COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.  The Western Colorado swimming and diving team closed out Day 2 of the Colorado College Classic on Saturday with a slim lead over the host Tigers, 570-552, at the top of the team leaderboard.

The Mountaineers picked up one first-place finish on the day from LynDea Turner, five second-place finishes, and used 18 championship-heat finishes in the swimming events to inch in front of the Tigers at Schlessman Natatorium.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• The morning preliminary heats saw 23 swims earn return trips to the evening's championship and consolation heat finals.
• Turner's victory came in the 400-yard individual medley after posting the top time in the morning prelims. She maintained her spot at the front of the field in the championship heat, touching first in a time of 4 minutes, 53.28 seconds.
• Joining Turner in that championship final were teammates Leah Wagner and Lauren Linneman. Wagner (5:02.89) was fourth and Linneman (5:08.58) was fifth as all three Mountaineers bettered their prelims times in the nighttime final.
• Turner later added a seventh place in the 200 freestyle (2:04.60) and Wagner added a third-place finish in the 100 breaststroke (1:09.75).
• Scoring the most points on the night for Western was Jordan Maruska who was second in the 200 free (2:00.07) and third in the 100 free (55.69). Just behind Maruska in both events was Makenna Lambert with a fourth in the 100 (56.41) and a third in the 200 (2:02.78).
• Courtney Coplan was another runner-up for Western, taking second in the 100 backstroke (1:00.93) after earlier in the night adding a 15th-place finish in the 100 free (57.38).
• The 200 butterfly included a second place from a Western swimmer. Anna Maurello (2:10.39) was second in the championship final by just 28/100ths of a second, while teammates Miranda Noonan (2:28.87) and Elisa Elsberry (2:32.78) added fourth and fifth places, respectively.
• Three other Mountaineers scored in the 100 back with Coplan, beginning with fifth-place finisher Afton Page in a time of 1:02.56. In sixth was Tayla Liddle (1:03.82), and winning the consolation heat for a ninth place finish was Bella Gamez (1:05.01). Liddle also added an eighth place in the 200 free (2:06.04).
• It was Addison O'Donnell just ahead of Wagner in the championship heat of the 100 breast, posting a second-place time of 1:09.68. And finishing fifth in the same heat was Trinity Caudle (1:11.64).
• Consolation heat scorers from Western included Taylor Grebe in the 100 free (16th, 57.15), Emma Smith in the 200 free (14th, 2:09.10) and Sidney-Ann Morris also in the 200 free (2:11.33).
• The initial points of the day came in between the swimming prelims and finals sessions as a trio of Mountaineer divers concluded the 1-meter diving final. Meredith Clabaugh was second with an 11-dive score of 331.20, with Alexandra Wallis finishing sixth (297.65) and Grebe taking 10th place (277.15).
• The final event of the evening session was the 400 free relay. O'Donnell, Turner, Lambert and Maruska teamed up for a second-place time of 3:44.32, and the quartet of Coplan, Page, Smith and Grebe finished fourth with a time of 3:51.79. Lambert's split of 54.76 was the fastest of all swimmers in the event, and Maruska's anchor-leg split of 55.24 was third fastest.

EXTRA POINTS

• Maruska's 48 points leads all swimmers at the Classic.
• Turner's 33 points are ninth most, followed immediately by Lambert's and Wagner's 31 points.

NEXT UP
The Mountaineers will look to hang on to their lead over the Tigers on the final day of the Classic. Sunday's prelims begin at 9 a.m. and the championship session starts at 4 p.m.