With their two South Coast Conference wins on Friday at the Falcon Aquatic Center, the Cerritos College men's swimming team finished their regular season with a 6-1 record. The Falcons, who will swim in the Pasadena Invitational next Friday, earned wins over both Chaffey College (198-73) and Los Angeles Trade-Tech College (221-35) in their final South Coast Conference meet.

On the day, Cerritos won 14 of the 15 events, with six different swimmers earning first place finishes in at least one individual race. Freshmen Isiah Gayton (Whittier HS) and Jason Ly (Villa Park HS) both won all three of their individual races, while Ly also swam the first leg of the winning 200-yard medley relay race.

Ly was joined by sophomores Marlon Moreno (Virgen del Rosario, Venezuela) and Joshua Owens (Kennedy HS), along with freshman Angel Rojas (Fray Luis Amigo, Venezuela) to easily win the 200-yard medley relay. The day ended with Albert Kim (Cerritos HS), Daniel Loeza (Hamilton HS), Diego Lucas (Warren HS) and Daryl Da Silva (Cerritos HS) recording a time of 3:33.55 to edge Chaffey in the 400-yard freestyle relay.

Gayton added a first place finish in the 1000-yard freestyle with a time of 10:54.48, which was 21 seconds ahead of his closest competition. He also blazed his way past the rest of the field in the 500-yard freestyle and recorded a time of 5:14.03 to win by 12 seconds. He was tested in the 200-yard butterfly by Orion Jorgensen of Chaffey and edged him by one second with a time of 2:11.00.

Ly earned wins on both of the backstroke races and opened with a time of 58.18 to hold off Kim, who took second place in 1:00.32, but he was untested in the 200-yard backstroke with a seven-second win, as he touched up in 2:08.59. His third win of the day came in the 200-yard IM and pulled out a win over Brett Rohde of Chaffey. Ly finished the race in 2:071.7, with Rohde right behind in 2:08.15.

Winning a pair of races was Rojas, who captured the 50-yard freestyle in 22.54 and was followed closely by teammates Owens (22.64) and Moreno (22.73), while the same order finished the 100-yard freestyle. Rojas posted a time of 49.73, which was just head of Owens time of 49.77, with Moreno in third place at 52.11. Owens did win the 100-yard butterfly in 54.35, which was just head of Rojas and his time of 55.04, with DaSilva in third at 1:00.46. Moreno collected a first place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:02.50, while sophomore Fernando Lua (Gahr HS) finished in 2:03.19 to win the 200-yard freestyle, which was right ahead of Angel Contreras of Chaffey. Freshman Nicholas Silos (Servite HS) compiled 156.15 points to win the 1-meter and 3-meter diving competition.

Photos by Daryl Peterson