Feb. 28, 2015
IOWA CITY, Iowa - Led by Shane Ryan (Havertown, Pa.) and Nate Savoy's (Reading, Pa.) gold and silver performance in the 100 back, the Penn State men's swimming and diving team has surged into seventh place at the 2015 Big Ten Championships with 169 total points.
Ryan's medal was his second of the championship session and goes along nicely with his bronze from the 50 free a day ago. On Friday he touched the wall in 45.54, and took home a golden 20 points for his team.
Not too far off his pace was Savoy who was right behind Ryan with a 46.10 performance, which earned the Nittany Lions 17 total team points.
Also scoring in the 100 back was Kyle Madley (Madison, N.J.), who placed 13th with his 47.79 time.
Netting more crucial team points for head coach Tim Murphy's squad were Andrew Schuehler (Camden, N.J.) who finished 11th in the 100 breast and scored six points with his 53.43 time, as well as Bob Bantley (Maple Glen, Pa.), who earned three points with his 1:36.72 performance in the 200 free.
The Lions added to their Friday point total with a fourth place finish in the 200 free relay. The team of Savoy, Ryan, Matt Grillo (Montreal, Quebec) and Jeff Young (Hershey, Pa.) finished in 1:18.36 which earned a total of 14 points.
Penn State is now 17.5 points ahead of host Iowa who sits in eighth place and 73 points behind sixth place Minnesota with just one more day of competition to go.
The B1G's final day gets underway at 12 p.m. eastern with preliminaries and wraps up with finals at 7:30 p.m. in Iowa City.