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tucker, kiel lead swimmers over spartans BY BRANDAN ALFORD BrandanAlford@Gmail.com swept the diving events. Tucker's 100-freestyle and Kiel's 200-backstroke times were he men's swimming and div- quick enough to earn NCAA Proing team opened the new visional qualifying times while year with a 190-102 victory Friday at Michigan State before falling 153-90 to top-ranked Michigan the next day. Against the Spartans, three individuals posted multiple victories in the dual meet to pace the Boilers. Danny Tucker, Brian Kiel and Alec Back each topped Brian Kiel Lauren Gustafson the podium at least twice with Tucker earning four both of Back's dives qualified for victories between individual and NCAA zone scores. relay events, winning the 50- and In the loss to the Wolverines, 100-meter freestyle events and Purdue struggled to post victoadding wins in the 200-medley ries, but had several high finishand 400-freestyle relay events. ers. Tucker added another victory Kiel won both the 100- and in the 100 freestyle to go with a 200-meter backstroke events third-place finish in the 50 freeas well as the 200 IM while Back style. Manuel Gutierrez finished T second in the 500-meter freestyle event and third in the 200-meter freestyle. Freshman Layne Rogers won the three-meter dive event as Purdue swept the top three finishers. The Boilers also won the 200-freestyle relay event. Purdue will travel to Dallas this weekend to compete in the Classic at SMU. The women's team earned a 165-124 win over Michigan State over the weekend, as well. Lauren Gustafson, Nika Petric and Rhiannon Sheets all won multiple events for the Boilers in the team victory. Gustafson swept the 50 and 100 freestyle events to go with relay events in the 200 medley and the 400 freestyle. Petric won the distance freestyle events with wins in the 500- and 1,000-meter competitions while Sheets posted wins in the 100and 200-meter butterfly while teaming with Gustafson in the 400 freestyle relay. ity before notching wins over Butler and IUPUI, 4-0 and 7-0 respectively. Purdue will be back in action on Saturday with two more home matches against DePaul and IPFW. The women's side will open the spring campaign when it hosts the Purdue Invitational. Track and Field drops opening duals Indiana swept Purdue in the Purdue/IU duals to open the indoor track and field season for both the men's and women's teams. The Hoosier men won big with an 80-52 final tally; the women's meet came down to the wire as the Boilers came ... all the fun ... all the food ... all the comfort Tennis opens with sweeps The men's tennis team has started 2013 on a perfect note after three sweeps to open the spring season this weekend. The Boilers defeated Toledo 7-0 at the Schwartz Tennis Facil- ... all the services GoldanDBlack express • volume 23, express 17 • 29