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Sports

UH prepares for last home meet of the season

by JONG LEE
The Daily Cougar 

After winning five of their first seven swimming and diving meets, the Cougars will welcome the University of Nevada, Trinity University, the University of New Orleans, Mesa State and crosstown rival Rice to the Campus and Recreational Wellness Center Natatorium for the Phill Hansel Duals Weekend.

"We have six teams that will be competing," head coach Mark Taylor said. "We're all going to compete against each other, although it's a large format. We're scoring the meet against each other, so at the end of the competition on Saturday we'll have five competitions against other teams."

Houston is off to one of its best starts in program history. Oregon State barely edged out the Cougars by five points, and UH put up a good fight against powerhouse Southern Methodist -- something the Cougars have not done in the past -- when it faced the schools Saturday in the Rec Center. 

"We started off with five straight wins, which have never been done before by any swimming-diving team at the University of Houston," Taylor said. "We're pleased, but we're not satisfied that we came up a little short against Southern Methodist and just barely lost on the last relay in the last event against Oregon State."

This will be the last dual meet and the last home meet for the Cougars until January.

"What we're going to do is we're going to take results and look where we need to focus our work, go do real hard work in November and December and just prepare ourselves for the big dual-meet push," Taylor said.
 

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