Saturday RecapCasey Jepsen took home first place in the Women's 200 Free, Levi Hanks broke the school record in the Men's 200 Free, and the Bulldog swim teams captured seven B-cut times on night three of the 2013 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Championship/Invitational.
The Bulldog women sit second in the overall team standings, while the Bulldog men are third overall entering the final day of competition.
In the morning prelim session, Hanks hit the wall in 1:41.04, finishing second in the men's 200 Free prelim and snapping a four-year school record in the process.
Then, in the evening final, he bested that time by another .80, finishing second once again at 1:40.24 and improving both the new school-best as well as his B-cut time.
Jepsen, meanwhile, recorded big wins both in the prelims and finals of the 200 Free, eventually capturing first place and a new B-cut with a 1:51.68 time in the finals.
She held off teammate Kristi Van Oost, who finished third with a B-cut time of 1:55.17.
Other big individual performances for the 'Dogs on day three came in the Women's 100 Breast, where Margaux Kent (1:05.04) and Abby Hempen (1:05.48) finished second and fourth respectively to pick up 54 team points and a pair of B-cuts.
In the Women's 400 IM, Taylor Birsa, Ashley Shanel and Allison Harding took home third, fourth and fifth places, while Jerod Simek picked up a second place B-cut time of 4:05.59.
Adrian Rudd added a B-cut mark of 57.11 by finishing second in the Women's 100 Fly Finals, with Tony Hernandez and Etienne Thro finishing 2-3 in the Men's 100 Fly.
Lars Winklemolen finished second in the 100 Breast after leading the field through the preliminary round.
The Bulldogs also earned third and fourth place finishes in the men's and women's 200 Medley Relay.
Sunday marks the final day of the NSIC Championship/Invite, with prelims starting at 10:00 am and the finals at 6:00 pm. Full team results are available via the links above in PDF form.
Friday Recap
A 1-2 finish in the Women's 200 IM and a second school record falling highlighted night two of the NSIC Championship/Invitational on Friday evening.
Abby Hempen and Adrian Rudd were part of two B-cut times on the day, as Hempen set a season-best time of 2:07.95 in the morning prelims of the 200 IM, then held off Rudd in the finals with a time of 2:08.17 to pick up
an individual title.
Rudd, meanwhile, notched a B-cut time of 2:08.54 in the finals and joined Hempen, Beth Eyanson and Casey Jepsen in the 400 Medley Relay finals with a B-cut mark of 3:52.66. That quartet finished second, picking up 56 team points.
Also on the women's side, Brynn Guardado (5:03.27) and Allison Harding (5:05.44) logged B-cut times in the 500 Free finals, as they were two of six Bulldogs to score in the event.
Ashley Shanel (5:11.68) and Meghan Senne (5:10.95) also logged top-10 finishes.
Jepsen locked up a B-cut time of her own in the 50 Free, touching the wall in fourth place with a time of 21.12.
Meanwhile, after breaking his own school record in the 1000 Free on Thursday night, Jerod Simek did the same in the 500 Free on Friday, topping his previous-best of 4:32.05 with a time of 4:31.29.
In addition, Levi Hanks secured a B-cut time in the event, also beating Simek's previous-best with a 4:31.99 mark.
Tony Hernandez also used his finals appearance in the 50 Free to sneak past the B-cut line, beating the cutoff by .02 with a time of 21.12 to finish fourth on the night.
Full standings are listed above, with Saturday's preliminary action set to begin at 10:00 am.
Five combined B-Cut times in four events highlighted night one of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Championship/Invitational for the Truman men’s and women’s swimming teams on Thursday evening.
In the opening event of the night, freshman Brynn Guardado stamped a B-cut time in the 1000 Free, capturing first-place by more than seven seconds with a time of 10:18.89.
Allison Harding also notched a B-cut time in the race, touching the wall in fifth at 10:29.78.
Then, in the men’s version of the 1000 Free, Jerod Simek added his own B-cut time with a mark of 9:18.10, good for second-place in the event.
In the process, he broke his own school record in the event, previously set in last season's NCAA Div. II championships - a time of 9:19.75.
Finally, in the 800 Free Relay competitions to close the abbreviated night, the Bulldog women took home first place in both the A (7:40.41; B-cut) and B (7:51.57) finals, while the men logged a fourth-place, B-cut time of 6:51.59.
Although the Bulldogs matched or out-performed each of the other schools in the swim portions, the women sit fifth with 172 points and the men third with 85 points due to results from the 3-meter diving competition.
Truman does not compete in diving, and, taking out the 3-meter results, the Bulldog women would be tied for first in the swim-only standings.
Courtesy: Truman State University
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