LOS ANGELES --- Excellence continued for the Eagles, as the Pacific Collegiate Swim Conference Championships moved into day two on Thursday. Two more Biola records were broken, while the men's squad took the lead.

"It was great to see our men and women finish this evening strong!" commented head coach Nate Harding. "There were a lot of emotions put into tonight's swims!"

An impressive day saw the Biola men's swim and dive squad increase its point total to 323.5. The mark was good enough to lead the field of nine teams halfway through the championship meet. The BU women also sit upon the podium through Thursday's events, holding onto third place with 415 points.

Jacob Haaksma shined for the Eagles in the 200 IM. Haaksma was the conference champion, taking first with a time of 1:51.85, which was good for a program record. Coming in third, Tanner Smith added another podium finish for BU in the event with a mark of 1:54.20.

On the women's side, Colette Friedley took fourth in the 200 IM and was joined by Liza Parahnevich in the final. Parahnevich finished in seventh with the duo posting times of 2:07.33 and 2:08.59.

Thursday's long distance event displayed the talent of Noah Hall. For the second-straight day, the freshman collected a school record, while finishing in second place in the 500 free. Hall shaved four seconds off his preliminary time for a finals mark of 4:36.50. Taking third, Alejandro Marchesini followed Hall with a time of 4:37.58 for bronze.

On the diving board, Caleb Pook picked up his second conference championship of the week. Pook took care of business in the 3M dive with a score of 279.85. Luke Bartruff and Luke Hanson followed in fourth and fifth, respectively in the event.

Lorelai Carney was the fifth fifth top scorer in the 1M dive. Carney posted a score of 241.40 through six dive attempts.

Another crown came in from the men's 200 free relay. Caleb Hernandez, Alex Ness, Tanner Smith, and Noah Taylor joined forces to collect a time of 1:23.72. The group trailed by nearly a second heading into the final 50 but Taylor provided the best split to help the team win by .34 seconds.

"We still have a lot of swimming ahead of us and our leaders did a good job of getting the team to build momentum into tonight's swims!" added Harding. "I look forward to watching our team showcase their support for each other by swimming fast tomorrow!"

Biola is back in action on Friday for day three of the conference championships in east Los Angeles.