Miner swimmers end home season on winning note

Matt Hug

The Miner swimming team wrapped up its home schedule Friday night with a convincing 133-72 win over Truman State at the Missouri S&T Pool, winning 10 of the 11 events on the evening.

The Miners won both relay events (the second was an exhibition), with the team of Kyle Kammer, Mark Chamberlain, David Calcara and Kyle Gordon taking the 400-yard medley relay in 3:29.69 and the 400-freestyle relay group of Gordon, David Sanchez-Turner, Chamberlain and Matt Hug posting the best time in that event of 3:09.41.

Hug won two events on an individual basis, taking the 200-yard freestyle in 1:42.73 and adding a win in the 500-freestyle later in the evening in 4:40.61.

The Miners also got first place finishes from Andrew Trowbridge in the 1,000-freestyle in 9:41.97, Gordon in the 50-freestyle in 21.92 seconds, Jeff Enge in the 200-individual medley in 1:57.08, Dustin Spieker in the 200-butterfly in 1:56.06, Kammer in the 200-backstroke in 1:55.75 and Zlatan Hamzic in the 200-breaststroke in 2:07.67.

Second place efforts came from Danny Murphy in the 1,000 in 9:48.73, Sanchez-Turner in the 200-free in 1:46.61, Zach Lemons in the 200-IM in 1:59.20, Chamberlain in the 100-freestyle in 48.15, Aaron Schmidt in the 200-backstroke in 1:59.97, Trowbridge in the 500-free in 4:45.86 and Calcara in the 200-breaststroke in 2:09.92.

Murphy took third in the 200-IM in 1:59.61 to help the Miners sweep the top three spots in that event, while Lemons (2:00.02 in the 200-butterfly), Sanchez-Turner (48.25 in the 100-freestyle) and Enge (4:47.46 in the 500-free) also recorded third place efforts.

The meet was the final home meet for five Miner seniors -- Calcara, Chamberlain, Hug, Spieker and Rory Swift, who had a fourth place showing in the 200-backstroke Friday.

S&T's next competition will be in the New South Intercollegiate Swimming Championships which begins Feb. 13 at Delta State University in Cleveland, Miss.