Greensboro, N.C. — Connecticut College junior Justin Finkel captured his second national title in three days on Friday night at the NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships, winning the 200 butterfly in record-breaking fashion at the Greensboro Aquatic Center.

Finkel made up ground with a late push and touched the wall in 1:43.21, breaking the national Division III record held by Claremont-Mudd-Scripps’ Frank Applebaum. He becomes the first Conn College swimmer to win multiple national titles, as he was also victorious in the 500 freestyle earlier this week.

With the fourth-fastest time of the morning session, Finkel had a tall order ahead of him in the championship final. Applebaum — the two-time defending champion in the 200 fly — turned in the fastest time of the prelims and looked prime for another repeat.

“A lot of things are going through my head right now,” Finkel said after the race. “I’ve been working on it for a while—I’ve done a lot of 200 fly pace—and I’m glad to see it paid off. I worked on my turns a lot this morning, because that was something I fell short on. I’m thankful for everyone who is here—all my friends and family, coaches, and faculty. I’m overwhelmed right now, and happy.”

Finkel shaved 3.6 seconds off his morning prelims time en route to the win. In the process, he swam the race faster than any Division III athlete has ever done before.

“My goal was to have a better race than this morning, and have a best time,” Finkel said. “My best time coming into it was 1:44.3, so I was trying to go a little bit under that, and I guess the record time just came with it. I was really happy with the end result.”

Finkel becomes just the second Conn College student-athlete to win multiple national titles, and the first to do so in the same NCAA Championship. Michael LeDuc won three national titles, two of which came in outdoor track (2013, 2014) and the other in cross country (2013).

Finkel’s performance capped an impressive three days for the junior. In addition to the two national titles, he also finished fourth in the 200 free (1:37.29). He is the first men’s swimmer in Conn College history to qualify for championship finals in three individual events at the same NCAA Championship, and he earned All-America honors in each.

Baseball

• Camren Varney allowed just two earned runs across seven and two third innings as Mitchell College beat Saint Joseph’s College of Maine 4-3 in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference opener for both ball clubs. Varney gave up four hits and three walks, striking out five, while Jadan Canelli picked up his fourth win of the season in relief and Chris Gibbs recorded his first save of the spring.

Mitchell (9-6) scored three runs in the bottom of the fifth inning to take a 3-1 lead. Michael Ficocelli hit a two-run single and Cole Lalli hit a sacrifice fly. Mitchell broke a 3-3 tie in the bottom of the eighth when Savier Paige scored on a throwing error.

• Trinity scored six runs in the top of the ninth inning and beat Coast Guard 14-8 in a nonleague game. Carson Cho homered, Blake George doubled and drove in two runs and Charles Red, Luke Percifield and Cho had two hits each for the Bears (7-4).

Men’s tennis

• Conn College extended its winning streak to six matches with a 9-0 nonconference victory over Wheaton on Thursday. Jules Taylor-Kerman, Sigmund Winiecki and Walker Mulligan each earned a pair of wins for Conn, which stayed hot in its first match back in New England following an unbeaten spring break trip to Florida. The Camels are 7-3 overall.

Women’s lacrosse

• Middlebury, the top-ranked team in Division III, beat Conn College 14-3, in a New England Small College Athletic Conference game. Kate Coughlin score twice and Aine Downey had a goal for the Camels (4-3, 1-3). Hope Shue had four goals for Middlebury (7-0, 4-0).

Coughlin had four goals and an assist and Conn College scored four unanswered goals in the fourth quarter to beat Westfield State 11-9 Wednesday. With Westfield leading 9-7 headed to the fourth, Coughlin scored twice to tie the game, the second on a free position shot at the 9:29 mark. Downey scored with 7:12 remaining to give the Camels a 10-9 edge and Downey assisted Campbell Johnston for an insurance goal.