PROVO, Utah— The Colorado Mesa University men's and women's swimming diving team combined for four more wins and five other second place finishes as the Mavericks maintained their second place position in the final standings of the BYU Tri Meet, which pit the Mavs against the host Cougars and another NCAA Division I opponent in Air Force this weekend here at the Richards Building Pool.
 
After opening the meet with a Friday evening win in the 400-yard medley relay, the Maverick women claimed three more wins on Saturday as the Mavs claimed the 200 medley relay before Benedict Nagy and Agata Naskret were victorious in the 400 individual medley and 100 back, respectively.
 
Those wins helped the Mavs finish with 594 team points as they finished 15 ahead of Air Force, which totaled 579.  BYU won the meet with 766.
 
On the men's side, the Mavs tallied 623 points, well ahead of Air Force's total of 375.  BYU again won the team race with 921 points.
 
The wins over Air Force were the second of the season for the Mavs, who had also defeated the Falcons in duals during the season-opening Intermountain Shootout.
 
CMU's efforts were led by Ben Sampson, who claimed his second event win of the meet in the 400 IM.
 
Naskret, Maddi Moran, Kiara Borchardt and Elli Williams started the day with the medley relay win in a time of 1:43.98.
 
Nagy then claimed the 400 IM in 4:31.67 while teammate Sophia Bains was second in 4:33.23. 
 
Borchardt then took second in the 100 fly with a time of 57.19 seconds before fellow Maverick sophomore Ada Qunell claimed another runner-up finish in the 200 free (1:54.19).
 
Moran then paced the Maverick women in the 100 breast with a fourth place time of 1:06.67 before Naskret won the 100 back in 55.98 seconds.
 
Qunell, Williams, Olivia Hansson and Lauren White then finished the meet with a third place time of 3:29.72 in the 400 free relay.
 
Sampson's winning 400 IM time of 4:01.41 was more than 4 ½ seconds quicker than his nearest opposition in Air Force's James Winterfield and highlighted the Maverick men's effort of the day.  He also had two runner-up finishes, taking second in the 100 back at 48.73 before teaming with Aziz Ghaffari, Jameson McEnaney and Andrew Scoggin for a 400 free relay time of 3:01.72.
 
Elsewhere, the Mavs took third in the 200 medley relay as Scoggin, Max Ayres, Dejan Urbanek and Kuba Kiszczak finished third in the 200 medley relay at 1:31.95 while Ghaffari took fifth in the 200 free at 1:42.97.
 
Ayres also had a fifth place time of 57.57 in the 100 breast before Scoggin took fourth in the 100 back at 50.00.
 
The Mavs also had a pair of top five finishes in the 1650 free as Jacob Troescher took fourth in 16:38.62 while Urbanek was fifth in 16:56.86. 
 
On the diving boards, Isaiah Cheeks set NCAA qualifying scores in both events, placing third in the men's 1-meter on Friday evening with 288.35 points before taking fifth in the 3-meter competition with 310.00 points.  Freshman Jax Juarros was fourth in the 3-meter with 315.30 points while fellow freshman Ty Mitton took fourth on the 1-meter in the 283.85 points.
 
Meanwhile, Jenna Hurley placed fourth in the women's 3-meter event on Friday before Kenya Meyer was sixth in Saturday's 1-meter to lead the Maverick women's divers.
 
CMU's divers will compete in two weeks at the Air Force Diving Invite while the Maverick swimmers will next compete in the Feb. 13-17 RMAC Championships, which CMU will host at the El Pomar Natatorium.