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Records fall in pool duel

Bermuda and the Best of the Visitors on Monday night at the BASA pool.A total of 12 meet records were bettered and in the process the Bermuda team was victorious, for the first time since 1989,

Bermuda and the Best of the Visitors on Monday night at the BASA pool.

A total of 12 meet records were bettered and in the process the Bermuda team was victorious, for the first time since 1989, by a score of 549 to 483.

There was a combination of individual events and relay races, with the final event of the evening a crescendo freestyle relay which featured eight swimmers from each different age groups.

Bermuda's Olympic swimmers were in fine form and were involved in six of the 12 meet records.

Ian Raynor led the way with records in the boys' over-15 50 metre butterfly in a time of 26.80 and in the 50 metre freestyle in 24.28. He was also part of two record relay teams, the 200 medley (1.49.26) and the 200 freestyle (1.38.76).

The team for the medley relay was Stanley Harris (backstroke), Chris Flook (breastroke), Raynor (butterfly) and Geri Mewett (freestyle).

The freestyle relay team that represented Bermuda in Barcelona -- Raynor, Mewett, Craig Morbey and Mike Cash -- bettered by more than six seconds the record set by a team from Washington D.C. in 1984.

Olympian Flook bettered the 50 metres breastroke record in a time of 28.99.

The other record set by the Bermuda swimmers was in the girls 15-and-over 200 metre relay, in which the team of Lauren Stent (breastroke), Jenny Smatt (butterfly), Jenny Gosling (butterfly), and Amanda Smith (freestyle), recorded a time of 2.10.72.

Nicholas Zecketts (12) of Atlanta set two new records in the boy's 11-12 division in the 100 metre individual medley (1.14.00) and in the 50 meters breastroke (37.47).

English visitor Lauren Stent, swimming in the 15 and over girl's backstroke, set a new record in a time of 31.14.

Both boys and girls Crescendo relay finals produced records with the victorious visiting girls' team turning in a time of 1.56.61 and the Bermuda boys finishing first in 1.48.42.

The 12 and under Bermuda boys medley relay team set a new record of 1.05.58.

RECORD-BREAKER -- Olympian Ian Raynor was in top form on Monday.