The Gophers' Sarah Bacon, a sixth-year senior, won the 3-meter diving title for the second year in a row on Friday night in the NCAA swimming and diving meet in Atlanta.
Gophers diver Sarah Bacon wins second 3-meter title at NCAA meet
The Indianapolis native, who finished second in 1-meter diving the day before, won her second 3-meter national title on Friday. That gives her five NCAA diving titles in all.
March 19, 2022 at 5:23AM
Needing a score of 65.95 on her final dive to finish first, she got a 78.00 for a 409.25 total. Indiana's Kristen Hayden finished second (397.20).
Bacon, and Indianapolis native, went into the finals as the top seed after taking first in the preliminaries with her total of 386.25. She finished with two monster scores, a 79.05 on her fifth dive and a 73.50 on her sixth.
She now has five national titles in all, including three in 1-meter diving (2018, '19 and '21). She was the runner-up in 1-meter on Thursday for the second time (2017).
Stanford freshman Regan Smith of Lakeville finished third in the 100-yard backstroke (49.96 seconds). Katharine Berkhoff of North Carolina State won the race (48.74), breaking Smith's American record of 49.16 set last year. Isabelle Stadden of Blaine, a sophomore at Cal, finished seventh.
Going long in discus
The Gophers' Shelby Frank, a sophomore from Grand Forks, N.D., won the women's discus in the Black & Gold Invitational in Orlando, Fla., with a throw of 185 feet, 3 inches — that's the second longest in program history.
Her throw was almost 12 feet farther than the runner-up.
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The Lynx announced their two-game preseason schedule before their 24th WNBA season. They will play the Mystics in Washington at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 27 and then host the Las Vegas Aces at 1 p.m. Sunday, May 1 at Target Center.
St. Cloud State men's basketball coach Matt Reimer and his coaching staff will not return next season, the NSIC school announced. Reimer recently completed his eighth season as Huskies coach. He had a 129-102 record with a pair of NCAA Division II tournament appearances in 2018 and 2019.
The No. 8 Gophers gymnastics team will compete in the Big Ten meet on Saturday in Columbus, Ohio. Minnesota is the defending champion and will compete in the evening session starting at 4:30 p.m. (BTN) with No. 3 Michigan, No. 12 Michigan State and the host Buckeyes.
Hamline forward Sophie Rausch and Gustavus defenseman Kayla Vrieze were selected to the AHCA All-America West Division III first team in women's hockey.
The Gophers lost 4-1 at Illinois in tennis. Maria Rizzolo got the one win for Minnesota at No. 4 singles, beating Megan Heuser 6-2, 7-6 (7-4).
Jack Kelly went 3-for-5 with a triple and double and Boston Merila had a two-run single but the Gophers lost 5-4 at Creighton in nonconference baseball.
Mahtomedi got 14 kills each from senior outside hitter Kaili Malvey and senior middle blocker Silvie Graetzer, helping the Zephyrs beat visiting South St. Paul 25-17, 25-18, 25-10.
