Trojans Finish Regular Season With Win Over Reddies

Results | Scores

LITTLE ROCK – Little Rock swimming and diving closed out the regular season with a 170-125 win over Henderson State and were victorious in 12 of 16 events on Saturday in Arkadelphia.
 
Freshman Laura Ruiz Astorga earned a team-high with three event wins for the day as she took first in the 200-yard freestyle, 50-yard butterfly and 100-yard individual medley. She finished the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:57.93. Kara Knapschaefer finished fourth while Anela Everett came in fifth. In the 50-yard butterfly, Ruiz Astorga finished with a time of 27.69 as teammate Cassie Sanchez took third. In the 100-yard individual medley, Ruiz Astorga came in with a time of 1:01.46. Shayna Underwood finished second and Gallego Murcia finished fifth.

The Trojans earned their first win of the day in the 200-yard medley relay as the team of Shayna Underwood, Nuria Gallego Murcia, Courtney Coe and Emma Doll came in with a time of 1:50.50.
 
The 1,000-yard freestyle saw Tori Fryar come away with a win as she finished with a time of 10:40.21. Kayla Grimm took second as the only other Trojan in the event.
 
 
Underwood earned her first-career event win in the 50-yard backstroke with a time of 28.35 while Madison Brown finished fifth. Underwood later took her second win of the day in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 1:00.67. Fryar finished third, and Grimm came in fifth.
 
Little Rock's Imre van Huyssteen finished first in the 50-yard breaststroke with a time of 32.95, her fastest in the event this season. Gallego Murcia finished just .06 of a second behind her in second place.
 
In the 50-yard freestyle, Doll earned the win with a time of 25.06 in a field of nine. Finishing fourth through eighth were Courtney Goff, Ann Kharlamova, Sanchez, Chelsea Ebert and Anela Everett.
 
Coe came away with the win the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 58.79 as teammate Jinson Kang finished second. Coe earned her second individual win of the day in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 54.75. Kharlamova finished third while Knapschaefer, Ebert, Goff and Brown finished fifth, sixth, eighth and 10th, respectively.
 
Kang finished first in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 5:17.45. Doll, Brown and Everett finished second, fifth and seventh, respectively.
 
In the three-meter dive, Samantha Gray finished second with a score of 252.76, second-best of her career. Gray then finished third in the one-meter event with a score of 201.00.
 
Gallego Murcia finished second in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:10.61. Finishing just .14 behind her was teammate van Huyssteen in third.
 
The final event of the day saw Little Rock take second in the 200-yard freestyle relay. The team of Coe, Ruiz Astorga, Fryar and Doll came in with a time of 1:40 flat.

Little Rock will now prepare for the Missouri Valley Conference Championship beginning on Feb. 17 in Carbondale, Ill., on the campus of Southern Illinois.