When the LSU women’s swimming and diving team faced Arkansas last week the meet was decided on the final event.The men’s and women’s teams faced Alabama on Friday. While the men’s team (1-1, 1-1)  enjoyed a comfortable 174-124 victory against the Crimson Tide (1-2, 0-1), the Lady Tigers’ meet was once again decided by the last event.”I was thinking not again,” said LSU coach Adam Schmitt.  “This is a week later, and we have to do the same thing. We have to 1-2 to win the meet, and we did it again so that kind of tells you a little something about the team — how they can dig down deep and respond when they need to.”The Lady Tigers (0-2-1, 0-2-1) had to finish first and second in the 400 freestyle relay to avoid defeat, and they accomplished the task and tied the Alabama women (3-0-1, 1-0-1), at 150 behind the clutch swimming of junior Leigh Ann King,King anchored the the Lady Tigers B-relay which captured second to seal the tie.”I haven’t been this nervous in a long time,” King said about the race. “It is time to step up finally, and I just really wanted to do it for my teammates and my coaches. It was really exciting.”The feel of the Alabama rivalry was in the air as fans from both teams filled the stands, and the LSU cheerleaders were in attendance.”The crowd really pumped us up, got us fired up even more than we were to come throw down and just give everything we got,” Selts said.  LSU rewarded the crowd with a host of strong individual performances.Freshman Morgan McGee earned victories in both the 100 and 200 backstroke.”It feels really good to know that I am helping out the team and bringing us up,” McGee said.Sophomore Hannes Heyl earned three individual victories for the men in the 100 back the 200 back and the 50 freestyle.”We had the full house, and that was good,” Heyl said. “I found my rhythm, and it went pretty well.”Both the men and women finished 1-2-3 in the 50 free.Seniors Katherine Noland and Katie Gilmore took first and second and King finished third. For the men it was Heyl, senior Christoph Lubenau and Selts completing the sweep.         “A 1-2-3 is like a grand slam,” Lubenau said. “It’s like the best you can get. It is just awesome.” The men’s team also had first and second-place finishes in the 100 fly and the 100 freestyle.LSU strong performances in the sprint events didn’t carry over to the distance events.”That was an area where we historically had been OK in those events, and we came through here and did a pretty good job,” said Alabama coach Eric Mcllquham.—-Contact Amos Morale at [email protected]