FEDERAL WAY, Wash. - Swimming with a bit more confidence, the Puget Sound Loggers swam up to their competition, posting a number of NCAA qualifying times on the second day of the Husky Invitational on Friday at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way, Wash.

The Loggers met their first qualifying time in the men's 200 medley relay, as their sixth place time of 1:33.26 met the NCAA B-Cut.  In the women's 100 breast, freshman Sierra Phillips (Cottonwood Heights, Utah/Brighton) met the B-Cut with a time of 1:07.05 to win the "C" Final against an all Division I field. 

In the men's 100 breast, senior Paul Hughes (Ruston, Wash./Curtis) met the NCAA Division III A-Cut with a fourth-place finish in the "C" Final with a time of 55.70.  According to D3swimming.com, Hughes' time is the top DIII time in the nation this year.

Also recording a qualifying time in the men's 100 breast was junior Aaron Hughes (Ruston, Wash./Curtis) took second in the "D" Final with a B-Cut time of 57.82.  The Loggers' final qualifying time of the day came in the men's 100 back by Jackson Kowalski (Keizer, Ore./McNary) with a 51.94 B-Cut time in prelims and a sixth-place finish in the "B" Final with a finals time of 52.35.

The Husky Invitational continues on Saturday, with preliminaries set for 9:30 a.m. and finals beginning at 6:00 p.m.

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