WOOSTER, Ohio – For the third year in a row, The College of Wooster's Ollie Bream and Josh Pearson swept the 400 individual medley titles at the program's annual Wooster Invitational, which continued on Friday at Ellen Shapiro Natatorium. Bream, a junior, scored first-place finish number seven over her career at the meet, while Pearson's marked the senior's fifth.

Pearson's winning time of 4:04.43 was over nine seconds better than his prelim swim of 4:13.66. Bream's 4:33.40 ranked about two seconds ahead of University of Cumberlands' Alicja Sedlak, who was the runner up.

Bream's top billing was one of four top-three Friday finishes for the Fighting Scots' women. Senior Maddie Becker's 1:06.72 was the runner-up time in the 100 breaststroke, while both of the Scots' top relays were third-place finishers. In the 200 medley relay, Becker, junior Izzy Bellefleur, Bream, and junior Hallie Findlan went 1:46.51, while Bream, sophomore Emma Humbert, junior JP Timken, and senior Emma Connors capped the session with an 8:02.17 in the 800 freestyle relay.

Other individual championship final placers were first-year Charlotte Helm (sixth, 100 backstroke, 1:01.16), Bellefleur (seventh, 100 breaststroke, 1:08.81), Connors (seventh, 200 freestyle, 2:00.48), and first-year Becca Murray (eighth, 100 butterfly, 1:01.91). In the diving well, junior Cady Eakins scored 227.30 points for a sixth-place finish on the one-meter board, while first-year Grace Laymon was ninth with 150.85 points.

First-year Tara McGovern, junior Vicky Maumbe, Murray, and Helm rounded out the top-eight placers on the night with a 1:54.70 in the 200 medley relay. Findlan and Humbert won consolation finals with times of 1:02.11 and 4:45.58 in the 100 backstroke and 400 individual medley, respectively, while McGovern's 1:03.18 was right behind Findlan in the backstroke. First-year Kate Peck, sophomore Lacey Mindock, first-year Anna Lundquist, and sophomore Bailey Nickols went 8:28.81 to claim a ninth-place finish in the 800 freestyle.

On the men's side, Wooster's strength is the 400 individual medley, where three current Scots hold top-10 times in program history. While they did not hit collegiate-bests on Friday evening, all three were in the championship final. Junior Tucker Andrewjeski's 4:09.78 was the fourth-place time, while junior Isaac Shaker supported Pearson and Andrewjeski with the sixth-place time of 4:11.95.

Sophomore Blu Catanzaro led the way on the three-meter diving board with the runner-up score of 325.10 points. Big points were scored there by the Scots, with sophomore Leo Edmonds-Doberenz (281.25 points) and classmate Noah McDonald (236.60 points) scoring sixth- and ninth-place finishes, respectively.

Pearson, junior Ryan Gross, sophomore Boston Sullivan, and sophomore Callum Glover teamed up for a fourth-place time of 7:01.14 in the 800 freestyle relay, while first-year Ethan Neuner, sophomore Will Laubacher, sophomore Flynn Cowie, and Shaker stopped the watch at 7:14.64, which was good for seventh. Seventh is where sophomore Will Laymon, Sullivan, Pearson, and Neuner wound up in the 200 medley relay after a time of 1:35.70.

Sullivan's 58.18 in the 100 breaststroke was the seventh-place time. He was just shy of a lifetime best of 58.12, which rates as the third-fastest time in program history. Glover did score a top-10 program time with the 1:44.18 from prelims in the 200 freestyle ranking eighth. Glover finished eighth in finals at 1:44.26. Junior Max Likins was the top performer in the 100 backstroke (12th, 53.95) and the 100 butterfly (18th, 53.88).

Wooster's women are comfortably in second-place at 961 points. The men are fighting the University of Mount Union for third-place. The Purple Raiders carry a 797.5-787 lead over the Scots into the final day of competition. University of Cumberlands, a NAIA program, is leading the way with 1,499.5 men's points and 1,270 points on the women's side.

The Wooster Invitational concludes on Saturday. The morning prelims session starts at 10 a.m. with diving (on campus) at 2 p.m., and finals at 5 p.m.

note: scores in results file do not include points from the diving competition