Meet Results

DECORAH, Iowa — The Saint Mary's University swimming and diving teams closed out the 2010 portion of their schedule Friday evening, and while the Cardinals' weren't able to give coach Eric Lindquist the early Christmas present of dual-meet wins over Luther, they certainly stuffed his stocking with plenty of stellar individual performances.

“Individually, it was a good way for the first part of our season,” said Lindquist, whose men's team fell to the Norse 79-36, while Luther handed the SMU women a 143-63 setback. “We had some very solid efforts — certainly some solid momentum to build off of when we get back from break.”

Mark Ross (Dubuque, Iowa) led the way for the Cardinal men, placing first in the 500 freestyle (5:20.90), while also finishing second in the 200 IM, stopping the clock in 2:09.92. Greg Mollner (St. Paul, Minn.) had an interesting double for the Cardinal men, placing second in both the one-meter diving (136.15) and the 100 butterfly (1:11.78). Brandon Matis (Blaine, Minn.) chipped in a third-place effort in the 100 freestyle, where he touched the wall in 54.37.

On the women's side, Nikki Farmer (Medford, Wis.), Lz Flynn (Mahtomedi, Minn.) and Anna Smaron (Maple Plain, Minn.) led the Cardinals' charge with second-place performances. Farmer placed second in the 1,000 freestyle (12:15.08), with Flynn adding her second in the one-meter diving (211.55) and Smaron's coming in the 100 freestyle (1:02.13).

Smaron also recorded a third in the 100 breaststroke (1:17.05) and Lisa Lucas (Gunnison, Colo.) chipped in third-place times of 2:09.34 in the 200 freestyle and 5:54.19 in the 500 freestyle.

The Cardinals are now off until Jan. 15, when they host Hamline and St. Thomas in a double-dual at the Jul Gernes Pool beginning at 1 p.m.