BAKERSFIELD, Calif. ? Despite double victories from three swimmers, the CSUB women's swim team couldn't hold off UC San Diego as the Tritons edge the Roadrunners 159?136 Saturday at the Hillman Aquatics Center in Bakersfield.

Although she swam under the weather, sophomore Astrid Amsallem dominated in the 1,000 free, winning by more than 21 seconds in 10:59.32. She still still had enough petrol in the tank to out touch teammate Leah Faber by 23/100ths of a second to win the 500 free in 5:20.65.

Team captain Lexi Kelly also pulled off a double. She just beat UCSD's Carianne Cunningham to the wall to win an exciting 200 butterfly in 2:13.25. She came back to win the final individual event of the day by posting a four?second victory over UCSD's Tori Edmiston in the 200 individual medley with a time of 2:15.82.

CSUB's final double came in diving, where sophomore Victoria Kreutz was victorious on both the one and three meter boards. She started the day by scoring 227.50 to win on the low board before scoring 249.00 to post a convincing win on the three?meter board.

“We had a lot of people battling injury and illness this week and, considering what they battled through I thought it was a monumental performance,” said CSUB Head Coach Pat Skehan. “There were so many gutsy performances that I hate to single out just one, but even though she was ill, Astrid was brilliant once again on a day when most athletes wouldn't even have come to the pool.”

CSUB will take two weeks off before hosting UC Santa Barbara on Nov. 17.