(AKRON, Ohio) - Sondre Haugen surges into the Quakers record book with an amazing performance in the 500 Yard Freestyle, winning the team's first individual Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) title at this year's championship in Akron on Thursday.

Haugen eeked out a win over Mount Union's Dylan Cossin by less than one-tenth of a second, winning with a time of 4:32.59. Haugen entered the finals with the third fastest performance of the prelims, but kept up with Cossin through the entire race, always either ahead or within a second at each split. Cossin led Haugen by a half-second at the final turn, but Haugen turned in his best split of the race, swimming the final 25 yards with his fastest split at 25.92 seconds.

Both of Haugen's times put him in the record books for the 500 Yard Freestyle, first for the 4:40.78 prelims and then beating it again with his finals time.

The 400 Yard medley team of John Good, Jo Pedersen, Haugen and Austin Reed would finish on the podium with a third place finish of 3:23.58. That same quartet swam the 200 Yard Freestyle relay to a fourth place finish with a time of 1:24.50. Both these times were new program records. 

Pedersen went on to finish seventh in the 200 Yard Individual Medley with a time of 1:56.00.

Good finished eighth in the 50 Yard Freestyle with a time of 21.46.

Competing in the B finals for Wilmington were Reed, Parker Basener, and Adam Moneypenny. Reed took fifth in his heat of the 500 Yard Freestyle with a finals time of 4:51.91 and 13th place overall. Basener was second in the B finals of the 200 Yard IM at 1:57.76 and 10th overall. In the same event, Moneypenny finished in 2:06.07 for 16th place. 

After Day 2, the Quakers sit in fourth place as a team with 151 points, just 14 points behind Mount Union, who has 165 points. John Carroll leads with 308 points and Ohio Northern is in second with 204 points. The Quakers lead Baldwin Wallace, who has 129 points and Heidelberg.

What's Up Next
Tomorrow, prelims will kick off again at 10:00 A.M. with the 200 Yard Medley Relay, 400 Yard IM, 100 Yard Butterfly, 200 Yard Freestyle, 100 Yard Breaststroke and 100 Yard Backstroke. Finals will be at 6:00 P.M.