MANKATO, Minn. --- The Minnesota State women's swimming and diving team opened its season at home with a dual against the University of South Dakota.

USD defeated MSU by the score of 192-108 as the Mavericks won two events.

"The coaches and I were very pleased with the team's first performance tonight," head coach Nathan Owens said. "South Dakota has a great team and is loaded with talent, we felt like our women had really good energy and effort tonight. We posted a lot of solid results for an early season long format dual meet.

"Our divers and junior, Aspen Warnygora, had an awesome night on the boards. We're going to keep working hard in training and work towards getting a little better every week. If we can peak at the right time at our championship meets, we're on track to have some great results later in the year."

Junior Aspen Warnygora won both the 1-meter and 3-meter diving events as she posted scores of 234.50 and 243.25, respectively. Junior Sydney Hanson took second place in the 1-meter diving event also with a score of 228.15.

 In the relay events, the Mavericks turned in a pair of second-place finishes. The team of junior Abby Gronholz, sophomore Megan Schultz, sophomore Claudia Schwartz and senior Elise Mishmash turned in a time of 1:47.01 in the 200 medley relay, while the quartet of junior Maija Carriveau, senior Brooke Shell, sophomore Maci Boffeli and Mishmash posted a time of 1:39.06 in the 200 freestyle relay.

Gronholz took second place in the 100 backstroke with a time of 58.89, while Ola Gorecki finished second in the 200 backstroke with a time of 2:09.77. Sophomore Lauren Fisher also took second in the 200 IM with a time of 2:16.06.

The Mavericks also notched a pair of second-place finishes in the breaststroke events. Schultz recorded a time of 1:07.39 in the 100 breaststroke event and a time of 2:28.80 in the 200 breaststroke event.

In the 1,000 freestyle junior Sienna Sirek Kreye took second place with a time of 11:10.83.

Minnesota State returns to action on Saturday, October 14 as it takes on St. Cloud State, UW-La Crosse and Truman State at 1:00 p.m. The diving events will be held in Mankato, Minn., while the swimming events will take place in Rochester, Minn.