FREDONIA, NY – The Penn State Behrend men's swimming and diving team fell short of their fourth straight Fredonia State Blue Devil Invitational title, finishing in third place with a team score of 461.5 on the final day.
Fredonia won with a score of 754.5 and Wheeling Jesuit came in second with a total of 735, while Behrend took third.
Dan Simon (Harrison City, PA/Penn-Trafford) continued to dominate for the Lions, taking first in the 100 backstroke with a time of 49.92. He also led the 200 medley relay to second place (1:36.95) along with Victor Nguyen (San Jose, CA/Evergreen Valley), Nick Roth (Pittsburgh, PA/Baldwin) and Ty Elder (Brentwood, CA/Heritage).
Nick Kost (Ashburn, VA/Stone Bridge) was fourth in the 400 IM, touching in a new program-record time of 4:14.64 and Lloyd Koester (Edinboro, PA/General McLane) was 11th overall to earn points for the Lions (4:59.08)
Simon, Kost, Roth and Steve Torre (South Fayette, PA/South Fayette) were able to take fourth in the 400 free relay with a time of 3:17.87.
In the 200 freestyle, Roth came in fourth place with a time of 1:48.57 and Elder was second on the team and 10th overall (1.50.89). In the same distance but in the breaststroke, Nguyen was the top finisher for Behrend with a time of 2:17.03 for fifth. Eric Matteson (Corry, PA/Corry) and Garrett Wagner (State College, PA/State College) were seventh and eighth, respectively.
Scott Romanko (Plum, PA/Plum) paced the Lions in the 100 butterfly. He tallied an 11th-place finish in 56.26.
Behrend returns to action on Saturday at Penn State Altoona. The meet begins at 1 p.m.
