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Feb 6, 2010

Cal Lutheran holds off Poets in regular-season finale


Photo by: Paul Adams

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - The Whittier College men's swimming and diving team fought hard but fell shy of snapping its five meet skid as Cal Lutheran held of the purple and gold to earn a 128-101 win on Saturday morning in the regular-season finale for the two SCIAC rivals.

The first event of the day on the men's side was a sign of how competitive the meet would be. CLU held on by less than a second in the 400 Medley Relay to claim first-place honors.

The team of Juan Aguilar, Damon Chandler, Michael Eachus and John Adams finished in 3:48.99 while the Kingsmen took the event in 3:48.10.

Aguilar started the race for the Poets with a 59.31 in the Back. Chandler hit the water and erased a two second deficit with a 1:03.82 in the Breast but Cal Lu battled back over the final two legs to pull out the victory. Eachus swam a 55.95 in the Fly and Adams came in at 50.55 in the Free.

The Poets got back into the meet with a first and third place finish in the 200 Free. Will Jackson swam a 1:51.48 to earn top points in the event while Cameron Rehm finished just off the second place pace with a 1:52.56. Second place was timed at 1:52.41.

Chandler and Alex Perry went two-three in the 200 IM with times of 2:13.44 and 2:13.99, respectively, and Eachus, Tom Hyden and Aguilar went two-three-four in the 100 Fly.

Eachus swam a 57.12, Hyden a 59.05 and Aguilar a 1:00.73 to total nine points for Whittier in the event.

Aguilar and Eachus return to the top four in the 100 Back and were joined by Ryan Rock who finished fourth. Aguilar's 1:01.74 earned second place honors, Eachus' 1:06.56 was good enough for third and Rock came in at fourth in 1:08.63.

Rehm finished just off the winning pace in the 500 Free with a 5:05.08. The winning time was 5:04.47.

Chandler rounded out the individual events with a first place finish in the 100 Breast. He finished over two seconds ahead of the second place finisher with a 1:03.60.

Tyler Aisner took home top honors in the 1 Meter Dive with a total of 218.30 points. Second place had a point total of 151.10.

Aisner will return to action next weekend at the University of Redlands in the SCIAC Diving preliminaries and the rest of the Poets will head back into the water in two weeks for the 2009 conference championships at Belmont Plaza.