SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Pawel Krawczyk's pair of top-five placements in the 200 and 500 freestyle highlighted the Missouri State men's swimming and diving team's day one Shamrock Invitational efforts Friday at Rolfs Aquatic Center. The MSU men totaled 309 points through two sessions.

Krawczyk's fourth-place time in the 500 free (4:23.06) was the highest individual finish for the Bears. In the evening session, he collected fifth in the 200 free (1:37.78), edging past Iowa's Andrew Fierke.

Arthur Cury rounded out MSU's A-heat finishers, turning in a seventh-best time in the 200 IM (1:49.61) and joining Krawczyk in the 200 free (1:38.72) with an eighth-place finish.  

Antonio Thomas (4:27.36) and Tyler Lewis (3:56.49) represented MSU in the B heats, clocking in the top time and finishing ninth overall in the 500 free and 400 IM, respectively.

The Bears saw three – Samuel Senn, Jacob Schultz, and Michael Hampel – rank among the top-10 in several events. Senn concluded the first session's individual races with a tenth-place time in the 50 free (20.85). Schultz (49.41) and Hampel (56.06) produced top MSU swims in the 100 fly and 100 breast, both claiming tenth.

MSU fell just shy of the top-10 pack on the 1-meter boards, with Michael Claunch placing eleventh (257.85) and John David Spence (248.60) taking twelfth.
The MSU men resume competition Saturday for the final session at 11:15 a.m.

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