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Despite winning 11 events, the Lancers lost the swim meet on Friday at Mt. San Antonio College.

PCC team members placed first in the Women’s 50 Freestyle, 50 Breast stroke, 100 Breast stroke, 100 Individual Medley, 100 Butterfly, 200 Medley Relay, 1000 Freestyle, the Men’s 200 Individual Medley, 200 Butterfly, 500 Freestyle, and 1000 Freestyle.

“We came out on fire,” said Coach Terry Stoddard.

The first half of the meet, events one through fourteen, PCC won half the events. The Lancers had no divers, losing the next two events by default. The second half of the meet, events 17 through 30, PCC won six out of thirteen events.

” [The loses] hurt. [It was] hard to come back from that,” said Stoddard.

Mikela Velasquez, Giselle Mendieta, Paige Watroba, and Courtney Jensen won the Women’s 200 Medley Relay. Jensen finished her split at 2:01, beating Mt Sac’s Michaela Randolph who finished at 2:09.

Mendieta won the 50 Breast stroke at 34 seconds by about six seconds and the 100 Breast stroke at 1:15 by about six seconds.

Velasquez won the 50 Freestyle at 25 seconds by about two seconds and the 100 Individual Medley Relay at 1:04 by about a second.

Watroba won the 100 Butterfly at 1:05 by about a second.

Jensen won the 1000 Freestyle at 11:42 by about two seconds.

Cario Liu won the Men’s 1000 Freestyle at 10:18 by about 33 seconds,the 500 Freestyle at 5:00 by about 17 seconds and the 200 Individual Medley at 1:59 by about 11 seconds.

Stephen To won the 200 Butterfly at 1:05 by about 11 seconds.

We were outstanding and performed well but not having divers really hurt us and Mt. Sac was just better today, Stoddard said.

             The weather was cold and it had been lightly raining. The stands were fairly empty and all the swimmers’ belongings were under their tents. Swimmers, their family members, and friends were sitting cheering the PCC team on.

Stoddard said the freshmen like Watroba and Mendieta pulled their weight and did their job. The sophomores came back and were “stellar,” he said.

“I did a lot better today than I have this past season,” Jensen said. 

All the swimmers work hard at practice and all the hard work is paying off, despite the loss to Mt. Sac, Jensen said.

For each event the coaches from either side were shouting and cheering on their swimmers. The swimmers who weren’t in the event were close by the pool shouting encouraging words for their fellow team mates. The few people in the stands were cheering the swimmers on. You could here people screaming “yeah, come on!” or “Go PCC!”.  The other side you could hear the same shouts for Mt. Sac

 

 

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