The Emory University swimming and diving teams hung tight during their dual meet at Georgia Tech on Saturday, but eventually both the men and women suffered losses to their Division I opponents.

The women's side of the meet was particularly close, with the Eagles falling to the Yellow Jackets by just 13 points, with a 156 – 143 score.  The men dropped a 177 – 118 decision to Georgia Tech.

For the men, the Eagles had a pair of event winners, with sophomore Ross Spock winning the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 51.72 seconds, good for an NCAA 'B' cut, and freshman Colin Heil claiming a victory in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 1:53.88.

Senior Patrick Augustyn added a pair of NCAA 'B' cut times with a mark of 1:51.89 in the 200-yard butterfly, good for a second-place finish, and a time of 50.08 seconds in the 100-yard butterfly, placing third in the event.  Junior Miller Douglas added a 'B' cut performance in the 200-yard butterfly, finishing fourth in a time of 1:52.73.

The Emory men added strong scores in the dive events, with senior Daniel Kolb finishing third in both the one- and three-meter dives with NCAA qualifying scores of 307.80 and 309.98, respectively, while junior Kolin Smialek finished fourth in each dive with qualifying scores of 281.25 and 290.48.

Sophomore Sadie Nennig paced the Emory women with first-place finishes and NCAA 'B' cut times in both the 100-yard backstroke (58.07 seconds) and 200-yard backstroke (2:05.67).  Senior Anne Culpepper added a second-place finish and 'B' cut time of 2:05.70 in the 200 back, in addition to a provisional mark of 1:53.10 in the 200-yard freestyle, also good for a second-place finish.

Emory freshmen McKenna Newsum-Schoenberg and Megan Beach added a pair of first-place finishes each.  Newsum-Schoenberg won the 1,000-yard freestyle with a time of 10:23.96 and the 500-yard freestyle with a 'B' cut time of 5:02.65.  Beach claimed the top spot in both the 200-yard breaststroke (2:24.19) and 400-yard individual medley (4:34.80), both 'B' cut times.  Sophomore Brooke Woodward added a 'B' cut time and second-place finish in the 400 IM with a mark of 4:36.13, while senior Jennifer Aronoff finished second in the 100-yard breaststroke with a provisional time of 1:06.32.

Emory also excelled in the women's 200-yard freestyle relay, with two teams recording 'B' cut times.  Freshman Nancy Larson, junior Renee Rosenkranz, sophomore Suzanne Lemberg and sophomore Jennifer Pak finished second with a time of 1:35.84, while junior Anna Dobben, junior Ann Wolber, sophomore Ellen Schafer and senior Claire Pavlak claimed third with a time of 1:36.01.

With the losses, the Emory men fell to 2-5, while the Emory women dropped to 3-5.  The Eagles will wrap up their 2011-12 dual meet season next Saturday at Clemson University at 1:00 PM.