's top 10. "It's insane being a junior and being in the top 10. I'm ready to keep going up. I know I can get to seventh this season, and by the end of my career hopefully I'm fifth or sixth': Cygan said. "Credit to the passers, credit to the hitters, 'cause they're the ones that get me the kills." Cygan would need 84 more assists in the team's final six matches to make seventh on the list. "Kendall is a competitive kid, and she finds a way to get on the court and finds a way to win, and that's why she's in the position that she is in',' Launiere said. b.jasarevic@chronicle.utah.edu @BenJasarevic Tuesday Special: 99t I/1 lb Hamburgers! all day long with purchaza of Friar., drink, onion ringz, or zucchini criaz. Department of GEOGRAPHY THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Since 1981 (1 per purchase, you save $2.30) University Location 222 S. 1300 E. • 582-7200 Also at: 7800 S. State • 255-5900 |