USAFA, Colo.—  A dominating 1,000-yard freestyle win by freshman Jacob Troescher, who later came back to take second in the 500 free, and a 100 back 1-2 finish by fellow freshman Andrew Scoggin and Jeremy Koch led the Colorado Mesa University men's swimming and diving team to a dual-meet split on Friday evening here at the United States Air Force Academy's Cadet Natatorium.
 
The Mavericks also received three combined national qualification scores on the diving boards from Tanner Belliston and Noah Luna.
 
The CMU men, without the services of a few of their top swimmers, were able to extend their now 6-year Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference dual-meet winning streak to 12 with a 149-87 win over the Colorado School of Mines but were not able to duplicate their October, 2021 home win over the NCAA Division I Falcons, who claimed a 136-104 victory in their Senior Night meet.  The Falcons also defeated the Orediggers, 146-82 in the other leg of the tri-meet, the first of 2022 for each squad.
 
The Mavericks, ranked fourth in the latest CSCAA Division II Top 25 Coaches' Poll, are now 8-3 overall and 4-0 in RMAC duals this season with three wins over the nation's 16^th-ranked Orediggers.  Their eight overall wins are equal to their program record.
 
The Maverick women also extended their RMAC dual-meet winning streak to 32 with a 185-51 drubbing of Mines and tied the Falcons, 121-121.
 
In the 1,000 free, the second event of the night, Troescher posted a time of ten minutes, 2.85 seconds to win by more than 18 ½ seconds.  The Eagle, Idaho native then touched in 4:53.81 during the 500 free.
 
In the 100 back, Scoggin finished in 51.31 seconds while Koch touched in 51.95 seconds for one of the Mavs' eight total second place finishes throughout the night.
 
Two of those came on the diving boards as Belliston took second on the 1-meter with a 6-dive score of 291.23 points before finishing third on the 3-meter with a career-best score of 305.10 points.  Both marks surpassed the NCAA Division II qualifying standards of 285 and 295 points.
 
Luna, competing for the first time this season, finished second on the 3-meter with a career-best 310.13 points to join Belliston as a national qualifier.
 
The Mavs also finished second in both relays to book-end the night.    The 200 medley relay team of Lane Austin, Matt Barret, Treven Wertz and Felipe D'Orsi finished in 1:33.35 while the 200 free squad  of Austin, D'Orsi, Scoggin and Kuba Kiszczak touched in 1:25.29 in a tight finish with both the Orediggers (1:25.23) and Falcons (1:25.78).  All three teams were within 55 hundredths of a second of each other.
 
Jake Simmons led CMU in the 400 IM, finishing second in 4:21.09 while Troescher, who competed in all three of the longest swimming events, placed sixth in 4:27.42.
 
The Mavs also went 2-4 in the 100 breast with Matt Barrett finished in 57.90 seconds while Lucas Viana was clocked in 59.72 seconds to take fourth.  Barrett also won the second heat and placed third overall in the 100 free at 47.17 seconds.  Kiszczak was third in the higher-seeded heat and fourth overall in 47.88 after he placed third In the 200 free at 1:45.63.
 
In the 50 free, Felipe D'Orsi led the Mavs, taking third in 21.69 seconds. 
 
In the 100 fly, Lane Austin finished fourth (51.90) while Treven Wertz was right behind in 51.99 to place fifth.

The Mavericks will next compete on Jan. 21 in a tri-meet at BYU in Provo, Utah.  The University of Denver Pioneers will also compete.