With three individual wins from freshman Rodrigo Baca (Kennedy HS), and the second fastest time in school history in the 1000-yard freestyle, the Cerritos College men's swimming team split their three-way conference meet on Friday. The Falcons posted a 172-20 win over Los Angeles Trade-Tech College, while they suffered a 141-102 setback against host Pasadena City College. The team will compete in their final conference meet next Friday when they travel to Rio Hondo College and are joined by Long Beach City College.

Baca picked up his first place finishes in the 100-yard backstroke (56.97), 50-yard freestyle (22.39) and 100-yard butterfly (54.74). It marks the second straight week that Baca earned the trio of wins in a conference meet.

In the 1000-yard freestyle, freshman Colson Morrow (Long Beach Millikan HS) moved closer to breaking the school record with his time of 10:34.01 earning him a second place finish on the day. The school record of 10:26.80 was set by Matt Mendoza in 2009. Morrow also took second place in the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:27.79, while he swam the second leg of the 400-yard freestyle relay that came in first place at 3:41.00. He was joined by sophomore Billy Catton (La Quinta HS), freshman Matt Farias (Downey HS) and freshman Brett Buchan (Kennedy HS).

Freshman Josh Guzman (Warren HS) came in second place in the 200-yard IM at 2:16.80 and held off third place Morrow, who touched up in 2:16.91, while Guzman also was a second place finisher in the 500-yard freestyle at 5:22.55. In the 100-yard freestyle, Buchan (54.23) finished in third, with freshman Brian Luque (Salazar y Herrera, Colombia) taking fourth place in 56.02. Luque also came in third place in the 50-yard freestyle in a time of 24.49.