Ah yes, Greg Tull. His victories over Princetonsprint specialist Eric Osborn whetted theteam's--and the crowd's--appetite for more.

"Greg Tull was absolutely outstanding," Bernalsaid. "He won the events that Eric Osborn hasdominated for the past few years."

Princeton's Osborn, the meet record-holder forthe 50-meter freestyle and a perennial shoo-in inthe 100-meter, took the early lead in both races.

All Tull could do was swim strongly and hopethat Osborn would fade.

"The last time I beat Eric was in high school,"Tull said. "Nobody's beaten him in a long time."

But Tull came through with awesome efforts inboth races. In the 100-meter freestyle, he edgedOsborn by .07 seconds.

Tull wasn't the only one with the heroicbilling. In the 200-M backstroke, Harvard's PaulWatson dominated the field and swam for a berth inthe NCAA's.

He got it, with a time of 1:48.6--more than asecond below the NCAA qualifying mark.

"It was the best meet of my life," Watson said.

And not only for Watson, it seemed. Everyonepulled for each other in this baby. Everyonewanted to win for the team.

And this is a real team in every sense of theword. You could see it in the way they stayedtogether, cheered each other on, evenstretched together.

"The team is definitely beginning to gel,"Bernal said. "They are showing more maturity."

And after it was all over, they threw ajubilant Coach Bernal into the pool.

"Right now we're on cloud nine," Johnson said