Northridge Swim Teams Faring Well

BAKERSFIELD — Cal State Northridge, the only scruffy team competing in the California Collegiate Athletic Assn. swim championships, has put on a fashion-plate performance in the first two days of the meet.

CSUN, which treats the CCAA get-together a little like a baseball team does the final week of spring training, is the only school here that has not tapered off its workouts or shaved to reduce water resistance.

Its swimmers will do that in a couple of weeks, just before the NCAA Division II national championship meet in Buffalo, N.Y.

“We would like to do well here,” Northridge Coach Pete Accardy said Friday, “but we don’t put any real emphasis on it.”

Even so, the Matadors are making a respectable showing with two days left.

Northridge’s national champion women’s team holds a 345-279 lead over Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. The Northridge men are second, trailing national champion Bakersfield, 265-178.