ROLLA, Mo. – For the first of just two times in the 2016-17 season, Missouri S&T's swimming team will compete at home when it hosts Delta State Friday in a 6 p.m. meet at the S&T Pool in the Bullman Multi-Purpose Building.
The Miners – who will also host a two-day invitational on the weekend prior to Thanksgiving – will be competing Friday for the second time this season and in the first of two weekend meets, as they will take part in a meet Saturday hosted by Lindenwood in St. Peters, Mo.
Delta State will also be a part of Saturday's meet along with Truman State and Indianapolis. Saturday's meet features five teams ranked among the top 11 by CollegeSwimming.com, as Lindenwood is ranked fifth, Indianapolis sixth, the Miners ninth, Delta State 10
th and Truman State 11
th.
S&T's previous competition took place two weekends ago at the Show-Me Showdown at the University of Missouri, where the Miners recorded eight top-10 finishes in the meet.
Jon Glaser (Wildwood, MO/Lafayette) had two of the top-10 showings, including a third-place finish in the 100-yard freestyle and a seventh in the 200-free.
Kevin McPherson (Oakdale, MN/Tartan) had a fifth place finish in the 200-freestyle and newcomer
Tim Samuelsen (Stavanger, Norway/St. Svithun VGS) finished eighth in the 500-yard freestyle at Mizzou, while the other individual finish in the top 10 came from
Ethan Shih (Papillion, NE/Papillion-LaVista) in the 100-yard butterfly.
Delta State has three meets under its belt thus far, including a first place finish in a three-team invitational last weekend with Henderson State and Incarnate Word in Little Rock, Ark. The Statesmen won 11 of the 14 events in last week's meet, with Nathan Sawicki winning both distance freestyle races, Matteo Fraschi capturing a pair of breaststroke races and Mattia Schirru winning the 50- and 100-yard freestyle.
The Statesmen, who finished fifth at last year's NCAA Division II Championships, beat the Miners 114-91 in a dual meet at S&T last October with the winning performance in eight of the 11 events.
