Swimming Completes Day Two

12/5/2009 12:00:00 AM | Women's Swimming and Diving

Dec. 5, 2009

COLUMBIA, Mo. - Mizzou finished day two of competition still in the lead over Arizona State in the Mizzou Tiger Invite. The Tigers and Sun Devils have a commanding lead over the field as the Tigers sit in first with 785.5 points while ASU has 602 points and Nebraska in third with 378 points.

"I thought we came out with really good energy this morning and was happy that it transferred to the night events," head coach Brian Hoffer said. "It's always good to see your team stepping up the way they did tonight."

After setting a "B" qualifying mark the day before, the 800 free relay group set another one when Kim Jasmer, Colleen Gordon, Stephanie Rovig and Frances Szostak finished first in 7:20.41, which was also a meet record.

In the 200 medley relay, the group of Cassie Cunningham, Rachel Ripley, Gordon and Szostak finished first in 1:42.69, .07 seconds ahead of teammates Lauren Lavigna, Morgan McCleery, Jasmer and Lisa Nathanson who finished in second place.

Dominique Bouchard finished first in the 100 back, setting a meet record in 54.76 seconds and was just .02 seconds from breaking a school record. Lavigna finished third in 55.29 seconds and Cunningham who finished fifth in 55.87 seconds.

Jasmer took the 200 free title in 1:47.69 for her first individual win of the day, while Szostak took third in 1:50.88.

Ripley finished second in the 100 breast in 1:03.01, with McCleery finishing fourth in 1:03.79.

Gordon and Molly Bollen finished second and third in the 100 fly, finishing in 55.60 and 55.62 seconds respectively. Cunningham rounded out the scoring for Missouri by finishing in seventh place in 57.09 seconds.

The group will finish the meet tomorrow at 10 a.m.