FARGO, N.D. – South Dakota men's swimming and diving team increased its lead in the team standings following day two of the Summit League Championships Friday inside the Hurlburt Aquatic Center.
 
The Coyote men, three-time league runners-up, have compiled 603 points through two days of the three-day meet. Friday the men's squad won the opening event, the 200 medley relay in a new school record while also placing at least four individuals in all four individual finals.
 
South Dakota has a 110 point lead over South Dakota State and a 222 point lead over seven-time defending league champion Denver.
 
Meanwhile, the Coyote women sit in third following the second day and are just 20 points behind South Dakota State.
 
Brady Torborg, Mack Sathre, Aidan Gantenbein and Zachary Kopp zoomed to the league title in the 200 medley relay, posting a school-record 1:29.43 clocking in the process.
 
The points continued to pile up for the men's squad during the evening finals in the 400 IM, 200 Free, 100 breaststroke and 100 backstroke.
 
Kopp, a sophomore, won his second individual league title of the meet when he touched the wall first in the 100 backstroke in 49.52, his clocking good for the second fastest in school history. The Otsego, Minnesota, native now has two individual and two relay gold medals and is slated to swim in the 100 freestyle prelims on Saturday morning.
 
Kopp edged teammate Torborg, who finished in 49.97 as the Coyotes placed three in the top four in the event as Gantenbein was fourth in 50.23, the sixth fastest clocking all-time.
 
Charlie Bean raced to a second-place finish in the 200 free to earn All-Summit League honors while Griffin Wolner was third in the 400 IM to earn all-league honors.
 
Wolner, a junior, touched in 4:03.23 for the third fastest clocking all-time as the Coyotes placed five in the top 10 in the 400 IM.
 
South Dakota had four in the top 10 in the 200 free and five in the top 10 in the 100 backstroke.
 
Parker Sonnabend also made his way into the Coyote Top 10 with a fourth-place effort in the 100 breaststroke in 56.79.
 
The women's team had two earn all-conference honors in an individual event as junior Lucie Anderson place third for the second straight season in the 100 backstroke, finishing in 57.14.
 
Stella Fairbanks, the 1-Meter Dive champ on Thursday, placed second in the 3-Meter event on Friday, scoring 274.45 in the finals after scoring a season best 286.95 in the prelims.
 
Both the men's (Bean, Wyatt Thompson, Jacob Won, Cooper Fuchs) and women's (Kristen Quigley, Hannah Aitkin, Emily Johnson, Teagan Haberkorn) teams placed third in the 800 free relay to earn all-league honors.
 
Saturday's final day of competition calls for five individual events (10 IM, 1650 Free, 200 backstroke, 100 free, 200 breaststroke and 200 fly) along with the 400 free relay and the men's three-meter dive event.