Penn State men's gymnast Josh Borromeo was swarmed by fans at the conclusion of the Nittany Lions' meet against Temple in Rec Hall on Friday night.

The team had a pizza social immediately following the event where fans could get autographs of their favorite gymnast, and Borromeo's line was the longest.

Two busloads of fans came from Littlestown to Rec Hall to watch their native son and the rest of the No. 5 Lions defeat the Owls 202.450-190.050.

Even though Borromeo only competed in the rings, he received the loudest applause of anyone the entire night when his name was announced.

The freshman finished in second, with a score of 8.150, to fellow Lions sophomore Vladi Klurman who beat him by .05 with an 8.200.

"It's great to have all of my friends and family here." Borromeo said. "It fueled me and made me stronger."

Borromeo's family, friends and hometown gymnastics team chartered buses to watch him in the first home meet of his career.

"He's a kid that's working hard," Penn State men's gymnastics coach Randy Jepson said. "He does everything you tell him and gets better every week. That's really all you can ask for."

Jepson, though, described the team's overall performance as, "sloppy," with too many mistakes that need to be worked on.

"We fell down a little bit from last week in terms of performance," Jepson said. "We were not quite as sharp but you always have some bumps along the way."

The Lions took all six events while shutting the Owls out of the top three in the parallel bars, vault and pommel horse.

Senior Chad Buczek won the floor exercise with a 9.100 and led the way for the young team.

For the second week in a row, freshman Casey Sandy took the all-around competition by a five-point margin with a 52.650.

Sandy finished first in the high bar, pommel horse and parallel bars as well as drawing rave reviews from his coach.

Jepson described Sandy's performance as "great," but Sandy used different words to describe his day.

"I think it's a good start so far," Sandy said. "But it's only been two meets."

Sandy said the highlight of his night was on the high bar, where, after falling in practice before the event, he managed to take first in actual competition with a 9.050.

The high score of the night was sophomore Santiago Lopez's 9.500 on the vault.

Lopez also finished third in the parallel bars and impressed Jepson in the high bar.

"At the last second we had to make a lineup change in the high bar where we had to substitute Shaun Antonio out and put in Santiago," Jepson said. "He came in and came through with a good routine."

But when the time for autographs came after the announcement of the final scores, the freshman from Littlestown who competed in just one event the entire night received the most attention.

"I just love the support here," Borromeo said as he finished signing a little girl's team poster. "It's really great."