GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.— The Colorado Mesa University Mavericks won seven of the Friday's ten swimming events and opened up sizeable leads over Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference rivals Colorado School of Mines and Dixie State University on Friday afternoon here at the El Pomar Natatorium.
 
The Mavericks also had ten divers set NCAA qualifying marks on the 1-meter board, including two first-time qualifiers.  The results of diving action, highlighted by school and pool-record setting performances by Jolynn Harris and Ammar Hassan were not figured into the team scoring and amounted to an intra-squad battle as the visiting Orediggers and Trailblazers do not have diving programs.
 
Through five of the 18 swimming events, the nation's 13^th ranked Maverick men lead No. 23 Mines, 58-33.  CMU's women, ranked ninth in the latest TYR/CSCAA Division II Coaches Poll, have a 67-24 lead over Mines and a 65-26 cushion over Dixie State.  Mines is up 46-45 on Dixie State in a tight battle of the other leg of the triangular.
 
The rest of the meet will be held Saturday with 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. sessions.
 
In diving, Hassan obliterated his own pool and school record scoring 623.17 points on 11 dives.  His previous record was 599.95 points, which had been set on Nov. 17, 2018.  Noah Macomber was second with 505.73 points while Isaiah Cheeks took third with 483.15 points to become CMU's sixth male diver to qualify for the national meet this season.  Noah Luna (455.92) and Tanner Belliston (449.17) also surpassed the national qualifying standard of 440 points on Friday.
 
On the women's side, Harris scored 478.57 points to surpass the El Pomar Natatorium and Maverick records of 468.07, which had been held by Kelsey Vreeman since 2017.  Brittany Dixon finished second with 456.21 points while Ali Lange (446.84), Natalya Dahlke (426.30) and Kaylee Eakman (394.87) all went above the NCAA qualifying standard of 390 points.  Eakman, who re-joined the team last month, is the fifth Maverick woman to qualify for nationals this season joining the four others.
 
In the swimming pool, the Mavericks won all four relays while Lane Austin, Davy Brown and Torsten Rau all claimed individual event wins.
 
Austin, who also led off on the Mavericks' winning 200-yard freestyle and 400 medley relay teams, won the men's 50-yard freestyle in 21.14 seconds.  Meanwhile, Rau won the men's 1,000-yard freestyle in 4:43.39 while teammate Logan Ellis was second in 4:48.06.
 
Brown, a Maverick freshman, then dominated the women's 200 individual medley, touching in 2:09.40 while junior teammate Grace Payton finished second in 2:11.22.
 
Earlier, the quartet of Bret Congdon, Natalie Saul, Maddie Pressler and Lauren White got things rolling for the Mavs quickly as they posted a time of 1:37.29 in the women's 200 free relay, the first event of the afternoon.    The Mavs' "B" squad of Samantha White, Abbey Desmet, Noel Scott and Logan Anderson was third in 1:39.15.
 
Sophomore Robyn Naze then finished second in the 500 free with a time of 5:16.16, second only to Mines senior sensation Mia Wood, who won in 5:12.35.
 
Scott later took second in the 50 free with a time of 24.90 seconds while Congdon finished third in 24.95.  Natalie Saul also took fourth in 25.02 as the Mavs took three of the top four places behind winner Miriam Gonzalez of Dixie State, who touched in 24.63.
 
Lauren White, Samantha White, Scott and Pressler then capped the day with a dominating win in the 400 medley relay.  They finished in 3:57.74 while the Mavericks' second unit of Sarah Fillerup, Sydney Dolloff-Holt, Bella Walters and Bret Congdon took second in 4:01.82 ahead of the Orediggers and Trailblazer "A" teams.
 
On the men's side, the Mavericks won four of the five swimming events as Austin, George Durin, Noah Vallee and Bailey Usey out-touched Mines to take the 200 free relay in 1:25.27.  Rau then claimed his 500 free win before Migus Wong of Mines took the 200 IM in 1:55.59.  However, the Mavericks were much deeper with the other four top-5 finishes, led by runner-up Justin Fell (1:56.56) and third-place Jake Simmons (1:57.27).
 
Usey also claimed third in the 50 free at 21.47 before Austin, Matthew Barrett, Tucker Adams and Vallee won the 400 medley relay in 3:27.48 to wrap up the day.