MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Reece Whitley swam the nation's fastest 200 breast time of the season (1:52.02) to highlight California's final day at the Minnesota Invitational on Saturday at Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center.
 
The Bears finished second overall in the four-day invitational with 759.5 points, placing behind champion Texas (1182 points). Click here for full results from Saturday's finals events. Whitley cut 1.77 seconds off his prelim time en route to the 200 breast victory in Saturday evening's final. His 1:51.02 finals performance was just 0.42 off his personal best.
 
Other top individual performances in Saturday's finals included a runner-up finish by Trenton Julian in the 200 fly (1:41.14) and third-place finishes by Daniel Carr in the 200 back (1:40.55) and Ryan Hoffer in the 100 free (42.42).
 
Pawel Sendyk earned a fourth-place finish in the 100 free (42.56) while Michael Jensen took sixth in the event (42.98) for 15 and 13 points, respectively. In addition to Carr taking third in the 200 back, Bryce Mefford touched in 1:43.76 for an eighth-place finish.
 
Cal closed out the invitational with a runner-up finish in the 400 free relay. Jensen, Sendyk, Carr and Hoffer finished in 2:50.59, with Hoffer recording the fastest split (42.07) in the freestyle.
 
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The Bears will remain in Minneapolis for a long-course time trial on Sunday morning, starting at 7 a.m. (PT).
 
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