FREDONIA, NY – After day two of the Fredonia State Blue Devil Invitational on Saturday, the Penn State Behrend men's swimming and diving team remains in fourth place out of nine teams with a score of 297.
Wheeling Jesuit remains out front with a commanding 441 points, followed closely by Allegheny with 424.5 and Fredonia is third (306.5).
In the first finals event, Mark Patterson (North Huntingdon, PA/Norwin), Victor Nguyen (San Jose, CA/Evergreen Valley), Nick Kost (Ashburn, VA/Stone Bridge) and Nick Roth (Pittsburgh, PA/Baldwin) finished in third place in the 400 medley relay with a time of 3:34.70. Roth had the best place of the day, touching in second in the 200 fly in 1:58.05.
Patterson also took third individually in the 500 free with a time of 4:46.37. Roth also made the top eight, coming in fifth in 4:49.51. The freshman also led the Lions in the 200 backstroke. He placed fourth in a time of 1:56.84. This time, Kost was the second Behrend swimmer in the "A" final, taking sixth in 2:01.38.
In the 100 breaststroke, Nguyen made the "A" final and took third overall with a time of 58.47. Blair Carson (Wellsboro, PA/Wellsboro) and Scott Romanko (Plum, PA/Plum) competed in the "B" final, finishing 11th (1:01.64) and 14th (1:04.04), respectively.
Four swimmers qualified for the 100 freestyle "B" final. Ty Elder (Brentwood, CA/Heritage) was first on the team and 11th overall in 49.66. Kyle Frerichs (Sellersville, PA/Pennridge) was 13th (49.89) ,Ryan Siggins (Erie, PA/Iroquois) came in 14th (50.08) and Matt Myers (Cranberry Township, PA/Seneca Valley) took 16th (50.82) and all separated by hundredths of a second.
In the first relay of the day, Patterson, Nguyen, Roth and Kost were third in the 400 medley relay in 3:34.70. The night concluded with the 200 free relay team of Myers, Elder, Justin Spence (Houston, TX/Cy-Fair) and Frerichs taking sixth in 1:30.99.
The Lions returns to action tomorrow for the final day of the invite. Preliminaries begin at 10 a.m. with finals at 5 p.m.
