LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Jeremy Tan won the 100-yard backstroke title by almost a full second, and then led the 400-yard medley relay team to another title, as the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps men's swimming and diving team opened up a huge 227-point lead after three days of the SCIAC Championships at East Los Angeles College Swim Stadium. 

The Stags have 727 points with one day left to compete, while Pomona-Pitzer is a distant second with 499 points, and Chapman is third with 366. 

Tan finsihed with a 48.90 in the 100 back, with second place going to Garrett Krattinger with 49.71, while Dylan Krueger was third to All-SCIAC honors for the second time this weekend with a 49.83. Grant Stucky also earned a spot in the finals and came in eighth. 

Krueger came in second yesterday in the 50 free, and swam the butterfly leg of the winning medley relay team, along with Tan, Evan Deedy and Sean Su, which finished in 3:17.51, the fifth-fastest in program history. The winning margin was over four seconds ahead of second-place Chapman, after Pomona-Pitzer was disqualified.  

Deedy set a new CMS record in the 100-yard breaststroke, coming in second with 54.14, which took over a half-second off his own program mark of 54.76 set last year. Kenny Eckel, who won the 200 IM yesterday, also qualified for the finals and came in fourth. 

Dean Ko earned All-SCIAC honors in the 400 IM, earning a 3:59.50, taking a hundredth of a second off of his personal best, which ranks seventh in CMS history. Henry Lyons (fifth) and Cole Sumino (eighth) also qualified for the finals. 

Spencer Merodio and Sean Su were the second and third place finishers in the men's 200-yard freestyle, with Merodio breaking the 1:40 mark for the first time in 1:39.99, which places eighth at CMS, while Su moves into ninth place with a 1:40.28. Lucas Lang (fifth) and Alex Davies (ninth) also earned spots in the finals. 

In the three-meter dive, Ethan Sattley earned All-SCIAC honors for the first time in his career with a third-place finish, earning 425.50 points. Jack Griffith came in fourth, and Luke Vlases was fifth. 

The final day of the championships gets underway with prelims at 9 a.m. and finals at 5 p.m., beginning with the 1650, where defending national champion Lucas Lang will look to defend his league title.