ORLANDO â€" With Florida Southern holding a 125-point lead going into the final day of the Sunshine State Conference Championships, Juan Tolosa and Thomas Nguyen made sure Nova Southeastern never got close enough to mount a serious threat. With that pair giving them two wins right out of the gate, the Moccasins wrapped up their second straight SSC title, while the Sharks fell to third behind Tampa.

Florida Southern scored 914 points in the meet, with Tampa over-taking Nova with 759 points. The Sharks, who were SSC champions in 2011 and 2012, and the runner-up in 2013, finished with 736. The Moccasins went out strong too, winning four of the five individual events on Saturday, as junior Spencer Rowe (Chattanooga, Tenn.) and sophomore Raul Garrastazu (Dorado, P.R.) winning the 200-breaststroke and 200-butterfly respectively, after Tolosa and Nguyen started the day in the 1650-freestyle and 200-backstroke.

Tolosa and Rowe were second and third in the individual point totals used to determine the SSC Men’s Swimmer-of-the-Meet. That award went to Saint Leo sophomore Matheus Assis, who was the only swimmer to win three individual titles. He also won that honor last season.

Tolosa picked up his second gold medal of the SSC Championships by winning the 1,650-yard freestyle. The sophomore from Guipuzcoa, Spain, started the meet with a win in the 1,000-yard freestyle on Wednesday, and also finished second to Garrastazu by less than two-tenths of a second in the 500-freestyle on Thursday. Saturday he easily out-distanced Nova Southeastern’s Addison Cates by nearly 20 seconds, a league championship record for winning margin. His NCAA provisional time of 15:32.26 was a little over one second off the SSC record, and less than one second away from his own school record set at last year’s NCAA finals.

By taking second, fourth, and sixth place in the 1650, Nova Southeastern cut into Florida Southern’s overall margin, but with four swimmers reaching the championship finals of the 200-yard backstroke, the Moccasins were in good shape. Nguyen captured the gold medal in 1:45.20, marking the fourth straight year Florida Southern won the SSC individual title in the event. It was Jeb Halfacre in 2011 and 2012, and Luis Rojas last year. For Nguyen, a senior from Snellville, Georgia, Saturday marked the second time this season he achieved an NCAA automatic qualifying mark in the 200-backstroke, and he’s won four consecutive races.

Rojas was fourth in the 200-backstroke in 1:47.56, though the junior from Caracas, Venezuela had already hit an NCAA automatic time earlier this season. Freshman Evan Coleman (Yarmouth, Maine) was right behind him in fifth place, and sophomore Edson Lima (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) was seventh. Coleman’s time of 1:48.78 allowed him to reach an NCAA “B” standard.

With senior Robbie Swan (Snellville, Ga.) the only Moccasin to reach the championship finals of the 100-freestyle, Florida Southern didn’t have the opportunity to score as many points, but Nova also got just one swimmer into the finals, and Swan finished three places ahead of him in third. His time of 44.67 seconds was an NCAA “B” standard and his best of the season. Assis won the race for Saint Leo in a meet-record time of 44.13 seconds, and Tampa had four of the top swimmers to move ahead of Nova in the team standings.

In addition to Swan, the Moccasins got NCAA “B” times in the 100-freestyle from senior Zach Edwards (Jacksonville, Fla.) and freshman Diego Gimenez (Burgos, Spain).

Florida Southern dominated the 200-yard breaststroke, where Rowe won his second individual breaststroke title and set a new championship record in 1:58.01. He finished more than five seconds ahead of Florida Tech’s Brian Dumont. The Moccasins then saw junior Dylan Lake (Los Alamos, N.M.) take third place, and freshman Patrick Costello (Rochester Hills, Mich.) finish fourth.

The Moccasins added another individual win after that, as Garrastazu captured the 200-yard butterfly in 1:47.16 to set another SSC Championship record. He fell just short of an NCAA automatic qualifying time, but it did set a Florida Southern school record as Garrastazu eclipsed the previous mark set by Bruce Janzen last year by almost two seconds. Junior Allan Gutierrez (San Pedro Sula, Honduras), who had held the Mocs’ season-best time coming into Saturday, was third in the 200-butterfly with an NCAA “B” time of 1:49.89. Redshirt freshman Alec Wathen (Sunrise, Fla.) was in the finals too, and placed sixth.

The final event of the meet saw the Florida Southern 400-yard freestyle relay team finish third, with Gutierrez, Rojas, sophomore Jesus Marin (Cumana, Venezuela), and Swan swimming the race in 2:59.04. That was their best time of the season, and an NCAA “B” qualifying mark.

Florida Southern will now prepare for the NCAA Division II National Championships, which be held March 12-15, in Geneva, Ohio. Selections will be announced Wednesday night, February 26.