GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.— Posting three more NCAA Division II Championship provisional qualifying times and a ten more top-3 finishes, the Colorado Mesa University men's and women's swimming teams fared quite well on Saturday, the second of two days of competition at the Intermountain Shootout.
 
The Maverick men went 3-1 in the head-to-head duals against the other four teams in the meet, earning hard-fought 206-202 win over the United States Air Force Academy and blow-out wins over Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference rival Adams State University (342-47) and the CMU Club Team (337-36).  The victory over the Falcons, which was clinched in the final race of the day, was CMU's first in 21 all-time dual meets against Air Force and was just CMU's second over a Division I opponent in the program's history.
 
Meanwhile, the CMU women also claimed their first Division I win in nearly five years, more than doubling up on Dixie State, 277-123, while going 4-4 in the eight separately scored dual meets.  The Mavericks also easily extended their RMAC winning streak to 27 with dominant victories over CSU Pueblo (335-67) and Adams State (354-41).  The Maverick varsity squad also defeated the club team, 345-32 and put up valiant efforts against the other four Division I teams in the meet (Air Force, BYU, Colorado State and Northern Colorado).
 
The Colorado State women and BYU men were the unofficial overall victors as each outfit went undefeated in the multiple-dual format.
 
Individually, the Mavericks won four events throughout the meet, including one on Saturday as Lily Borgenheimer claimed the 200-yard breaststroke in two minutes, 20.19 seconds, one of the CMU's three NCAA "B" cut times of the day. 
 
Lauren White also posted her second such time of the weekend as she took second in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 2:03.59 after she set a NCAA time in the 200 free and winning the 100 back on Friday evening.
 
On the men's side, Serbian freshman Dejan Urbanek easily eclipsed the "B" standard in the 200 fly with a time of 1:50.49, which with the 1.2 second altitude-adjustment puts him third on CMU's all-time performers' chart at 1:49.29.  He took second in that event.
 
Throughout the meet, the Mavericks also combined for 45 top-5 finishes, more than half of which (23) came on Saturday.
 
Earlier, Ben Sampson, Mahmoud Elgayar, Urbanek and Mado Elkady, making his collegiate debut, took second in the 200 medley relay with a time of 1:30.66. 
 
Elgayar than finished third in the 50 breast, touching in 26.64 seconds before Kuba Kiszczak finished fifth in the 500 free (4:46.27).  Notably, BYU's Tanner Martin won the event by nearly eight seconds with a pool record time of 4:27.23, a mark that is an NCAA Division I Championship provisional qualifying time.  Former CMU standout Sam Bryant had held the former pool record of 4:28.13 since 2017.
 
Sampson, who won the 100 back and placed second in the 100 IM on Friday, then completed his podium position trifecta taking third in the 200 IM at 1:54.93.
 
The Maverick mean also received a solid fifth place effort from Felipe D'Orsi (46.56) in the 100 free and went 3-4-5 in the 200 back with Lane Austin (1:53.52) edging freshman teammate John Walgast (1:53.54).  Another freshman in Jeremy Koch touched in 1:54.50.
 
Urbanek then took fourth in the 100 fly at 50.88 seconds before Lucas Viana finished the 200 breast in 2:11.20 to finish fifth.
 
The Mavericks also had two top-5 finishes in the 3-meter diving competition as Josh Hamby scored 262.95 points on six dives to take fourth while Tanner Belliston finished fifth with 255.15 points.

Leading by nine points heading into the meet-capping 400 free relay, the Mavericks knew they would need both scorings squads to finish ahead of their Air Force counterparts to win the dual.
 
In the end, both CMU quartets defeated the Falcons' "B unit to claim the history making-dual win.  The "A" team of D'Orsi, Austin, Kiszczak and freshman Keith Elms finished third overall in 3:05.30 while the "B" squad of Elkady, Sampson, Matheus Laperreire and Makai Duport touched in 3:06.01 to take fourth after the Air Force "B" team had finished during an earlier heat in 3:13.47.
 
Borgenheimer and White were the unquestioned stars for the CMU women, unsurprisingly so considering both earned six CSCAA All-America honors last year.  They teamed with Logan Anderson and Izzy Powers to take fifth in the 200 medley relay (1:47.540 before Borgenheimer finished fourth in the 50 breast at 30.42 as a warm-up for her 200-yard win.
 
White, Kelsea Wright, Ruby Bottai and Powers also capped the meet with a third place 400 free relay finish in 3:33.33.
 
Jolynn Harris, the 2021 NCAA Division II runner-up, also finished third in the 1-meter diving event with 246.80 points while teammate Ali Lange took fifth with a score of 233.50.
 
The Mavericks will also be at home for their next meets on Oct. 22 and 23 as they will welcome in Augustana (S.D.), Colorado School of Mines and Western Colorado's women in for a pair of men's triangular and women's quadrangular meets.