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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Miner swimming team posted its highest result at a national meet since 1998 by completing a fourth place finish Saturday night at the NCAA Division II Swimming Championships.
Thanks to two All-America efforts and one more school record performance, the Miners finished with a total of 299 points at the national meet to hold off California-San Diego, which ended up with 287. Drury won the national title by a whopping margin, scoring 665.5 points to beat North Dakota (485) and Wayne State (Mich.), who finished with 360 points.
Matt Hug posted his best finish of the national meet Saturday with his third school record performance of the meet, taking third in the 1,650-yard freestyle in a time of 15:38.75. The time broke the mark he set in the event back in December at Arkansas-Little Rock.
In addition, Hug toppled the mark in the 1,000-freestyle during the course of that race by swimming the first 1,000 in 9:26.60; he had set the record on the first day of the national meet.
UMR also got one more All-America performance from a relay team as the 400-yard freestyle relay quartet of Chris Scheuber, Mark Chamberlain, David Sanchez-Turner and Matt Adams finished in seventh place with a time of 3:05.86.
Andrew Trowbridge took 11th in the 1,650-freestyle in 16:16.58 to gain honorable mention All-America status in the meet, as did Travis Stensby in the 200-yard backstroke in 1:52.26. UMR also got a 14th-place showing from Kyle Kammer in that event as he posted a time of 1:52.97
UMR also had two finishers among the top 16 in the 200-yard breaststroke as Matt Hammond came in 11th in 2:06.18 and David Calcara finished 12th in 2:06.97 in the finals.
Over the course of the four-day meet, the Miners established nine new school records, had all 12 of its individuals in the meet earn All-America honors and those 12 earned a total of 37 All-America awards -- including the relays -- of which 17 came on an individual basis.
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