FORT COLLINS, Colo.— Agata Naskret set a pool record in the 100-yard backstroke as she and
Ada Qunell won individual events while book-ending the Mavs' winning 200 Free Relay team, highlights of Colorado Mesa University's Saturday afternoon women's swimming dual against NCAA Division I Colorado State University here in the Rams' Moby Pool.
The Rams won the dual, 177-123, taking wins in 12 of the 16 overall events, including 11 swimming events on Saturday.
CMU claimed four wins,
including a Friday afternoon 1-meter diving win from Jenna Hurley, which helped the Mavs take a 23-15 lead into Saturday's swimming events. The Mavs also had seven NCAA Championship qualifying and the same number of second place times on Saturday.
Naskret led the Mavs with two wins, including the meet-capping relay. She also had two second place finishes, but touched first in the 100 Back with a NCAA Division II Championship automatic qualifying time of 53.46 seconds (53.36-altitude adjusted), out-touching CSU's Tess Whineray, who had been the Rams' top performer this season, by a tenth of a second. Whineray also went under the former pool record.
Naskret now leads Division II by nearly a full second after winning the event at last year's national championships. The Polish junior also had a season-best and NCAA "B" cut time of 2:00.44 (1:59.24-converted) in the 200 Back, good for second place behind Whineray, who set a pool record time of 1:58.32 to claim the win. CMU's
Katerina Matoskova took third in the event, touching in 2:03.71 (2:02.51-converted), good for yet another NCAA provisional qualifying mark.
Meanwhile, Qunell took the 100 Free in an NCAA Championship provisional qualifying time of 51.14 seconds before anchoring the 200 Free Relay team to a winning time of 1:34.03.
Elli Williams and
Kiara Borchardt swam the middle legs on that relay.
Naskret and Qunell also book-ended the Mavs' second place 200 Medley Relay team that finished in 1:43.58.
Maddi Moran and Borchardt were also part of that team.
The Mavs also fared well in the 800 Free, the first individual event of the dual and one that is not normally contested at the collegiate level.
Olivia Hansson led a 2-3-4 CMU finish in 8:14.14 while
Sophia Bains (8:28.26) and
Haven Hinkle (8:31.18) were the next to touch.
Freshman
Kendyll Wilkinson, Matoskova and Qunell then all turned in NCAA "B" cut efforts in the 200 Free as Wilkinson took second in 1:52.20 (1:51.00-converted) while Matoskova was right behind in 1:52.62 (1:51.42-converted) to join Wilkinson in the top 10 of the national rankings. Qunell is just outside that top 10 after finishing in 1:53.08 (1:51.88-converted), good for fourth place in a fast race.
Hansson also had a second place finish in the 400 Free, finishing in 3:55.26, just 0.07 seconds behind CSU's Erin Dawson. Borchardt also took second in the 100 Fly with a time of 56.91 seconds before
Tori Bartusiak finished the 100 IM in 58.89 seconds to garner second place in that discipline.
Bartusiak also had a third place finish in the 200 Fly with a personal-best time of 2:06.53 (2:05.43-converted) to move into the No. 10 spot of program history.
Williams (23.97) and
Antonia Leese (2:23.75) also garnered third place finishes in the 50 Free and 200 Breaststroke, respectively.
CMU's men also competed on Saturday, dropping a tight 157-143 dual at Division I Denver.
The Maverick squads will rejoin forces and resume their season in just under three weeks when they will host their annual TYR/CMU Invitational from Nov. 20-23.
