Øritsland Wins Three But Nevada Tops UNM
RENO, Nev. — Hedda Øritsland won the 50-yard freestyle and the 100-yard butterfly and swam the anchor of the winning 400-yard individual medley relay, but it wasn’t enough as the Univversity of Nevada picked up 10 wins on the evening as the Wolf Pack defeated UNM 189-109 on Nevada’s senior night.
UNM found itself down 64-29 after the fifth event, winning event two, the long-distance women’s 1,000-yard freestyle. Josie Carpenter, coming from behind with a tremendous closing 50 yards for a win by 3.14 seconds. UNM got back into it with back-to-back wins, getting another win in the 100-yard butterfly from reigning Mountain West swimmer of the week Nicholle Toh and a third-place finish from Jordan Hartley for 12 points. UNM got another 12 in the 50-yard freestyle with the first of three wins from Øritsland.
She picked up the win by just 0.11 seconds in the sprint over Andress Cholodovskis Lima, and Olivia Bishop and Breanna Wiercinski added three more points and UNM got back into the meet down 78-53, but Nevada won the next four races, outscoring UNM 59-16 over those four events to basically seal the meet.
UNM wasn’t done however. Brnydis Bolladottir took a win in the 500-yard freestyle, but UNM couldn’t capitalie, scoring just 10 to Nevada’s nine in the event. Øritsland got win No. 2 in the 100-yard butterfly, just nipping teammate Toh as they went 1-2, but UNM’s only other win would be a scintillating win in the 400-yard individual medley as she swam anchor in front of Olivia Bishop, Wiercinski and Toh.
NOTES: A week after being UNM’s fourth diver and no scoring, Sara Rogers scored five points including a career-best 281.70 in the 1-meter and 317.78 in the 3-meter … Talia Passarelli, who scored 12 points against NMSU including a win, did not swim against Nevada … UNM’s final meet before the conference championships is the Air Force Diving Invitational February 6-8 in Colorado Springs.
| Event | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Total | |
| UNM | 4 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 11 | – | 109 |
| Nevada | 13 | 6 | 13 | 16 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 16 | 16 | 6 | – | 189 |
UNM Individual scoring
Øritsland 18, Bolladottir 14, Toh 13, Carpenter 10, Bishop 7, Rogers 5, Tereda 4, Mariscal 4, Aoki 4, A. Hammond 3, Hartley 3, Wiercinski 3, Zukowski 2, M. Hammond 1, Dark 1, Batista 1, Gallais 1
Wins
1000 Free (Carpenter)
200 Butterfly (Toh)
50 Free (Øritsland)
500 Free (Bolladottir)
100 Butterfly (Øritsland)
400-Freestyle Relay (Bishop, Wiercinski, Toh, Øritsland)