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For the second
week in a row, the Cerritos College women's swimming
team swept a three-way South Coast Conference meet.
The Falcons (4-0) defeated host Long Beach City
College, 84-43 and Los Angeles Trade-Tech College,
110-12 on Friday. The team will now travel to El
Camino College on Friday for another 2:30 p.m.
conference meet against the host Warriors and Rio
Hondo College.
In winning the
meet, the Falcons also set three more school
records, which means that 10 of the school's 19
individual and relay records have been broken this
year alone.
Breaking her own
record of 26.61 in the 50-yard butterfly, freshman
Natalie Peng (Cerritos HS)
turned in a time of 26.60 to win the event. Freshman
Jenel Lopez (La Serna HS)
broke the record time of 54.38 set by Phyllis Fewer
in 1980 by posting an event-winning time of 53.89 in
the 100-yard freestyle. As for freshman
Brittni
Kimura (Los Altos HS), she
broke the year-old record time of 11:44.96 set by
Stephanie Rosero (Downey HS)
with a clocking of 11:38.57 to win the event.
Sophomore teammate
Denise Vega
(Montebello HS) came in second place and
was over a minute behind Kimura's time.
Also winning
events on the day were freshman
Gina
Kim (Sunny Hills HS),
who captured the 50-yard backstroke in a time of
29.70, while freshman
Karen
Aguirre (Downey HS) placed
second in 31.64. Kim also won the 100-yard
backstroke in 1:03.91, with freshman
Leti
Padilla (Hamilton HS) in
second at 1:08.36. Peng picked up a first place
finish in the 100-yard butterfly in a time of 59.80,
with Lopez winning the 50-yard freestyle in 25.01.
Just as she did in
the 1000-yard freestyle, Kimura finished well ahead
of her competition in the 500-yard freestyle, as she
turned in a winning time of 5:45.53, while freshman
Andrea Garcia (Gahr HS)
captured the 100-yard IM with a time of 1:10.57,
just ahead of Padilla, who was second in 1:10.68.
Sophomore
Hannah
Llamas (Gahr HS) turned in a
second place finish in the 200-yard freestyle with a
time of 2:12.72, while freshman
Bianca
Garcia (Bravo HS) placed
second in the 50-yard breaststroke, as she finished
in 36.08.
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