SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Missouri S&T's Ethan Goldfarb (Arlington, Texas/The Oakridge School) became the first Miner swimmer to make an NCAA Division II provisional qualifying mark Saturday, doing so in the 400-yard individual medley as the team completed its competition at the Drury Invitational.

Goldfarb finished third in the 400-IM with his provisional qualifying time of 4:03.92 and would add another third place showing later in the day in the 200-yard breaststroke with a mark of 2:04.54.

Colton Krause (Bartlesville, Okla./Bartlesville) also had a third place effort Saturday in the 200-yard butterfly in 1:53.61 and also ended up in fourth in the 100-yard butterfly in a time of 51l.83 seconds.

The Miners also got a pair of fourth place showing from its relay teams, as the 800-yard freestyle relay team of Jon Glaser (Wildwood, Mo./Lafayette), Aljaz Kerc (Ljubljana, Slovenia/Gimnazija Bezigrad), Keith Sponsler (Lincoln, Neb./Lincoln East) and Luke Norris (The Woodlands, Texas/The Woodlands) finished in 6:58.86 and the 400-free relay quartet of Sponsler, Kerc, Ryan Layne (Houston, Texas/Cypress Creek) and Glaser posted a time of 3:09.64.

Layne took fifth in the 400-IM in 4:09.86 and the 200-backstroke in 1:57.98, as did Drew Larkins (Chesterfield, Mo./Parkway Central) in the 100-yard breaststroke with his performance of 1:01.49, Glaser in the 1,000-freestyle in 9:51.14 and Kerc in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 47.39 seconds.

S&T started its competition Saturday with a sixth place showing in the 200-yard medley relay as the team of Luis Nesrala (Santo Domingo, D.R./Colegio Amador), Goldfarb, Colton Krause (Bartlesville, Okla./Bartlesville) and Kerc recorded a time of 1:36.03.

The Miners' next competition will take place after the university's final examinations are completed, as they will take part in the Delta State Invitational beginning Dec. 14 in Cleveland, Miss.

Complete results from Drury Invitational