AKRON, Ohio – Mount Union's men's swimming and diving team finished in third place after the first day of the Ohio Athletic Conference Championships at Ocasek Natatorium at the University of Akron on Thursday evening.

The Purple Raiders finished with a team score of 165 which is 14 points ahead of fourth place Wilmington. John Carroll leads the event with a team score of 308.

All-OAC Finishers:

• 800-yard freestyle relay: team consisting of senior Dylan Cossin (Stow / Stow-Munroe Falls), senior Conner Arneson (Mount Horeb, Wis.), junior Jacob Hathaway (Lexington) and junior Lucas Starling (Lexington) broke the school record with a time of 6:48.33 in a third-place finish
• 200-yard freestyle: Cossin broke the school record with a time of 1:40.93 as the lead-off leg of the 800-yard freestyle relay
• 500-yard freestyle: Cossin finished second and broke his own school record with a time of 4:32.68

Team Scores

1. John Carroll 308, 2. Ohio Northern 204, 3. Mount Union 165, 4. Wilmington 151, 5. Baldwin Wallace 129

The Raiders return to action tomorrow for the second day of the OAC Championships at Ocasek Natatorium in Akron, with prelims starting at 10 a.m., diving at 2 p.m. and finals at 6 p.m.