CLEVELAND, Miss. -- A strong performance on the third night of the New South Intercollegiate Swimming Championships has pushed the Missouri S&T swimming team into the lead in the competition with one night remaining.
The Miners claimed the top two spots in the 200-yard freestyle and had 12 individuals finish among the top eight in events Friday, as well as seeing its 800-yard freestyle relay team take third and the B-relay in the same event win the consolation race to give S&T a sizeable advantage in the team standings.
Freshman Kyle Gordon won the 200-free by a narrow margin over teammate David Sanchez-Turner, as Gordon finished in 1:43.13 to Sanchez-Turner's 1:43.15. The Miners also got a second place showing from another freshman, Zlatan Hamzic, in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 57.47 seconds.
The Miners went 3-4-5 in the 100-yard backstroke finals Friday, as Aaron Schmidt came in third in 52.22 seconds, Brian Howell in fourth with a mark of 52.45 and Kyle Kammer fifth in 52.68. Rory Swift also won the consolation finals in 53.48 seconds.
In the 400-yard individual medley, Dustin Speiker was one of three Miners to finish among the top eight as his time of 4:05.80 was good for fourth place. Jeff Enge came in fifth in 4:06.63 and Danny Murphy was eighth in 4:09.87. The Miners also got a win in the consolation finals of the event as well as Zach Lemons won that race in a time of 4:05.92.
The other top eight finishes Friday were recorded by Kammer in the 100-butterfly in 51.79 seconds, which put him in seventh place, Mark Chamberlain in that same event in 51.84 and David Calcara in the 100-breaststroke with an eighth place mark of 59.04 seconds.
The team of Enge, Sanchez-Turner, Howell and Matt Hug finished third in the 800-free relay with a time of 6:54.52, while the B-relay group of Andrew Trowbridge, Murphy, Spieker and Chamberlain finished ninth in 7:01.47.
S&T's performance Friday put it 44 points in front of Ouachita Baptist heading into the final day of competition, as the Miners have 555 1/2 points to OBU's 510 1/2. Both teams are over 100 points ahead of third place Delta State.
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