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Friday, November 5, 2010

Miner swimmers down defending NCAA Division II champion Panthers

ROLLA, Mo. - Missouri S&T's swimming team continued its success against Drury in home dual meets Friday night, earning wins in six of the 11 events to come away with a 111-93 victory over the defending NCAA Division II champions at the S&T Pool.

The Miners came away victorious in both relays Friday, while senior Jeff Enge and sophomore Matt Welsh won two events apiece to help lead S&T in the meet. Enge took first in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 1:55.73, then captured the 200-yard backstroke later in the meet in 1:53.82.
Welsh had strong performances in the two distance freestyle events, beating defending NCAA champion Chris Jacobsen by nearly six seconds in the 1,000-yard freestyle in 9:48.78 and claiming the 500-yard event with a three-second win over DU's Mark Grijalva in 4:46.53.

S&T opened the meet by winning the 400-yard medley relay, as the team of Enge, Zlatan Hamzic, Andrew Schranck and Jacob Dole set the first of three pool records established Friday by posting a mark of 3:26.80. The Miners' 400-yard freestyle relay quartet of Hayden Price, Dole, Schranck and Sean Deegan closed the night by winning that race in 3:09.85.

The Miners got second place efforts Friday from Deegan in the 200-freestyle in 21.85 seconds and 100-freestyle in 47.42 seconds, Zach Lemons in the 200-yard individual medley in 1:56.17, Schranck in the 200-butterfly in 1:53.20 and Hamzic in the 200-breaststroke in 2:09.46.

Danny Murphy (1:46.47 in the 200-freestyle and 4:49.77 in the 500-freestyle), Hamzic (two minutes flat in the 200-IM), Phil Arve (1:55.26 in the 200-butterfly),  Dole (48.22 in 100-freestyle), Lemons (2:09.87 in the 200-breaststroke) and Price (1:59.11 in the 200-backstroke) had third place showings in their respective events.

The other two pool records set Friday came from Drury's Jun Han Kim, who set marks in the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 1:50.76 and in the 200-yard breaststroke with a mark of 2:04.56.
The Miners' next meet will take place on Nov. 20 and 21 when they compete in the Washington University Invitational in St. Louis.

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