LA MIRADA, Calif. --- Biola hosted the women's squads of CSU East Bay and Azusa Pacific on Saturday morning for a three-way dual meet. East Bay swam straight through the competition winning both of their individual contests, while Biola defeated APU to go 1-1.
 
Christine Tixier and Abby Blake were the standout swimmers for the Eagles, winning the 200-butterfly and the 1,650-freestyle, respectively.
 
"I thought Christine's swim in the 200 was great, I was also excited to see Abby do so well in the 1,650, because she does not get a chance to swim that event very often," said Head Coach Eddie Shepard.
 
Blake swam an 18:10.01 in the 1,650, eight seconds faster than when she won the same event at a meet against Alaska-Fairbanks earlier this season. She cruised into the win today, beating the second place swimmer by 12 seconds.
 
Tixier's win in the 200-butterfly is her second win in three tries this season. She recorded a 2:12.79 to drop her season-best by three seconds. It was her ninth individual event win this season.
 
Despite a tough 192-74 loss to CSU East Bay the Eagles' managed to get some revenge over APU, defeating the Cougars 146-124. The win avenges a loss to the Cougars in Biola's first dual meet of the season.
 
"I was very excited to do so well against APU," said Shepard. "They're a tough squad that beat us earlier in the year. We had a lot of swimmers who were worn down and tired because of all our training, but it was great to see how well we could do even when tired."
 
CSUEB's swimmers were the stars of the meet, winning all but the two events Biola took.
 
Alyssa Roden won the diving event for the second consecutive week. She took first place in the one-meter dive with a 184.95, an identical score to her win last weekend.

Biola has three weeks off and resumes their dual meet schedule Feb. 1 when they host Concordia and Azusa Pacific.
 
"We are definitely going to work real hard over the next few weeks," said Shepard. "I saw a few things we are going to need work on, and then after that we will rest up a little bit to try to make a big push. "