Pirates turn the Saddleback Pentathlon into an Orange Coast

College spectacular

Orange Coast College’s women’s swim forces made shambles of the

Saddleback Pentathlon Friday with a domination which bordered on

unbelievable at Saddleback College.

The Pirates, led fly Sherry Tsai, went 1-2-3-4 in individual

overall scores, and added 6-7-9 to the equation to turn the meet

simply into an OCC intrasquad meet.

Tsai was first in every event, winning the 50-yard freestyle in

24.56, the 50 backstroke in 27.04, the 50 breaststroke in 32.57, the

50 butterfly in 26.08 and the 100 individual medley in 59.03.

Her combined times for the five events 12.5 seconds better than

runner-up Sara Natamzio of OCC, who was second in four events with

times of 26.12, 30.33, 33.17, 27.53 and 1:04.63, respectively.

Orange Coast’s Kimberly Frith, who finished third overall at

3:04.41, broke up Natamzio’s string of seconds with a runner-up

finish in the 50 free. Frith’s times were 25.677, 30.41, 35.55, 28.14

and 1:04.64.

Rounding out the top four was OCC’s Sarah Mitchell, who went

26.82, 30.40, 36.41, 28.58 and 1:05.68, respectively.

Ashley Lowden and Jennifer Nelson went 6-7 for OCC’s women, and

Vanessa Lara was ninth.

Others in the field of 54 were Shannon Maxfield (14th), Erica

Nicholson (17th), Kim Doll (19th), Amber Edoff (25th), Stephanie Wood

(28th), Rebecca Robb (33rd) and Amber Brawley (34th).

In men’s competition, Coast’s Matt Henry finished fourth overall,

with Billy Swanson, Billy Jony, Tyson Monohan and Paul Frankenberger

going 6-8-9-10.

Frankenberger posted a second-best 50.19 in the 100 free and Jony

was fourth in 51.81.

Wong was first in the 100 breast at 1:02.94 and Henry went 1:05.83

for fifth.

Henry and Jony went 3-5 in the 100 fly with times of 56.88 and

57.39, and Jony and Monohan went 2-6 in the 100 back with times of

59.17 and 1:01.39.