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Wolfpack Fall Invitational
Vols Earn Three Wins on Day 2 at NC State
November 18, 2016 | Swimming & Diving
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Tennessee's Sam McHugh, Liam Stone and Meghan Small earned victories Friday to wrap up the second evening of competition at the NC State GAC Invitational.
Through two days of the meet, the Vols are fifth the women's standings and sixth in the men's.
McHugh and Small swept the 400-yard individual medley for the Vols. McHugh won the men's competition with a time of 3 minutes, 42.54 seconds, winning by nearly three seconds. He had finished second in the 200 IM.
Small swam the fifth-fastest 400 IM in program history, winning in 4:11.92. She was also second in the 200 IM. Fellow freshman Tess Cieplucha was ninth in 4:17.75, taking first in the consolation final.
Stone earned a victory on the 3-meter springboard with a score of 380.15, beating out Joe Coumos of Notre Dame by less than six points. He had posted a score of 432.85 in the preliminaries. Senior Michael Howell was 10th (298.45).
Senior Colleen Callahan recorded a second-place finish in the 100 breaststroke (1:00.79).
In other top-16 swimming results: junior Ryan Coetzee finished eighth in the men's 100 butterfly (49.20); junior Peter John Stevens won the consolation final to take ninth overall in the men's 100 breaststroke (53.63); Madeline Banic, Heather Lundstrom and Erika Brown took 14th through 16th in the women's 100 butterfly.
In the diving competition, sophomore Rachel Rubadue backed up her win on 3-meter with a third-place finisher on 1-meter springboard (278.00) and sophomore Emily Pelletier was 10th.
