COLUMBIA, Mo. – Missouri S&T’s swimming team opened its season Saturday with a number of high finishes at the Show-Me Showdown at the University of Missouri, as the Miners had nine among the top four in various events.
Andy Schranck won the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 51.14 seconds and met the B-cut standard in the event for the NCAA Division II Championships. Schranck, who had four individual finishes among the top three in events Saturday, also hit a B-cut in the 200-yard individual medley with his third place time of 1:56.15 and recorded showings of second in the 50-yard butterfly in 23.39 seconds and third in the 100-yard individual medley in 52.62 seconds.
In addition, Schranck led off the Miners’ 400-yard freestyle relay team that took third along with freshman Sean Deegan, David Sanchez-Turner and Hamilton Vernon, as they posted a time of 3:11.33.
Andrew Trowbridge finished fourth in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:42.75 as did three of S&T’s relay teams. The Miners’ 200-yard freestyle relay team of Deegan, Sanchez-Turner, Schranck and Vernon placed fourth in a time of 1:26.36, while the Miners also got fourths from their 400-medley relay quartet of Jeff Enge, Zlatan Hamzic, Schranck and Sanchez-Turner also took fourth in 3:31.35 and the 200-medley relay in 1:36.51.
Hamzic put a fifth place finish on the board in the 50-yard breaststroke in 27.23 seconds and was sixth in the 100-yard breaststroke in 58.95 seconds, missing the B-cut standard by five-hundredths of a second.
Enge finished sixth in the 200-IM in 1:57.59 and seventh in the 100-yard backstroke with a mark of 52.80 seconds, while Danny Murphy took seventh in the 500-freestyle in 4:46.86.
Zach Lemons was ninth in the 100-breaststroke in 59.92, just over a second off the B-cut standard in the event and Paul Reinisch also placed ninth in the 50-yard butterfly in 24 seconds flat.