GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.— Competing against only NCAA Division I opponents, the Colorado Mesa University swimming and diving teams combined for a dozen more top-5 finishes on the second and final day of the Eighth annual Intermountain Shootout, Saturday here at the El Pomar Natatorium.
 
The top finishes came from senior Morgan Bean in the men's 100-yard butterfly and divers Noah Macomber and Kenzie Smith, who all finished third.
 
Bean clocked a time of 51.30 seconds while teammate Chris Radomski, a runner-up in Friday's 50 fly, took fourth in 51.68.
 
Macomber, a sophomore, scored 282.15 points on the 3-meter board, just shy of the NCAA qualification standard of 295.  He won the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference title in that event last year and went to earn all-America honors with a seventh place finish at the NCAA Division II National Championships.
 
Senior Sage D'Ambrosia finished fourth on Saturday with 281 points after he met the national qualifying standard on the 1-meter board on Friday evening.
 
Meanwhile, Smith, a freshman from Rockford, Michigan, scored 212 points in the women's 1-meter event in her collegiate debut of that discipline.  Sophomore Kelsey Vreeman, who won the 3-meter on Friday evening, took fifth in the 1-meter with 204.85 points.

Maddie McClain was the lone Maverick female swimmer to earn a top 5 finish on Saturday as she clocked a time of 5:16.70 to finish fifth in the 500 free.
 
Freshman Torsten Rau took fourth in the men's version of that event with a time of 4:47.14 while Noah Beaver finished fifth in the 100 free, touching the wall in 47.70 seconds.
 
The Maverick men also had three relay teams place highly on Saturday.  The 200 free "A" team of Sky Hirsch, Radomski, Bean and Cody Klaiber began the day with a time of 1:26.45, good for fourth.  The "B" squad of Eric Berg, Beaver, Tim Lim and Saif Ezzat Sayed finished fifth in 1:26.94.
 
­Jerry Veneris, Travis Newland, Jason Hicks and Rau then capped the meet with a fifth place time of 3:13.63 in the 400 free relay.
 
Throughout the 2-day, 42-event season-opening meet, the Mavericks combined for 21 top-5 finishes.
 
In the final team scores, kept in a dual meet format, the Maverick men fell short of Air Force (305-85) and BYU (261 ½-125 ½).  Air Force defeated BYU, 228-165.
 
The Maverick women were out-pointed by Air Force (274 ½-118 ½), BYU (281-112) and Colorado State (280-113).  Colorado State won the other two head-to-head women's match-ups as well.
 
The Mavericks will have next weekend off before resuming their season on Oct. 21 against Air Force and RMAC rival Colorado Mines on the United States Air Force Academy campus north of C­olorado Springs.