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| Kyle Kammer |
ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- The Miner swimming team has a long winning streak going at the Washington University Invitational -- and its 200-point victory this weekend extended that run of wins in the annual January meet.
UMR added eight first place finishes Saturday -- including completing a sweep of the relays -- to the six it won Friday to finish with a total of 957 points, exactly 200 ahead of Washington University's total of 757.
Matt Hug won the 500-yard freestyle as he finished just under six seconds in front of teammate Andrew Trowbridge, recording a time of 4:37.78 to Trowbridge's 4:43.03. Hug added a win in the 1,650-freestyle Saturday in a time of 16:00.32, while Travis Stensby was a double winner as well by taking a pair of events on day two. Stensby won the 100-backstroke in 51.85 seconds and later took first in the 100-butterfly in 51.69 seconds.
Matt Adams also came away with a win in the 100-yard breaststroke with a mark of exactly one minute as UMR claimed the first four spots in that event with the those four finishing barely over a second apart. Brian Howell took first as well in the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 1:58.80 as did Chris Scheuber in the 50-freestyle with a winning mark of 21.28 seconds and Matt Hammond in the 200-breaststroke in 2:09.36.
Kyle Kammer had a winning performance in the 200-backstroke in 1:54.76 and then took second in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 1:58.93, while runner-up finishes were also recorded by David Calcara also took second in the 100-breaststroke in 1:00.17, Dustin Spieker in the 200-backstroke in 1:58.56, Trowbridge in the 1,650-free in 16:01.91, Adams in the 100-butterfly in 52.39 and Rory Swift in the 100-backstroke in 55.64 seconds.
Third place showings came from Spieker in the 200-IM in 2:02.29 and 400-IM in 4:18.34, Bill Gaul in the 100-breaststroke in 1:00.64, Mark Chamberlain in the 100-freestyle in 48.20 seconds and the 200-free in 1:47.88, Calcara in the 200-breaststroke in 2:11.53 and Hug in the 200-butterfly in 1:59.74.
Hammond had fourth place finishes in the 100-breaststroke in 1:01.01 and 100-backstroke in 56.30 as did Swift in the 200-backstroke in 2:02.17 and the 50-freestyle in 22.01. Kammer took fourth in the 200-freestyle in 1:48.51 and Calcara in the 400-IM in 4:18.53, while Chamberlain came in fifth in the 200-individual medley along with Howell in the 400-individual medley in 4:18.70.
In the 200-yard medley relay, the Miner team of Stensby, Gaul, Adams and Scheuber won the event in a time of 1:35.48, while the 800-freestyle relay quartet of Hug, Chamberlain, Adams and Kammer won with a time of 7:04.80 to win that relay by six seconds.
The results in the relays were just as good for the Miners Saturday with wins in the 400-medley, 200-freestyle and 400-freestyle events.
The 400-medley group of Kammer, Calcara, Stensby and Chamberlain won in 3:28.08, then the 200-free relay team of Chamberlain, Scheuber, Kammer and Adams finished first in 1:24.73. The 400-freestyle team of Hug, Adams, Chamberlain and Scheuber completed the relay sweep by posting a win by nearly three seconds in that event with a time of 3:10.31.
UMR will compete in a dual meet at Truman State Friday in Kirksville, Mo., which will be its final meet prior to the New South Intercollegiate Swimming Championships that begin Feb. 14.
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