Jan. 16, 2016 Final Stats | Photo Gallery
SAN DIEGO, Calif. - The 2016 Beach Cup concluded on Saturday at the University of San Diego Sports Center Pool. USD (589) placed second in this year's event with seven wins in 18 races. Fresno State won the meet with 817.5 points. Loyola Marymount placed third with 404.5 points and Pepperdine finished fourth with 321 points.
The Toreros started Saturday's action with the team of Jackie Taylor, Bri Jurries, Danielle Deiparine and Danielle Taylor taking second place with a 1:38.46 in the 200 free relay.
Jurries led the Toreros with outstanding performances in the 100 breast (1:05.52) and the 200 breast (2:22.37), winning both events and earning 32 points. The junior from Phoenix, Ariz. also contributed to a USD victory in the 400 free relay (3:31.81).
D. Taylor continued her excellent freshman season with a 56.96 and a first place finish in the 100 fly. In the 200 fly Taylor posted a 2:05.23 while placing third.
J. Taylor earned two second place finishes on Saturday while anchoring three relays. In the 200 free she finished 1:55.49, less than a second off of first and in the 100 free she swam a 52.88.
USD also received strong contributions in the backstroke events from senior Sarah Reierson. Reierson placed second in the 200 back with a 2:10.64 just in front of USD teammate MK Clancy (2:12.05). In the 100 back Reierson earned a third place finish with a 1:00.91. She also contributed to the 400 medley relay team with Jurries and the Taylor sisters that came in second with a 3:55.05.
In the 400 IM Morgan Scarth (4:39.14) and Liza Kuznetsova (4:39.28) earned second and third respectively. Kuznetsova (17:44.67) and teammate Gwen Walter (17:50.04) added second and third place finishes in the 1650 free as well.
Sammi Cohn placed fourth in the 100 breast with a 1:08.74. Overall the Toreros recorded 25 top-five finishes over the tree sessions. Freshman divers Lexi Held and Elizabeth Petty added 24 points over the two days of competition.