Strange bacteria floated around the L.A. Trade Tech College’s pool, the location where the meet was suppossed to take place.

However, that did not stop the meet from still going on. The meet was just moved to EC’s pool.

While the Warriors had no problem beating L.A. Trade Tech College last Friday, they were no match for Long Beach City College.

The men and women mean beat  LA Trade Tech College 179 to 70 and lost to Long Beach City College 16 to 97 and 166 to 81.

The Warriors will be splashing into their competition April 8th through the 9th at the Pasadena Invitational at Pasadena City College.

“This past weekend we had 21 new either lifetime or seasonal best times,” coach Corey Stanbury said.

Amanda Atkins took first in the 1000-yard freestyle with a time of 11:36.46, breaking the pool (not school) record which was 11.38, and smashed her second place opponent who swam a time of 12:46.69.

Brandon Gregory swam his lifetime best in the 1,000-yard freestyle, taking first with a time of 10:45.97, outswimming his 11:13.21 second place opponent.

“I thought my race was awesome,” Gregory said. “I’m really happy that I broke my record time.”

Alison Prizlow improved on her 100-yard breast stroke lifetime best with a time of 1:39.53, and Vince Fiamengo took third in the men’s 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:58.86 in a field of 7 swimmers.

“(Stanbury) really worked us hard in the workouts leading up to the meet,” Fiamengo said. “The team had a pretty solid performance, but I’m sure most of us were really hurting.”

Swimmer Noah Rubke also did well, swimming his best unshaved 200-yard back stroke and 100-yard backstroke with respective times of 2:10.79 and 58.75, taking second and third.

“Long Beach’s team is a lot stronger and has more depth and has some really fast sprint freestylers that we just don’t have,” Stanbury said. “But we’ve got the Pasadena Invite coming up this weekend to practice how we’re going to do warm-ups and hone down the various details of what we are doing for conference (regionals).”

While diver Amy Tran was unable to compete due to an injury, diver Michael Colbert dove unopposed on the 1-meter board, improving greatly on his previous score of 153.90 to 175.60.

“(Colbert) has a big chance to win a conference title. There is only one guy ahead of him in our conference. He has been improving by leaps and bounds and has been learning complicated dives,” Stanbury said. “This weekend, (Colbert) and the other divers have a chance to go against a lot of the other divers in Southern California, so this should be good practice for them.”