Full Results

COLORADO SPRINGS - A win by the men's 200-free relay highlighted Friday night's tri-meet as Colorado School of Mines got back to second semester action at Air Force with Colorado Mesa also in the pool. 

The men capped the meet with a win as the 200-free relay squad of Michael Kietzman, Braden Hunt, Harry Smith, and Garrett Waite won a thriller by sixth-hundreths over Colorado Mesa in 1:25.23. The men also had had a number of second-place finishes to highlight their night, including Henry Oberley in the 1000-free in 10:21.39, a spot ahead of Ronan Lauinger in 10:26.55, while Braden Whitmarsh was also second in the 200-free in 1:44.54. Charles Burroughs swam 50.81 for second in the 100-fly, and Harry Smith hit second in the 100-free in 46.51. 

Lauinger later finished third in both the 400-IM (4:22.07) and 500-free (4:57.39), and Whitmarsh was fourth in the 100-back (52.23).

Among the women's top individual finishes, Meghan Slowey took third in the 1000-free in 11:12.70 and seventh in the 500 (5:32.40), Sophia Buhr finished the 400-IM in a fourth-place 4:54.12, and was also fourth in the 100-fly at 1:00.66, and Maddie Finley was fifth in the 50-free in 25.32. 

Air Force won all sides of the tri-meet with a 146-82 score over #16 Mines on the men's side and 194-36 against #24 Mines for the women; #4 CMU also won head-to-head with the Orediggers 149-87 and 185-51, while the Air Force men defeated CMU 136-104 and the women tied 121-121. 

NEXT UP
The Mines and Air Force men will swim in Golden Saturday morning at 11 a.m. The women are back in action along with the men next Friday at Wyoming.