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CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. - The University of Indianapolis men's squad overtook the lead, while the Drury University women's team extended its advantage after the second of four days of the 2019 GLVC Swimming and Diving Championships on Thursday at the Crawfordsville Aquatic Center in Crawfordsville, Indiana, Feb. 7.
The Greyhounds went from being down 10.5 points yesterday to taking a slim 16.5-point lead following the second day of competition, while the Panthers moved from a 37-point lead after Day 1 to an enormous 146-point advantage at the end of Day 2.
UIndy (375) scored 225.5 points today, sneaking past Missouri S&T (358.5) - now in second place after scoring 198.5 points today. With a number of key results this evening, McKendree University (312) moved ahead of Drury University (306) by just six points after the two teams scored 201 and 177 points, respectively. University of Missouri-St. Louis (144.5) and Lewis University (123) swapped fifth and sixth place, while Truman State University (109), Bellarmine University (98), William Jewell College (69), and Maryville University (60) held steady at Nos. 7-10.
Drury's two-day total is 539 points on the women's side after scoring 307 today, while Indianapolis (393) is well ahead of McKendree (196), which moved from fifth to third after a big second-day performance of 142 points. Bellarmine (193) is just three points back in fourth, and Truman State is also a mere three points behind the Knights with 191 for fifth. Lewis (122), Missouri-St. Louis (109), William Jewell (98), and Maryville (85) round out the nine-team standings.
There were 12 GLVC champions crowned Thursday, with seven of those winners setting new league standards.
The medal ceremonies began with an afternoon of diving where Indianapolis sophomore Payton Staman set the first GLVC record of the day with 515.20 points on the men's 1-Meter board. In fact, the junior led a Greyhounds' sweep on the medal podium, as reigning GLVC Diver of the Year Josh Zylstra nabbed silver (486.30) and freshman Ben Rader (478.55) earned bronze. On the women's, sophomore Cassie Kury looked poised to defend her Diver of the Year accolade, taking first in the 3-Meter board with 457.10 points. Placing second was Maryville junior Mariah Hagerty (393.20), and finishing third was McKendree sophomore Caitlyn Canadi (333.40).
The evening swimming finals started with the women's 200 Freestyle Relay in which Drury clocked a time of 1:32.83 - a NCAA Division II 'B'-cut Qualifying Standard - for the gold, while the McKendree men followed with a GLVC and Pool record time of 1:19.33 in the same event for its own B-cut mark.
In the 400 Individual Medley, Panthers freshman Tori Sopp touched first at 4:15.59, breaking her own GLVC record set in the morning preliminaries, before S&T freshman Andy Huffman won another gold at 3:53.49 in the men's 400 IM. Sopp's clip met the D-II A-cut standard, while Huffman's was good for a B-cut.
Next came the women's 100 Butterfly that saw yet another Drury swimmer break a GLVC and Pool record, as junior Bailee Nunn impressed with an A-cut of 52.55 that bested her 2017 record as a freshman by more than a full second. Junior teammate Pavel Semochkin followed suit, breaking a record he'd set in last year's meet by 0.10-seconds for the new league and Pool standard of 47.25 in the men's 100 Fly.
Drury's Erica Dahlgren won the 200 Free for the third consecutive year, recording a 1:50.07 (B-cut) before McKendree sophomore Luca Simonetti hit a NCAA D-II B-cut Qualifying Standard with a time of 1:36.08 for the gold.
Wrapping things up for the night was the 400 Medley Relay where the Drury women recorded a gold-medal time of 3:39.44 before the Miners men broke last year's record by the Greyhounds (3:14.25) with a new mark of 3:13.43 (B-cut).
All first- and second-place finishers are awarded first- and second-team All-GLVC honors, respectively.
Day 3 of the GLVC Championships begins Friday with preliminaries of the 500 Freestyle, 100 Backstroke, 100 Breaststroke, and 200 Butterfly, beginning at 10 a.m. ET. Limited bonus coverage of the preliminaries will begin at 9:45 a.m. on the GLVC Sports Network, while full coverage begins at 12:45 p.m. for women's 1-meter and men's 3-meter diving, followed by swimming finals at 6 p.m.
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