GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.— 2021 NCAA Division II Championship 1-meter runner-up
Jolynn Harris booked a return trip to the national championship meet with national-qualifying scores on both diving boards while fellow returning all-Americans
Katerina Matoskova,
Lauren White and
Kelsea Wright all set NCAA provisional qualifying times in the swimming events to lead the Colorado Mesa University Mavericks to another perfect 3-0 day on Saturday here in the El Pomar Natatorium.
Hosting No. 21 Augustana College, No. 23 Colorado School of Mines and Western Colorado University in another CMU Duals quadrangular, the nation's eighth-ranked Maverick women official won ten events and had the top mark in all but three of the 16 contested, en-route to comfortable team wins over all three foes for the second time in 24 hours.
After sweeping the opposition in 13-event format meet on Friday, the Mavericks did it again on Saturday posting a 171-119 win over Augustana, a 168-115 triumph over Mines and a 197-94 victory over Western to improve to 10-4 in match-ups this month and season. The latter two victories also extended CMU's Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference dual-meet winning streak to 31 over almost six years. Six of those wins have come this month.
The Mavericks could have had even bigger margins of victory on Saturday if they had not exhibitioned all of their swimmers in the final three events. CMU swimmers touched first in each of those.
In diving, Harris posted a 6-dive score of 276.40 points in the 1-meter competition before coming back to do the same with a score of 276.05 points on the 3-meter. She is the first Maverick to set NCAA qualifying marks under new CMU diving coach
Billy McGowan.
Teammates
Kyra Apodaca,
Ali Lange and
Carrie Mayer also helped a 1-4 sweep on the 1-meter while Lange placed second on the 3-meter.
In the swimming pool, the Mavericks posted eight official and 11 total wins.
White,
Lily Borgenheimer,
Logan Anderson and
Izzy Powers got things off to a quick start as they won the 400 medley relay in 3:52.74, nearly ten seconds faster than the Mines' top quartet.
Amelia Kinnard was then third in the 1000 free at 11:03.80 before White and Wright both set NCAA qualifying times in the 200 free, an event that they rank first and second in throughout CMU history. White was clocked in 1:52.52 and now ranks second nationally with her altitude-adjusted mark of 1:51.32. Wright touched in 1:54.12 and ranks sixth nationally at 1:52.92.
Ruby Bottai also helped the Mavericks score maximum points in the event as she finished third in 1:55.70.
The Mavs then went 1-4 in the 100 back as Matoskova won it in 57.26 seconds ahead of teammates
Davy Brown (57.54),
Sarah Fillerup (58.33) and
Anna Barjenbruch (58.80).
Borgenheimer then won the 100 breast in 1:05.10.
Later, Powers took second in the 50 free at 24.13 while Anderson (24.40) and
Julie Day (24.91) finished third and fourth, respectively.
Coming out of a break, Brown then posted a thrilling win in the 100 free, touching in 52.44 seconds to edge Mines' Jorie Selig, who was second in 52.46. Anderson, who won an earlier heat, finished third overall in 52.47 while Powers was fourth at 54.14.
Matoskova then had a roller coaster of a 200 backstroke ride. She won the event by 2.36 seconds over White in 2:02.90 but was announced to have been disqualified for a swim-suit logo violation. However, that decision was later self-over-turned by the meet referee as Matoskova's winning altitude-adjusted time of 2:01.70 was allowed to stand in the end. The Czech redshirt freshman ranks second nationally with that mark.
White, the temporary apparent winner, who ranks third in Division II with an earlier season-best of 2:02.39, was clocked in 2:04.26 while Fillerup touched in 2:08.83 to win her heat and place third overall.
Borgenheimer, who won three events for the second straight day, then completed the breaststroke sweep, taking the 200-yard discipline by more than seven seconds in 2:21.03.
Wright then out-touched Matoskova in a thrilling 500 free race. Wright finished in 5:10.75 while Matoskova was second in 5:10.83.
The Mavericks then stopped scoring team points but continued to pull out thrilling wins.
Anderson had the fastest time of 58.92 seconds in the 100 fly, beating Mines' Sophia Buhr, by a single hundredth of a second. They were in different heats. Barjenbruch also broke the minute mark in Buhr's heat with a time of 59.57, the third fastest overall.
After another break, Brown touched first in the 200 IM with a time of 2:07.44 after Borgenheimer had won an earlier heat in 2:08.88. Both of those exhibition times were well faster than Mines' Olivia Kisow, the event's official winner at 2:11.36.
White, Powers, Wright and Brown then completed the meet by touching first in the 400 free relay with a time of 3:30.38. They rank third nationally with the altitude-converted time of 3:29.98.
The Mavericks will resume their season on Nov. 5 competing against a pair of Division I teams from the Mountain West Conference. They will take on triangular host Wyoming and Colorado State that afternoon at 3 p.m. at Laramie High School.
