GROVE CITY, Pa. – The Penn State Behrend men's swimming and diving continued their supremacy in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) by winning their seventh consecutive championship title on Saturday evening.
The Lions won every event during the meet to gather a team score of 408, a 253-point difference between them and second-place Pitt-Bradford with a 155 total. Cabrini took third (112) and Penn State Altoona was fourth (88).
Dan Simon (Harrison City, PA/Penn Trafford) and Javier Solivan (San Juan, Puerto Rico/UHS) were tied for the highest-point earners for the men with 27 points apiece.
Simon broke an 11-year old team record in the 200 backstroke preliminaries with a time of 1:57.63. That mark also set a new AMCC open and meet record. In the finals, Simon finished in first place with a new time of 1:56.65 to reset the records he set earlier in the day.
Solivan did the same in the 100 freestyle. In the prelims, he broke the team, AMCC open and meet record with a time of 47.39. and then swam .04 seconds better in the finals to break his own records. Everett Sargent (Gibsonia, PA/Pine-Richland) finished a close second in the 100 free (47.67).
Simon, Solivan, Sargent and Clay Altemose (Apollo, PA/Apollo-Ridge) were able to break all three records (team, AMCC open and meet) in the 400 free relay with a new time of 3:07.67.
Ryan Mitcheltree (Moon Township, PA/Moon) is the champion in the 1650 freestyle with a winning time of 16:56.61. That same time was good enough for a team, AMCC open and meet record. Mitcheltree was also second in the 200 butterfly, behind the champion in Altemose. The senior earned a time of 1:58.14 to win and Mitcheltree posted a time of 2:01.61.
Andrew Neder (Erie, PA/Fairview) was crowned champion of the three-meter diving competition with a score of 398.85.
In the 200 breaststroke, Justin Pritchard (Cranberry Township, PA/Seneca Valley) led the way for the Lions with a time of 2:14.16 for first and Eric Peirce (Harmony, PA/Seneca Valley) was right behind in second (2:20.66).
No other team in the AMCC has won the championships since they began in 2007.
