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Virginia picks up victories

The Virginia men's swimming and diving team won four events and the women won one Sunday at the Texas A&M Fall Invitational.

The No.11 men placed fourth in the competition, scoring 1930.5 points. They won 10 total events during the three-day meet. The No. 13 host Texas A&M won the meet with 2433 points.

The men's winners included Fran Crippen, in the 1500 freestyle (15:02.38), Luke Wagner in the 200 backstroke (1:57.19), Vanja Rogulj sweeping the breaststroke by taking the 200 (2:12.13) and Michael Raab in the 200 butterfly (1:56.68). Raab and Crippen got automatic NCAA qualifying times.

The No. 17 women placed 6th with 955 points. Kimi Kelly won the 1500 meter freestyle with an automatic NCAA qualifying time of 16:10.66.

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