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TEAM SCORES
Women
Purdue 252, Missouri State 48
Purdue 178, Iowa 122
Iowa 237, Missouri State 62
Men
Purdue 194, Missouri State 100
Iowa 151, Purdue 149
Iowa 176, Missouri State 118
IOWA CITY, Iowa ââ'¬" Both Purdue swimming & diving teams had two student-athletes win at least a pair of events to lead the way in triple-dual action with Iowa and Missouri State on Friday.
The Purdue women won 10 of the 16 events, improving to 5-1 in duals this season with the head-to-head wins against the Hawkeyes (178-122) and MSU (252-48). The Purdue men were victorious in six events. They're 2-2 in duals this year after the triple-dual split, topping Missouri State 194-100 but losing to Iowa 151-149. The Hawkeyes finished first and third in the final event, the 400 freestyle relay, to rally past the Boilermakers.
Kaersten Meitz was a three-time winner, posting a pair of NCAA provisional-qualifying times with an impressive sweep of the 200, 500 and 1,000 freestyle races. She also swam the leadoff leg on the victorious 400 free relay to close out the meet. She established new Purdue season-best times in the 100, 200 and 500 free Friday and has now won a team-high eight individual events this season.
Marat Amaltdinov, Meagan Lim and Steele Johnson were two-time winners in individual events for the Boilermakers. Amaltdinov swept the breaststroke events with a pair of season-best times for the second Friday in a row, improving on his NCAA provisional-qualifying times. Johnson swept the springboard diving events to improve to 7-for-8 in event victories this season. Lim swept the butterfly events and helped the Purdue women open the meet with a victory in the 200 medley relay.
Maddie Barta (200 back), Emily Meaney (1-meter diving) and Jackie Smailis (100 back) also won an individual event for the Purdue women. Smailis was the Boilermakers' top finisher in three individual events after taking second in the 50 freestyle and third in the 100 free. She anchored the 400 free relay team to victory as well.
Filip Bujoczek (200 free) and Nick McDowell (1,000 free) rounded out the list of individual event winners for the Purdue men. Both posted a new Purdue season-best time in their victorious performance. McDowell was out touched by 13 hundredths of a second in the 500 free by Iowa's Michael Tenney. It marked the first time this season McDowell did not win an individual event in which he competed; he was a perfect 7-for-7 entering 500 free Friday.
Jinq En Phee posted an NCAA provisional-qualifying time and Purdue season-best mark while finishing as the runner-up in the 100 breast.
Alex Clarke (200 IM), Austin Flager (100 fly), Kiki Komlenic (100 back), Grant Lewis (200 fly), Emily Meaney (1-meter diving), Adam Noens (200 back), Eddy Zawatski (50 free), Lim (100 fly) and Smailis (50 free, 100 back) all joined Amaltdinov, Bujoczek, McDowell, Meitz and Phee as Boilermakers to post a new team season-best time/score in at least one event Friday. Danielle Auckley swam on both relay winners.
The Purdue women posted one-two finishes in both backstroke events, 1-meter diving and the 1,000 free. They had at least three of the top finishers in nine events.
The Purdue men were at their best in the 100 back and the diving events. Johnson led a 1-2-3 finish in 3-meter diving. And despite not winning the event, the Boilermakers had four of the top five finishers in the 100 back.
Friday's meet was Purdue's final duals of the fall semester. Emmy Rawson, Amaltdinov, Meitz and Noens will compete for the Big Ten team next weekend (Nov. 12-13) at the inaugural USA College Challenge in Indianapolis. The Boilermakers close out their fall-semester schedules the following weekend when the swimmers compete at Virginia Tech's H2Okie Fall Invitational and the divers takes to the boards at IUPUI's House of Championships Invitational.