ROLLA, Mo. – Missouri S&T's swimming team opened its home schedule on a winning note Saturday morning, winning six of the 11 events to take a 120-85 decision over Ouachita Baptist at the S&T pool.

 

Not only did the Miners have six firsts in the meet against a team that placed fifth at last year's NCAA Division II Championships – S&T finished two spots ahead of OBU in third – they also had nine second place showings to boost their efforts Saturday.

 

Andrew Trowbridge (Arlington, Texas/Arlington) won two events to head the S&T individual performances, winning both of the distance freestyle races with times of 9:43.34 in the 1,000-yard race and 4:43.85 in the 500-free. The Miners also got winning efforts from Andrew Schranck (Alton, Ill./Marquette Catholic) in the 200-individual medley in 1:53.80, Phil Arve (Raleigh, N.C./Athens Drive) in the 200-butterfly in 1:53.70 and Zlatan Hamzic (Panceva, Serbia/Uros Predic) in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:07.86.

 

S&T also got a win from its 400-yard medley relay team of Jeff Enge (Edmond, Okla./Edmond Memorial), Hamzic, Schranck and David Sanchez-Turner (Madrid, Spain/Academic Torvell) with a time of 3:28.18.

 

The Miners had second place showings from Danny Murphy (Houston, Texas/Cypress Creek) in the 1,000-freestyle in 9:53.50 and the 500-free in 4:46.73, Arve in the 200-freestyle in 1:46.46, Sean Deegan (Kansas City, Mo./Park Hill) in the 50-yard freestyle in 21.80 seconds, Enge in the 200-backstroke in 1:54.04 and Zach Lemons (Flagstaff, Ariz./Flagstaff) in the 200-breaststroke in 2:09.51.

 

S&T also had a tie for second between Schranck and Agi VanWetering (Omaha, Neb./Millard West) in the 100-yard freestyle as both posted times of 47.93 seconds.

 

The Miners' 400-yard freestyle relay team of Deegan, Arve, Sanchez-Turner and Hamilton Vernon (Omaha, Neb./Burke) took second as well Saturday with a time of 3:12.12.

 

Vernon placed third in the 200-freestyle in 1:46.92, as did VanWetering in the 50-freestyle in 22.06 seconds, Enge in the 200-IM in 1:58.37, Lemons in the 200-butterfly in 1:58.01, Sanchez-Turner in the 500-freestyle in 5:01.64 and Matt Welsh (Wildwood, Mo./Lafayette) in the 200-yard backstroke with a mark of 1:58.18.

 

The Miners swept the top three spots in the 500-freestyle.

 

S&T will return to action next Saturday when it travels to Springfield to face defending NCAA Division II champion Drury in a 1 p.m. dual meet.