LA JOLLA, Calif. - The UC San Diego swimming and diving teams defeated Grand Canyon and Incarnate Word on Sunday afternoon at Canyonview Pool. The UCSD women's team was headlined by Alex Henley notching an NCAA automatic time in the 200 fly while Jessica Ferguson won two individual events. The UCSD women defeated UIW 220-74 and defeated GCU 229-54. On the men's side, Daniel Perdew helped the Tritons to a 189-109 win over UIW and a 197-84 win over Grand Canyon.

"We didn't have our best meet today but it was good enough to win and anytime you can compete against people you're going to see at the NCAA meet, it's beneficial," said head coach Scott McGihon. "Kailey Makuta stepped up and won two events with Beth Dong on the sidelines. For the men, Daniel Perdew had his best in-season times in both the 50 free and 100 fly and Patrick Cohen qualified for nationals on the one-meter board."

The UCSD 200 medley relay team of Anju Shimura, Mercedes O'Brien, Ferguson and Amber Tan won with a time of 1:48.89, while UCSD's "B" team finished second. Henley's 200 fly time came in 2:05.77, nearly five full seconds ahead of second-place. Ferguson won the 100 flly with a time of 59.50 and was part of UCSD's two winning relay teams.

Makuta won the 1000 free with a time of 10:46.54 and the 500 free with a time of 5:14.94.

On the men's side, Perdew won the 100 fly with a time of 51.25 and finished just .02 seconds short of first in the 50 free with a time of 21.03.

UCSD's 200 medley relay team of Julius Espiritu, Juan Pablo Carrillo, Perdew and Todd Langland finished first with a time of 1:35.01. Shaun Stringer won the 200 fly with a time of 1:55.34 and Todd Langland won the 100 free in 46.71.

Jonathan Masehi-Lano won the 200 breast in 2:07.08 while Jereme Barnett-Woods claimed the 500 free with a time of 4:41.13.

UC San Diego is back in action on Saturday, January 16 when it hosts the University of San Diego at 12:00 p.m.