The Iowa State men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams got a chance to show their stuff Friday as they partook in intersquad scrimmages to prepare for the upcoming season.

Each team split into Cardinal and Gold squads to compete against each other and get a taste of dual meet competition. The men’s scrimmage ended deadlocked at 115-115, while the Gold triumphed in the women’s meet by a score of 135-99.

Leading the way for the male swimmers were Lovrenco Franicivec and Evan deSzoeke.

Franicivec placed first for the Cardinal squad in the 200 freestyle, 200 butterfly and 500 free. deSzoeke took first place for the Gold in the 1000 free and was runner-up to Franicivec in the 500 free.

Kim Reid and Erin Endres of the Gold squad paced the women swimmers as Reid won the 200 individual medley and 200 breast stroke, and Endres sprinted to first place finishes in the 50 and 100 free.

The head coaches of each squad said they were pleased with what they saw from their swimmers.

“We had a vicious weight workout on Thursday so I was pleasantly surprised how well they swam,” Trip Hedrick, head men’s swimming coach, said. He added that he was also surprised with the depth of his team, and they were solid throughout the meet.

Duane Sorenson, head women’s swimming coach, said his freshmen swimmers were able to rise up to the challenge in swimming their first collegiate dual meet competition.

“Our freshmen class swam up to where we had hoped,” he said. “This gave them a real good experience of what our dual meet process is in college.”

Sorenson said his returning swimmers also did a good job, and he was pleased overall with the way everyone swam.

The diving squads for each team also came through with a solid effort.

Head diving Coach Jeff Warrick said he thought both the men and women divers did well as they continued working on new dives to utilize when the season begins.

“I think [the scrimmage] really helped them going into the meet situation; it had the same feel and rules as a regular meet,” he said. “I think it was real important to have this meet before the regular competition.”

Steve Mohabir and Jim Zagaria put together the top performances for the men divers, as Mohabir won the three-meter dive with a score of 273.69, and Zagaria added a first-place finish of 264.78 in the one-meter competition.

Aleisha Kraft and Brooke Stahl paced the women, with Kraft capturing first in the one-meter dive with a 241.05 score and Stahl totaling 229.95 points to take first in the three-meter dive.

Both swimming and diving squads begin competition at the Big Twelve Invitational in Lincoln, Neb., on Oct. 23 and 24.