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Dec. 6, 2014
ATHENS, Ga. - Senior Nate Savoy (Reading, Pa.) placed second in the 100-yard backstroke as the Penn State men's swimming and diving team currently sits fifth out of eight teams with a score of 222.5 following the second day of competition at the Georgia Fall Invitational, Saturday. The Nittany Lions posted four top-eight finishes in the championship style event.
Savoy got a hand on the wall in 46:56 in the finals of the 100 back for his second place finish, picking up 17 points for Penn State. In the morning prelims, the senior touched the wall in 46.46, the top time in the event for the Nittany Lions this season.
Sophomore Matt Stasiunas (Avondale, Pa.) tallied 12 team points with a seventh-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle. Stasiunas clocked in with a 1:37.72, posting a 2014-15 top-time in the prelims with a 1:37.57.
The 200-yard medley relay team of Savoy, sophomore Andrew Schuehler (Camden, N.J.), senior Kyle Madley (Madison, N.J.) and junior Matt Grillo (Montreal, Quebec) also had a strong performance, collecting 30 team points with a fourth-place time of 1:27.53 in the evening competition. Their prelim time of 1:25.38 was a season-best.
Savoy, Stasiunas, senior Nick Ankosko (East Brunswick, N.J.) and freshman Ryan O'Neill (Howell, N.J.) earned 28 points for the Nittany Lions in their first 800-yard freestyle relay competition of the season, touching the wall in 6:31.23.
Schuehler also picked up a 10th-place finish, collecting seven points, in the 100-yard breaststroke, posting a time of 55.35 in the finals.
The last day of the three-day event will take place tomorrow, Dec. 7. The prelims begin at 9:30 a.m. and the finals take place at 3 p.m. There will be seven men's events on Sunday.