COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – For a second straight day, the College of Saint Benedict swim and dive team dominated with nine events wins to move to 2-0 in dual competition with a 152-70 victory over Minnesota Morris at the Warner Palaestra Pool on Saturday (Oct. 19).

Across two days, CSB has won consecutive duals and totaled 17 event wins, including 15 individual titles. Next for St. Benedict will be another dual competition as the Bennies travel to Macalester on Oct. 26.

"Overall, we had a great meet for all of our athletes for a second day," said CSB head swim and dive coach Mandy Wolvert.

Sophomore Mary Morris again shined in the pool by recording two individual wins and also swam on a winning relay at the dual, which officially opened their home swim and dive schedule. Morris now has five individual/relay titles across two competitions.

Morris led off CSB's victorious 200 medley relay, which clocked 1:54.64 and included Megan Bartels, Rachel Schlueter and Liz Hansen. CSB also had a third-place finish in the relay with a team of Maddie Stutelberg, Em Oswald, Anna Boomgaarden, and Abby Stevens.

In addition to the relay, Morris cruised to a 10-second win in the 200 IM as she clocked 2:19.30 to finished ahead of three other teammates which finished second through fourth. Junior Mikayla Haskamp was second in 2:29.75 followed by Schlueter in third at 2:30.65 with Lauren Sitzman, fourth in 2:31.11. Morris and Hansen finished 1-2 in the 200-yard free style with Morris clocking a winning time of 2:02.96 and Hansen finishing second in 2:10.32.

For the second straight day, Hansen won the 50-free style as she clocked a 25.91. First-year Grace Morphew was third in 26.86.

Schlueter captured her first individual title of the season with a 56.36 clocking in the 100-freestyle as CSB finished with five of the top-six placers in the race. Haskamp was third in 58.56 with Bartels, fourth, in 59.14, a personal-best by one-second.

After winning the 100-breaststroke on Friday, Bartels captured her second individual title with a 2:40.07 clocking for the victory in the 200-breaststroke. CSB claimed the top three spots in the event with sophomore Claire Canfield clocking 2:46.06 for second and Jayda Alholm, third, in 2:47.04, a personal-best for her by five seconds.

Canfield also won her second individual event title by cruising to a nine-record win in the 200-butterfly with a clocking of 2:26.15. CSB's Anna Boomgaarden was third in 2:39.01 in the 200-butterfly.

Sitzman also had her first event win of the season by winning the 200 backstroke by nearly six seconds in 2:19.41. CSB placed three of the top four in the event including Stutelberg, third in 2:28.96 while sophomore Emma Neely was fourth in 2:39.16.

For the second straight day, sophomore Ella Kowalczyk won the 3-meter diving competition with a score of 188.80. She was also third in the one-meter board with a score of 170.05. Junior Sabrina Buffetta was second on both boards with a score of 186.50 on the three-meter board and on the one-meter board had a total of 174.10. 

St. Ben's also captured four of the top six spots of the 1,000 freestyle as first-year Alivia Kortuem was second in 12:23.72 with first-year Natalie Pfau, fourth in 12:32.14 and first-year Ava Niksich, fifth, 12:34.29.

In the 200-freestyle relay, CSB was second in 1:46.67 with a team of Haskamp, Niksich, Canfield and Morphew.