OBU Gets Third at RMAC

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – (Full Results) Oklahoma Baptist finished third in both the men's and women's standings at their first-ever Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Swimming and Diving Championships Saturday.
 
After the meet, OBU divers Otto Lehtonen and Zak Rowton were named RMAC Diver of the Meet and Diver of the Year, respectively.

Victoria Fonville, Tammy Price, Celina Marquez and Miriam Avila Martinez won the 400 free relay in 3:26.43. Blandine Tantart, Juliana Cifuentes, Carleigh Sullivan and Suzanne Afchain placed 10^th at 3:31.97.
 
Price placed second in the 200 backstroke in 2:02.16. Afchain was fourth at 2:03.86, followed by Marquez at 2:06.78 in seventh and Faith Moss in ninth at 2:07.67.
 
Cifuentes was second in the 200 breaststroke at 2:19.31 and Avila Martinez was seventh at 2:21.98. Leslie White placed 14^th at 2:31.16 and Jamie Turlington scored 16^th at 2:32.20.
 
Fonville placed third in the 100 freestyle at 3:51.26.
 
Juana Mafla (19:01.32) and Jocelyn Martinez (10:05.60) placed 14^th and 15^th in the 1650 freestyle.
 
Anna White was ninth in the women's three-meter diving with a score of 302.65. Lydia Kellar was 13^th at 194.90.
 
JP Goyetche won the 100 freestyle in 44.14 with Marc Sambolin in second at 44.28. Chad Brandon was sixth at 45.28 and Austin Saunders was eighth at 48.30.
 
Felipe Ramirez won the 200 backstroke in 1:48.13 with Nicolas Brun in third at 1:50.79, Alex Mundt in fourth at 1:51.35 and Jonathan Stewart in 12^th at 1:56.74.
 
Goyetche, Mundt, Brandon and Sambolin placed second in the 400 free relay at 2:59.84. Drew Dickson, Ryan Walker, Daniel Brown and Saunders scored 10^th-place points at 3:04.57.
 
Thomas Peterson was seventh in the 200 breaststroke at 2:05.85 with Henry Contich in 10^th at 2:09.11, Josip Miskovic in 11^th at 2:10.82 and Jacob Usry in 15^th at 2:12.69.
 
In the 1650 free, Drew Dickson was 11^th at 16:57.11 and Stewart took 13^th at 17:16.41.
 
Over the course of the meet, OBU won nine men's events and four women's events. Goyetche claimed titles in the 100 free, 100 backstroke and 50 free and led off three other relay winners. Ramirez won the 200 backstroke and the 100 backstroke. Krisstijan Stunkovic won the 200 butterfly. Otto Lehtonen won the one-meter diving. Also for the men, Brandon and Hill were on two winning relay teams and Sambolin and Saunders were on one each.
 
For the women, Price won the 100 backstroke and was on two wining relays. Fonville and Marquez were on all three of OBU's championship relays and Tantart, Cifuentes and Avila Martinez were on one each.
 
OBU concludes its season at the US Central Zone Championships March 10.

2017 OBU RMAC Event Champions

 

Event	Competitors	Time/Score
Women's 400 Free Relay	Victoria Fonville-Tammy Price-Celina Marques-Miriam Avila Martinez	3:26.43
Women's 100 Backstroke	Tammy Price	55.43
Women's 200 Free Relay	Tammy Price-Blandine Tantart-Celina Marquez-Victoria Fonville	1:34.07
Women's 400 Medley Relay	Suzanne Afchain-Juliana Cifuentes-Celina Marquez-Victoria Fonville	3:44.78
Men's 100 Freestyle	JP Goyetche	44.14
Men's 50 Freestyle	JP Goyetche	20.00
Men's 100 Backstroke	JP Goyetche	48.25
Men's 1-Meter Diving	Otto Lehtonen	514.15
Men's 100 Butterfly	Felipe Ramirez	48.20
Men's 200 Backstroke	Felipe Ramirez	1:48.13
Men's 200 Free Relay	JP Goyetche-Chad Brandon-Marc Sambolin-Devyn Hill	1:20.24
Men's 200 Medley Relay	JP Goyetche-Chad Brandon-Austin Saunders-Devyn Hill	1:29.38
Men's 200 Butterfly	Kristijan Stunkovic	1:49.80