The St. Ambrose men won the two-day Luther Invitational while the women placed third. The event featured preliminary rounds and A and B finals.

The Bee men scored 1373 total points to easily outdistance second-place Luther (584 points). UW-La Crosse, Midland and Coe also competed on the men's side. SAU won 11 individual events and all five relays.

Cory Werrett won both freestyle sprints, taking the 50 free in 21.10 seconds and the 100 in 46.04. Mikhi Hassim (second in 21.10), Brett Jones (third in 21.70), Nikolai Valencia (fifth) and Carter Gaber (sixth) also raced in the A final of the 50 free. Jones was also runner-up in the 100 free in 46.40 seconds. Benny Zarhin (46.77) was third, Jonas Friess fourth, Jonathan Rollwa sixth and Skylar Drolema eighth.

Friess won the 200-, 500- and 1650-yard freestyle races. His time of 1:42.04 in the 200 free was better than second-place Zarhin (1:43.90) and third-place Rollwa (1:45.13). Panagiotis Pappous was fourth and Juan Gomez fifth. Friess won the 500 free in 4:39.94. Rollwa took third in 4:50.16, Gomez was fourth and Truitt Landolt fifth. Friess (16:50.11) and Rollwa (17:06.31) were first and third in the 1650.

Hassim also won three events. He took the 100-yard backstroke in 52.02 seconds, the 100-yard butterfly in 49.27 seconds and the 200-yard individual medley in 1:51.75. Egoitz Munoz Moreno (52.70) was second in the 100 back. Gaber, Michael Taylor, Ryan Safta and Carter Prull finished fourth through seventh. Droleman finished third in the 100 fly in 52.24 seconds. Javier Santiago, Marat Usov, Gomez and Jones took fifth through eighth place. Usov was also second in the 200 IM in 1:54.60. Sebastian Pereira, Luke Sproule, Garret Sims, Ben Patterson and Santiago were fourth through eighth.

Usov won both the 200-yard butterfly in 1:53.97 and the 400-yard individual medley in 4:04.21. William Walker-Rozo (1:58.62) was third in the 200 fly. Santiago, Sproule, Carson Maxwell and Gomez all competed in the A final. Pereira (4:16.09) was second in the 400 IM. Sims was seventh and Walker-Rozo eighth.

The other Bee winner was Walter de Jongh, who claimed the 100-yard individual medley in 56.09 seconds. Nikolai Valencia was third in 56.45 seconds and Patterson placed fifth.

Five Bees scored points in the A final of the 100-yard breaststroke - Werrett, Thomas Noller, Tayden Blair, de Jongh and Patterson. Three raced in both the A final of the 200-yard backstroke (Sims, David Schneider and Taylor) and in the 200-yard breaststroke (Noller, de Jongh, Blair). Bram Mess finished fourth in both the 1-meter and 3-meter diving competitions. Lane Otte was fifth in the 1-meter.

Werrett, Zarhin, Jones and Gaber (1:24.26) won the 200-yard freestyle relay. Hassim, Werrett, Zarhin and Jones (3:06.10) took the 400-yard freestyle relay. Usov, Friess, Pappous and Gomez (7:01.98) won the 800-yard freestyle relay. Munoz Moreno, Noller, Hassim and Werrett (1:33.00) won the 200-yard medley relay. And Munoz Moreno, Werrett, Hassim and Zarhin (3:25.13) claimed the 400-yard medley relay.

The St. Ambrose women took third with 669 total points. Luther won with 752 points while Southwest Minnesota State took second. UW-La Crosse, Midland and Coe rounded out the six-team field.

SAU won four individual events with Bridget O'Grady winning half of those. She took the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:05.73 and the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:24.51. Molly Duehr was third in both events (1:09.80, 2:32.24) and Kate Henson was fourth in both.

Leyre Antonanzas won the 200-yard butterfly in 2:14.70, right ahead of Grace Bobeldyk, who was second in 2:17.67. Irene Artabe touched the wall first to win the 100-yard individual medley in 1:00.32. Duehr placed fifth.

Bryn Kiley was runner-up in the two long freestyle events. She had a time of 5:18.24 in the 500 free and 18:36.19 in the 1650 free. Bobeldyk (18:47.75) was third in the 1650 and fourth in the 500. Annaliese Bowser was eighth in the 1650. Kiley also placed third in the 200-yard freestyle in 2:00.54 with Bobeldyk finishing fourth. Artabe was second in the 100-yard butterfly in 59.99 seconds. Anna Gute placed eighth. Antonanzas finished second in the 200-yard individual medley in 2:10.67. O'Grady was fourth and Henson sixth.

Artabe added a third-place showing in the 100-yard backstroke in 59.66 seconds. Antonanzas was third in the 400-yard individual medley in 4:42.92 and was seventh in the 200-yard backstroke. Caitlin Pieroni was seventh in the 400 IM. Gute placed fourth in the 100-yard freestyle. Kiley was eighth. Gute and Artabe finished sixth-seventh in the 50-yard freestyle swim.

Three relays earned second-place finishes - Kiley, Bobeldyk, Antonanzas and Artabe (8:06.11) in the 800-yard freestyle relay; Artabe, O'Grady, Antonanzas and Gute (1:50.30) in the 200-yard medley relay; and Artabe, O'Grady, Antonanzas and Gute (4:00.60) in the 400-yard medley relay. Gute, Duehr, Schyon Drolema and O'Grady were fourth in the 200-yard freestyle relay. Gute, Bobeldyk, Kiley and Duehr were fifth in the 400-yard freestyle relay.

St. Ambrose will next host Midland in a dual at the Central Natatorium on Dec. 2.