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| Dec. 5-7 | Gabrielsen Natatorium | Athens, Ga. | |
Results | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | FINAL Team Score: 331.5 pts (5th Place) | |
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ATHENS, Ga. - Senior Nate Savoy (Reading, Pa.) notched another top five finish as the Penn State men's swimming and diving team racked up 106 points on the Georgia Fall Invite's final day for a fifth place finish out of the eight team field.
The lions ended the three-day championship style meet with 331.5 points , 20 ahead of sixth place Florida State. Savoy, who finished second in the 100 back (46.56) on Saturday, placed fifth in the 200 back on Sunday with a 1:42.60 performance. The time was good enough for an NCAA `B' standard and was the fastest on the team this season, earning his squad a valuable 14 points.
Scoring more points for Penn State on Sunday were David Gross (Perryville, Md.), Nick Ankosko (East Brunswick, N.J.), Matt Stasiunas (Avondale, Pa.) and Conall Loughlin (Blue Bell, Pa.) who combined for 20 points in the 1650 free. Gross and Ankosko finished ninth and 10th respectively, while Stasiunas and Loughlin placed 14th and 16th.
Senior Jonathan Ekstrom (Silver Spring, Md.) netted an additional four points with his 2:02.66, 13th place finish in the 200 breast, and Bob Bantley (Maple, Glen, Pa.) and Jeff Young (Hershey, Pa.) earned a total of three, finishing 15th and 16th respectively in the 100 free. Kyle Madley (Madison, N.J.) scored the final individual swimming point for head coach Tim Murphy on Sunday as he placed 16th in the 200 fly, with a 1:48.30 time.
Freshman Travis Wright (Derby, N.Y.) was the lone Lion competing in the platform dive on day three as he netted five points with his 12th place, 188.60 performance.
The PSU relay teams had a stellar day, wrapping up competition with a seventh place and 13th place finish in the 400 freestyle. The quartet of Savoy, Young, Bantley and Stasiunas earned a season best 2:57.74 time and racked up a total of 24 team points. Tim Maurer (Hershey, Pa.), Will Walker (White Lake, Mich.), Ryan O'Neill (Howell, N.J.) and Zach Kantz (Mount Bethel, Pa.) earned another dozen team points with their 3:03.02 time in the event.
Finished with its 2014 portion of the 2014-15 schedule PSU will next take part in its annual training trip to Naples, Fla., before getting back in the pool for a double-dual meet versus Yale and Rutgers, scheduled for Jan. 16-17 in New Brunswick, N.J.