Men’s swimming and diving: UCI men finish first

UC Irvine earned 757 points to place first in the UC San Diego

Triton men’s swimming and diving invitational Saturday.

UC San Diego (564) took second, followed by North Coast Aquatics (235)

and Cal State Northridge (217).

The Anteaters placed first in eight of 28 events. Hazem Amr, Ajamu

Palmer, Attilla Szilagyi and Gonny Shimura teamed up to win the 200-yard

freestyle relay in a time of 1:27.78.

Suruk Pattanasinth (1:58.76) was the top finisher in the 200

individual medley while Shimura (1:54.08) took first in the 200

backstroke and Brian Kim (2:09.27) won the 200 breastroke for UCI.

Shimura, Szilagyi, Amr and Conrado Tognetti combined to win the 400

medley relay in 3:35.03 and Anwar Burton, David Cox, Eric Tse and Bernie

Bermudez teamed to place first in the 200 medley relay with a time of

1:25.16.

Also placing first for the Anteaters was Shimura (53.07) in the 100

backstroke. Amr, Szilagyi, Shimura and Palmer were the top finishers in

the 400 freestyle relay with a time of 3:22.14.