FULL RESULTS
 
CLEVELAND, Miss. – Senior Madeline Pitt and freshman Morgan Ayers each picked up two wins at a double-dual meet against Delta State and Emory in Cleveland, Mississippi, on Saturday. The 10th-ranked University of West Florida women's swimming and diving team grabbed a 162-137 win over No. 16 DSU and fell 168-132 to NCAA Division III powerhouse Emory.
 
"We're really happy with the day," head coach Andrew Hancock said. "We set a goal for ourselves early in the year that we wanted to perform well here. We wanted to make an adjustment from last year, and the team did a great job of that. We're starting to really come together as a group, and we're very satisfied with the day."
 
Pitt's day began with a win in the 1,000 Free (10:28.08) when she finished with a two-second edge over Emory's Rebecca Upton. The race was tight to the end, with Pitt, Upton and Delta State's Sierra Rhodes trading the lead until the final six laps when Pitt pulled away.
 
Pitt would finish her day with a win in the 400 IM, a race that she led wire-to-wire and clocked a 4:33.31. She also took second place in the 200 Fly, at 2:09.33.
 
Ayers followed up on an excellent home meet two weekends ago with a pair of wins, in the 100 Breast and 200 Breast. Her 1:06.18 in the 100 Breast was more than two seconds better in a dominant swim, starting with a 31.44 in the opening leg that was nearly a second faster than the next-closest swimmer's.
 
The 200 was Ayers' from the start, as she put up a 33.17 in the opening 50 yards that led the field. Each of her four 50-yard legs of the swim was the fastest in the pool.
 
To no surprise, the UWF diving team impressed and scored major points again for the Argonauts. Jesstina Farrell took a win in the 3-meter, dominating with a 282.55 that ranks as the second-best six-dive, 3-meter event in UWF history. Mariah Constantakos (247.95) finished third in the 3-meter.
 
Farrell (239.65), Samantha Cochrane (220.40) and Francesca Vozzola (213.00) finished 2-3-4 in the 1-meter event, and all West Florida divers finished ahead of at least one diver from Delta State and Emory on the day.
 
Senior Grace Sommerville came just 0.02 seconds from a win in the 500 Free (5:08.32), as she and Upton were never separated by more than 1.03 seconds throughout the race. She also put together a top-five in the 400 IM.
 
Taby Read-Cayton also had a second-place finish, taking silver in the 50 Free (24.44) and finishing just two-tenths of a second behind Celina Batsel of Delta State.
 
Other top UWF finishes included Caitlin Tierney's third-place swim in the 200 Free (1:55.83), Hannah O'Toole (1:08.95) and Manon Milczynski (1:10.21) taking third and fifth in the 100 Breast, Danica Burnett going 24.85 in the 50 Free and finishing fifth, and Brooke Ferrara (2:13.04) and Pia Hulley (2:13.22) finishing 4-5 in the 200 Back.
 
UWF will wrap up its regular season next Saturday with a Senior Day meet against Georgia Southern at 11 am in the UWF Aquatic Center.