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GENEVA, Ohio -- The Wayne State University men's swimming and diving team earned its best finish in three seasons at the 2014 NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships, as the Warriors placed third at the national finals, which concluded Saturday at the SPIRE Institute.

Wayne State finished just 2.5 points out of second place, finishing with 358.5 points in the overall team standings. Drury won the championships with 569.5 points, while Florida Southern was second with 361 points. A total of 30 men's teams scored at the meet.

The last time the Warriors placed in the top three was in 2011. It's the fourth time in the past six years that the Warriors have finished in the top three and 10th straight finish in the top eight at the national finals for WSU.

Wayne State, which entered Saturday's finals down 2.5 points for second, made a strong run at the runner-up spot, earning 104 points on Saturday alone.

Junior diver Dylan Szegedi (Oregon, Ohio / St. Francis de Sales) put together dive after dive as he finished second in the three-meter diving finals. Szegedi had a personal-best score of 561.80, easily earning a runner-up finish by 37.90 points. Clarion's Heath Calhoun won the title with a record 615.95 points.

Freshman Till Barthel (Hannover, Germany) placed fifth in the 100 freestyle finals, posting a time of 44.25.

The Warriors swept the top two spots in the 200 backstroke "B" finals as freshman Juan David Molina Perez (Medellin, Colombia) and junior Lucas Fernandez Vilanova (Valencia, Spain) finished ninth and 10th overall. Molina Perez had a time of 1:45.92 and Fernandez Vilanova touched in 1:45.94.

Wayne State had a pair of swimmers in the 200 breaststroke finals. Junior Piotr Jachowicz (Lodz, Poland) placed fourth with a time of 1:57.69, while sophomore Jayson Hansen (Grand Blanc, Mich. / Grand Blanc) was eighth in a time of 1:58.59.

The Warriors capped off the night and the championships with a fifth-place finish in the 400 freestyle relay. The relay quartet of Barthel, senior Kristian Larsen, Fernandez Vilanova and freshman Soren Holm earned a time of 2:57.64. Florida Southern only beat the Warriors by .31 seconds in the relay to earn second place.

The 358.5 points earned by WSU at the 2014 NCAA Championships was also the highest for a Warrior men's team since the second-place 2009 squad scored 504.5 points. WSU had 10 men's student-athletes earn All-American awards during the championships.