Lady Bison Have Strong Friday in Texas

LEWISVILLE, Texas – Oklahoma Baptist secured a meet record, two event titles and two automatic national qualifying marks Friday at the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Swimming and Diving Championships.
 
Celina Marquez set the meet record in winning the 100 backstroke in 53.70 with an automatic qualifying time for nationals. Suzanne Afchain (54.91) and Tammy Price (55.97) were second and fourth respectively with B standard marks. Faith Moss was eighth at 58.70 and Meili Hall scored in 15^th at 59.35.
 
OBU went 1-2-3 in the 100 breaststroke with Marizel Van Jaarsveld wining at 1:02.49, followed by Juliana Cifuentes at 1:02.73 and Miriam Avila at 1:04.49 – all B standard national qualifying times. Leslie White was seventh at 1:05.78, Victoria Fonville was 11^th at 1:07.29 and Julie Day placed 12^th at 1:07.82.
 
Faith Moss was second in the 200 butterfly with a B standard 2:04.85. Grace Clayton was 12^th at 2:12.70.
 
Genesis Veliz collected her second automatic qualifying mark of the meet, placing fourth in one-meter diving at 408.65. Cassidy Wright scored from eighth at 357.30 with Anna White (12^th, 290.50), Mikaela Pitsch (14^th, 242.95) and Leslie White (15^th, 188.55) also scoring in the event.
 
Van Jaarsveld, Afchain, Cifuentes and Avila placed third in the 800 free relay at 7:36.27. Jocelyn Martinez, Maddie Carson, Grace Clayton and Jamie Edwards finished 11^th in 7:59.64.
 
Martinez was 11^th in the 500 freestyle at 5:10.38 with Carson taking 16^th at 5:22.51.
 
Leslie White finished second in the 100 individual medley in 1:01.85, followed by Carleigh Sullivan in third at 1:02.04, Megan Conner in seventh and Amanda Buckwalter in eighth.
 
Team scores were not available as of 10 p.m. Friday.
 
The meet concludes Saturday with 1650 freestyle, 100 free, 200 back, 200 breast, 400 free relay and men's three-meter diving.