BEHREND MEN CONTINUE TO DOMINATE ON DAY TWO OF CHAMPIONSHIPS

The Penn State Behrend men's swimming and diving team continue their commanding lead at the 2016 AMCC Championships after the second day of competition on Saturday.

The Lions now hold a dominating lead with 255 points with day two in the books. Behrend won six out of the seven events tonight and are 155 points in front of second place Pitt-Bradford (100). Cabrini is third (70) and Penn St. Altoona is fourth (49).

Junior Nick Kost was named the 400 IM Champion for third year in a row and also was first overall for the Longnecker Invitational with an NCAA "B" cut time of 4:06.73, nearly 12 seconds faster than the preliminaries. This is the second AMCC title for Kost this weekend. He also took first in the 200 IM on Friday. 

The Lions opened day two finals with the AMCC title in the 200 medley relay. Freshman Mark Patterson, sophomore Blair Carson, junior Nick Roth and freshman Nick Snyder made up the winning team with a time of 1:37.92. Snyder had the best split as the anchor, clocking in at 21.66.

In addition to the relay win, Roth was named AMCC Champion in the 100 butterfly, clocking in at 52.37.

Patterson then captured the gold in the 200 freestyle with a top time of 1:45.79.

The Lions surrendered their lone gold medal in the 100 backstroke when Pitt-Bradford sophomore Corey Koss reached the wall in 55.66 for a first place finish.

AMCC swimmers and divers return to action tomorrow for the final day of the championships. Preliminaries begin at 10 a.m. with finals at 6 p.m.

Click here for Friday's results.