SALT LAKE CITY— Andrew Scoggin and Ben Sampson each won two events to lead the Colorado Mesa University men while Benedict Nagy won the 150-yard butterfly to pace the Maverick women in swimming & diving duals against Pac-12 conference foe Utah here in the Ute Natatorium on Friday afternoon.
 
The NCAA Division I Ute men won the dual 201-97 while their women defeated the Division II Mavs, 219-81.  The 16-event format dual was the first of the new calendar year for both teams and featured a majority of unusual events.
 
Scoggin swept the two backstroke events taking the 50-yard discipline in 23.11 seconds before taking the 150 in 1:19.16, an event that Sampson took third in with a time of 1:20.20.
 
Sampson had won the 100 IM minutes earlier in 51.44 seconds and then came back to take the 300-yard IM in 2:56.17.
 
The maverick men also had three other second place finishes as freshman Xander Zappas finished the 50 butterfly in 23.26 seconds while Isaiah Cheeks had a pair of runner-up finishes on the diving boards, scoring 276.00 points on the 1-meter and 314.55 on the 3-meter.
 
Teammate Jax Juarros also set a NCAA pre-championship qualifying mark of 309.83 points on the 3-meter board to place third while Ty Mitton finished third on the 1-meter with 262.20 points, just ahead of Juarros' fourth place score of 261.90 points.
 
Scoggin, Marcos Otero, Dejan Urbanek and Aziz Ghaffari also posted the first of six other third place swimming finishes for the CMU men, finishing the 800 medley relay in 7:33.24 while Max Ayres finished third in the 50 breast with a time of 26.57 seconds.
 
Jameson McEnaney also finished third in the 50 free at 21.42 seconds while Aron Jonsson did the same in the 150 breast, touching in 1:32.73.  Austin Patterson also had a third place time of 23.41 seconds in the 50 fly before McEnaney, Sampson, Jackson Moe and Patterson completed the 500 yard crescendo relay in 4:04.20.
 
The Maverick women started the dual with a second place finish in the 800 medley relay as Sophia Bains, Maddi Moran, Kiara Borchardt and Ada Qunell combined for a time of 8:36.24.
 
Kate Leary, competing against her former team, then later took second in the 50 back with a time of 26.84 seconds while Moran, a native of Salt Lake City, did the same in the 50 breast with a time of 30.63 seconds. 
 
Nagy then won the 150 fly in 1:32.52 while freshman teammate Amber Siverts was right behind in 1:33.08.
 
Borchardt also had a second place finish in the 50 fly, touching the wall in 26.41 seconds while Nagy (3:20.35) and Bains (3:21.28) went 2-3 in the 300 IM. 
 
Jenna Hurley led the CMU women's diving contingent, taking third on both boards with scores of 234.38 (1m) and 237.83 (3m) points.

Katerina Matoskova also had a pair of third place finishes for the Mavs, finishing the 150 free in 1:24.50 and the 150 back in 1:33.43. 
 
Nagy also finished third in the 100 IM at 1:00.58 while Moran finished third in the 150 breast with a time of 1:46.62.
 
Qunell, Lauren White, Elli Williams and Izzy Powers then capped the meet, placing third in 500 crescendo relay with a time of 4:36.37.
 
The Mavs will return to Utah in two weeks to compete against host BYU and Air Force in Provo on Jan. 19 and 20.