SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Drury men's and women's swimming and diving dominated day two of the Drury Invitational, recording wins in 16 of the 20 combined individual races, three of four relay events and all four diving competitions to pull away for convincing team titles Saturday afternoon at Breech Pool.

The Drury women, ranked No. 6 in the October edition of the CSCAA Division II Top 25 dual meet poll, dominated the morning session to expand an already comfortable lead, getting wins from Maria Fe Munoz (100 fly), Alyssa Freimanis (400 IM), Belen Morales (200 free), Gwen Bergum (100 breast) and Ashlyn Moore (100 back) to open the day. Munoz, Morales and Bergum each added individual titles in the afternoon session as well to help Drury (1,184.5) nearly double up second-place Rockhurst (649) in the team standings. 

Bergum turned in a season best in the 200 breast, with her time of 2:14.91 ranking as the second-best mark at the NCAA Division II level this season. She was one of three Panthers to claim multiple individual titles on the women's side. Munoz also captured the 200 fly (1:59.94), while Morales followed her win in the 200 free with a gold in the 100 free (50.39) in the afternoon session.

On the men's side of the ledger, the top-ranked Panthers used victorious performances by Ivan Adamchuk (100 fly), Matteo Vissotto (200 free) and Alvaro Zornoza (100 back) to gain a stronger hold on the top spot in the team rankings in the morning, then claimed all but one of the afternoon races to seal the team title with 1,035.5 points, outpacing second-place Missouri S&T (601).

Zornoza added a win in the 200 back (1:44.66), while Yuri Cabral (100 free) and Colby Hughes (200 fly) picked up victories in the afternoon to help the Panthers pull away for the team crown, after holding a narrow 13-point lead entering the day.

Women's Highlights

• The Panthers finished 1-2 in three separate morning events, starting with Munoz's 54.90 in the 100 fly; Yevheniia Zhukova finished second (55.75) and Rianne Rose (57.72) recorded her second top-five finish of the weekend, placing fourth.
• Drury also claimed the top two podium spots in the 400 IM, with Freimanis (4:34.75) leading the way, followed by Elvira Lonnberg Flores (4:40.13) in second.
• DU swept the top three places in the 200 free, as Morales took gold with a swim of 1:50.83; Whitney Stortz (1:54.43) followed in second and Sophia Kelly (1:55.45) claimed third.
• Bergum's 1:02.81 mark paced the 100 breast field, as Ella Gunnarsson (1:05.46) claimed bronze and Ashley Leader (1:06.91) finished fourth for the Panthers.
• Moore's (58.64) win in the 100 back rounded out the individual morning competition, with Sophia Deane (59.16) delivering a third-place finish for DU in the same event.
• Drury also claimed the top two finishes in the 200 medley relay, as the Panthers' team of Deane, Leader, Munoz and Petra Baumane posted the top time (1:45.87); the quartet of Lonnberg Flores, Bergum, Rose and Moore placed second with a time of 1:46.34.
• Lonnberg Flores kicked off the afternoon run for DU with a win in the 200 back, posting a time of 2:07.41, followed by Morales's victory in the 100 free, a race that saw the Panthers own the top eight places in the final standings.
• In addition to Bergum's near personal-best time in the 200 breast, Gunnarsson (2:19.63) added a second-place finish and Freimanis continued her standout weekend with a fourth-place mark of 2:27.10.
• Munoz (1:59.94) edged Rose for the top spot in the 200 fly for her second win of the day.
• The Panthers also won the 400 free relay, as Morales, Kelly, Juliana Harden and Munoz teamed up to post a time of 3:27.34.
• In the diving competition, Piera Rufino captured gold in both the 1-meter and 3-meter; she scored 426.68 to notch the win in the 1-meter, and 432.60 in the 3-meter.
• Anamarie Lewis (409.13) took second in the 1-meter, while Claire Garrelts (392.85) grabbed silver in the 3-meter.

Men's Highlights

• After failing to record a win on Friday's opening session of competition, the Panthers came through early and often Saturday, starting with Adamchuck's (48.39) victory in the 100 fly as pat of a contingent of three DU swimmers placing in the top five; Cabral (49.17) finished second and Branden Lowe (50.31) placed fifth.
• Jaime Gomez-Guillamon logged DU's top finish in the 400 IM, placing fourth wth a swim of 4:04.13, while Elliot Weber registered a sixth-place mark of 57.02 in the 100 breast for the only two races a Panther failed to win in the morning session.
• DU swept the podium in the 200 free, as Vissotto (1:37.34) delivered a win, followed by Lucas Mineur (1:38.42) and Josue Hernandez-Tellez (1:38.71) in second and third place, respectively.
• In the 100 back, Zornoza kept the Drury momentum moving in the right direction, clocking a swim of 48.23 to win the race, followed by Max Hagl (50.72) in the No. 2 position.
• Drury also dominated the 200 medley relay, with Zornoza, Weber, Lowe and Mineur combining on a 1:30.05 mark to take gold, with Adamchuk, Mathis Ducci, Cabral and Vissotto finishing right on their heels for a second-place finish (1:30.58).
• For the second day in a row, Matheus Siniscalchi turned in a key performance, this time kicking off the afternoon session with a win in the 1000 free, leading a Panthers sweep of the podium finishes; Hughes (9:26.04) placed second, just ahead of Leon Heberlein (9:30.12).
• The wins kept coming for DU, with Zornoza claiming gold in the 200 back, followed closely in second by Adamchuk with a time of 1:44.98 that ranks second nationally behind only Zornoza; Austin Metzler (1:51.26) completed the DU trio with a third-place finish.
• Cabral's (44.33) win in the 100 free followed a similar pattern, with Mineur (44.65) notching a second-place finish and Vissotto (44.67) finishing right behind him for another sweep of the top three places.
• Hughes (1:51.01) earned the win in the 200 fly, with Jake Prevatte (1:54.18) picking up a bronze in the same race.
• Drury won the 400 free relay as well, with Cabral, Mike Jasinski, Lucas Krueger and Vissotto earning the victory (3:02.49).
• Carter Austin delivered wins in both the 1-meter and 3-meter diving competitions, scoring 484.13 in the 1-meter and 473.03 in the 3-meter.

UP NEXT
Drury swimming and diving will return to Dallas to compete in the SMU Invitational, Nov. 20-22.

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