Aggie roundup
Published Monday, March 02, 2009 6:05 AM

SWIMMING

Medrano breaks school record in 200 butterfly: COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Texas A&M freshman Rita Medrano broke the school record in the 200-yard butterfly at a last-chance meet held at the Mizzou Aquatic Center on Sunday afternoon.

Medrano, seeking to better her NCAA consideration time of 1 minute, 57.30 seconds in hopes of qualifying for the NCAA Championships, broke the record for the second straight day. Medrano recorded a time of 1:56.73, chopping more than a half-second off the mark she set a day earlier.

The Aggie women also improved upon their NCAA consideration time in the 200-yard medley relay. The group of Megan Latone, Alia Atkinson, Triin Aljand and Maria Sommer clocked a time of 1:38.32, improving on their time of 1:38.35 that earned them a second-place finish in the Big 12 Championships on Wednesday.

Alia Atkinson earned her first NCAA consideration time of the year in the 200-yard individual medley after hitting the wall in 1:59.44. Atkinson will now swim that race at the NCAA Championships in addition to both breastrokes.

Ella Doerge set a lifetime best of 49.80 in the 100-yard freestyle on Sunday.

Sally Ranzau and Tracey Renfrew each set lifetime bests in the 50-yard freestyle at 25.62 and 24.98, respectively, as did Casey Hurrell-Zitelman (25.17). Leslie Dlugopolski also set a personal best in the 100-yard butterfly (57.59).

The Aggies will learn on Friday how many swimmers qualified for the NCAA Championships. That meet is set for March 19-21 at A&M.

TENNIS

A&M men fall to Louisville: LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Junior Marcus Lunt was the only bright spot for No. 13 Texas A&M in a 6-1 loss to No. 33 Louisville on Sunday at the Bass-Rudd Tennis Center.

Lunt won his second-set tiebreaker to get past Louisville's Robert Hall 6-3, 7-6 (6) at No. 5 singles to improve to 15-8 overall on the season and 5-2 in dual match play. Three remaining singles matches at the No. 2 through No. 4 lines would go down to the wire, but the Cardinals won the third set in each.

Louisville's Austen Childs and Simon Childs defeated A&M's Conor Pollock and Austin Krajicek 8-6, ending the All-America duo's match streak at seven.

The Aggies (3-4) dropped their second-straight road indoor dual match.

The Aggies face No. 29 Boise State (7-5) on Friday in Idaho and No. 41 Washington (8-3) on Sunday in Seattle.

(33) LOUISVILLE 6, (13) TEXAS A&M 1

Sunday at Bass-Rudd Tennis Center in Louisville, Ky.

SINGLES

1. (46) Austen Childs (Louisville) def. (14) Conor Pollock (Texas A&M), 6-4, 6-2.

2. Viktor Maksimcuk (Louisville) def. (35) Wil Spencer (Texas A&M), 6-1, 5-7, 6-4.

3. Simon Childs (Louisville) def. (69) Austin Krajicek (Texas A&M), 6-4, 1-6, 6-2.

4. Alejandro Calligari (Louisville) def. Alexey Grigorov (Texas A&M), 6-2, 4-6, 6-4.

5. Marcus Lunt (Texas A&M) def. Robert Hall (Louisville), 6-3, 7-6 (6).

6. Andrew Carter (Louisville) def. Colin Hoover (Texas A&M), 6-4, 6-2.

DOUBLES

1. (6) Childs-Childs (Louisville) def. (8) Krajicek-Pollock (Texas A&M), 8-6.

2. (33) Robert Rotaru-Calligari (Louisville) def. Austin Klores-Grigorov (Texas A&M), 8-2.

3. Lunt-Spencer (Texas A&M) def. Maksimcuk-Hall (Louisville), 8-6.