All eyes on the Marine Hills Fish and The Tree senior boys and what did they do?

Win.

Capping off a great night of competition in the annual gala Seattle Summer Swim League All-City meet, where the Northern and Southern Division teams clash, ommy Cunningham, Kyle Christensen, Randy Hentges and Cameron Moak swam event 72 -- the 200 free relay -- fastest, helping Marine Hills stroke to a sixth place finish Tuesday, Aug. 5.

Trophy team! The top six teams, out of 16 SSSL teams from the Northern and Southern divisions combined, get trophies from All City. That is something MH head coach Wendy Neely did not get last year.

"No, I wasn't expecting it," said Neely. "I was up on the tennis courts so I was a little late getting down there (to accept her MH team's trophy)."

It was the best of all worlds from Marine Hills. That had a 137 point finish, 13.5 points ahead of Sand Point, a North Seattle Northern Division team. Twin Lakes' Penguins of Federal Way finished 10th.

"I didn't realize it, but we have a swimmer from all four Federal Way high schools," said Cameron Moak, from Federal Way himself, and the leadoff swimmer in this race that got this team off to a fast start. Kevin Munsch, of Kent is a close-to Olympic quality swimmer. He was the swimmer of the meet in 3A in 2008 and 2007 for Kennedy at the high school state championships. And Moak was not even a half body length behind Munsch after the first of four relay legs were completed.

"We all swam best times (splits)," said Moak, who swam with Randy Hentges, Kyle Christensen and Tommy Cunningham. The latter anchored this relay strong, holding off a fast Wedgewood swimmer, who was not as fast as Cunningham.

To win that race is fun, because all the other races are done and it's the last one and it's the big gunners.

Cunningham waved a "1" finger in the air after touching the wall in 1:30.29, to a Wedgewood swimmer's 1:10.86.

"We end on a good note," said Christensen, who, like Cunningham, has been swimming since he was in grade school with Marine Hills.

Great note.

What do wins like this do?

"Hopefully, it brings in more people," said Hentges. "We haven't had a trophy at All City for..."

For how long?

"Quite a while," said Hentges.

"More people," as Hentges said refers to the fact that Marine Hills gave up 70 some points this year to every dual meet team because of a lack of swimmers in some of the total 72 events in a dual.

"We have a lot of talent, not a lot of depth," said Moak.

This multi-schools group of Marine Hill's swimmers won the 200 medley too, getting into the wall at 1:42.20, ahead of Kent's team, led by All City extraordinaire Munsch, who won the 100 IM by nearly four seconds over his nearest competitor, D'Voreax Cann of Twin Lakes, 52.91 to 56.24.

So Munsch was good, but so was Cann. Actually, "the Canns were good' is a better way to put it. D'Voreax's sister, Scarlett, won the 100 free, flashing her brilliant speed, 53.84 to beat Northern Division foe Jayme Swain's 54.75.

D'Voreax competed in the closest race of All City besides little eight-year old Marine Hills dynamo, Carter Blunden, who took three individual firsts. He took the 25 butterfly in 16.65 to second-place Zarek Rushevics of Aqua Club, and Blunden won the 25 free in 15.12 to 15.50 and Blunden won the 25 breast in a thriller, 21.28 to second's 21.29 to third's 21.41.

Noting Blunden's All City qualification meet swims at the Southerns Meet a few days before All City on July 30, Blunden had two firsts in that but also one second. And it was in the 25 breast. He lost to David Ritscher 22.88 to 24.00. So, this time he shattered his own personal best by over a second and a half plus he beat Ritscher, who took third.

D'Voreax was in one of the two closest races. He just plowed through the water, groping for handfuls of water in a windmill whirring motion in trying to upset Lakeridge swimmer Paul Jovanovich, also a Kennedy swimmer but swimming for Renton's Lakeridge club for SSSL.

D'Voreax was seeded third coming in, but took second in the breast at All City, 24.34 to 24.35.

You had the lead throughout the race until the very end?

"Yeah, he was fast," said D'Voreax.

Cann had his fastest time of his individual races but not his fastest time, which was done in a relay split of the same 50 fly race.

"I swim faster when people are counting on me," said Cann.

D'Voreax is a 16-year-old, too, to note, in a age group where he is swimming against older swimmers up to age 18. So his efforts were exemplary for Twin Lakes. His 50 back win was in 25.80, ahead of White Center area swim club Arbor Height's Jeff Yeabsley in 26.33.

Also, swimmer Tanner Franklin took first in the boys 13-14 50 breast in 33.00 with teammate Reid Collins right behind in 33.20. That was a 1-2 punch for the Twin Lakes team of Lucas Willers. Noah Willers was second in the 50 free in 1:21.62 for 9-10 boys. Kelly Erickson, in 15-18 girls, just a 16-year-old, took second in 27.23, just behind the first-place time of 27.12.

Other great notable efforts came from MH's Kenna Ramey, who as an 11 year old, is in her off year. That is, she swims against 12 year olds in the 11-12 age bracket and notched two firsts. She won the 50 free in 26.77 and the 50 fly in 29.31.

"Just a huge effort. She's a very gifted, talented athlete," said Neely.

One other swimmer getting mention is Mathias Oh, who was seeded fourth in the boys 11-12 50 fly, but took first in 31.63.

"Almost everybody seeded lower moved up," said Neely.

It was a great meet with swimmers like Christensen, Cunningham and Moak swimming in their last races of the SSSL, graduating from high school. Cunningham's swimming efforts and dedication to SSSL Marine Hills team and also the King year-round program and swimming at Decatur High School, has earned scholarship performances at the University of Washington this coming Fall.

Happy for those boys, they meant a lot to the team?

"Yeah, they are good. It's only my third season coaching the team," said Neely. "I enjoy their presence. I'm sad for them to leave but happy at the same time."

Cunningham won the 50 free, going a 22.23 ahead of Jovanovich's 22.44 and Carl Longton, the anchor leg of Wedgewood's 200 free team that Cunningham out-raced for the right to swagger in the pool a little with a "1" raised high as people like Munsch came over to talk and congratulate him.

They deserved it. Not all the places get mentioned in the end, but they all deserve a big "great job" for their efforts in this meet and dropping time and working hard at a sport that is not a real easy one to do. It requires a lot of effort and work.

Great job.