Cal Golden Bears Dominate TYR Pacific Invitational

ROSEVILLE, California, October 20. FOR the second day in a row, the California men's and women's swimming teams dominated the TYR Pacific Invitational.

The men won eight more events to finish with 1,435.50 points, compared to 791.50 points for host Pacific, and 361.00 points for UC Davis. The Golden Bears won 14 of the meet's 16 events over the two day affair.

To start off Saturday, Cal's 200 free relay of seniors Joe Whittington (20.87), Mark Eckert (21.09), Richard Hunter (21.13) and Dominic Cathey (21.45) placed first with a time of 1:24.54. Individually, junior David Russell captured both 100 back (49.18) and 200 back (1:51.42), and also swam the third leg of the Bears' victorious 800 free relay. Other members of Cal's 800 free relay, which won in a time of 6:58.24, were senior Dominik Meichtry, senior Louis Vayo and senior Michael Jafari.

Miechtry was the winner of 500 free in a time of 4:37.44 after winning the 200 free (1:41.44) on Friday. Other Saturday highlights included senior William Copeland placing first in the 100 free (45.48), senior Jernej Godec winning the 100 fly (50.39) and sophomore transfer Sean Mahoney placing first in the 200 breast (2:06.36). Mahoney, a native of Rio Vista, Calif., is a transfer from West Virginia. Godec had won the 50 free (20.97) on Friday as well.

On the women's side, Cal's final score of 808.5 was 182 points better than second-place Oregon State, followed by University of the Pacific, Nevada and UC Davis.

In the 100-yard freestyle, Hannah Wilson touched the wall .08 ahead of fellow Bear Tara Thomas with a winning time of 51.82. Thomas got a first-place finish of her own in the 100-yard butterfly, swimming a 55.30 to pace four teammates who followed.

Lauren Rogers had a winning time of 56.85 to edge teammate Dana Vollmer by .26 seconds in the 100-yard backstroke, while Lauren Boyle took the 500-yard freestyle event (4:57.31) by 2.32 seconds over teammate Sara Sun.

Other individual winners were Emily Silver, with a 2:03.69 time in the 200-yard IM; and Alexandra Ellis, whose 2:20.62 time won the 200-yard breaststroke.

The Bears won both relay events of the day, coming first, second and third in the 200-yard freestyle, led by the 1:34.98 time of Silver, Amanda Larson, Amanda Sims and Boyle, who barely took the race by .04 seconds; and winning the 800-yard freestyle in a time of 7:28.36 thanks to the efforts of Thomas, Wilson, Sun and Madison Kennedy.

Special thanks to Cal-Berkeley for contributing this report.

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