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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Four individual titles paced Colorado School of Mines on the third day of the 2021 RMAC Swimming & Diving Championships at Colorado Mesa University.

Meghan Slowey (500-free), Jorie Selig (100-breast), and Erin Taggart (200-fly) all won for the women, who took three of four individual races on Friday, while Robert Clayton finished his butterfly sweep with a 200-fly victory. 

The women also moved back into control of second with 435 points, well clear of Oklahoma Baptist; the men solidified their second-place status with 603.5 points.

The final day of the meet starts with women's prelims Saturday at 9 a.m.

500-FREE
Meghan Slowey made it a distance double as she slashed 10 seconds off her prelim time to win the 500-freestyle in 5:02.94, an NCAA B time. Slowey, who won the 1,000-free on Wednesday, had qualified fourth in 5:12.35. She was one of three Orediggers in the final as Olivia Lomax finished seventh in 5:14.38, and Sam Henney was eighth in 5:19.86. Hunter Stewart was 16th in 5:28.79. Rachel Fontan finished 18th in 5:34.95.

Ben Topper led five Oredigger men in the A final, swimming a fourth-place 4:42.85. Mines took the bottom five spots with Scott Reeder fifth (4:43.71), Joe Peak sixth (4:43.96), Cobi Wood seventh (4:47.50), and Henry Oberley eighth (5:00.41), and Austin Rich won the B final in 4:44.25 for ninth.

100-BACK
Four Orediggers swam in the B final of the 100-back led by Emma Neuroth, who finished 10th in 59.23. Sarah Bennett was 12th in 59.41, Kori Davis 15th in 1:00.54, and Sam Henney 16th in 1:04.53.

The Oredigger men had seven make it to finals including four in the A race led by Seth Krause, who had a fourth-place 49.75. He was joined by Jerry Birnbaum (5th, 49.84), Harry Smith (6th, 50.21), and Sam LaPrade (7th, 50.84). Gareth Svanda won the B final in 51.48, with Braden Hunt finishing 13th in 52.98 and Connor Wong 14th in 53.10.

100-BREAST
Jorie Selig turned in a blazing 1:03.79 NCAA B cut to win the 100-breaststroke by nearly a second over the field, breaking Mines' oldest women's record in the process. After qualifying second in 1:05.24, Selig snapped the 1:05.05 time set by Angel Forsling at the 2010 NCAA Championships to win her second gold of the meet after her 50-free win on Wednesday. Claire Lautman won the B final in 1:08.53 for ninth, with Nadia Smith placing 11th in 1:08.99.

Peyton Scherschel took a silver medal in the 100-breaststroke, swimming an NCAA B cut of 55.64 as the only Oredigger in the race. He cut his prelim time by nearly a second (56.61). 

200-FLY
Erin Taggart won the 200-fly in a new program record 2:06.85, out-touching CMU's Isabel Hansson by a tenth. Taggart went two seconds faster than prelims to break her own program record of 2:07.20 set earlier this season. Jules Hays closed fourth in 2:12.97 and Kailey Said was sixth in 2:17.43 as Mines took 48 points from the event.

Robert Clayton finished the butterfly double a night after winning the 100-fly with an NCAA B time of 1:48.96 to win gold. Clayton had broken teammate Charles Burroughs' 200-fly program record in prelims with a 1:48.91 time; Burroughs had the third-best time in the A final but was disqualified, while Max Mitchell bumped up to bronze in 1:52.30.

800-FREE RELAY
The women closed their banner night with a silver medal in the 800-free relay as Annie Osmun, Olivia Lomax, Meghan Slowey, and Lauren Mayo put together a 7:42.86 time. Osmun led the relay out in 1:53.34.

The men also earned silver as Birnbaum, Nick Delany, Topper, and Wood combined for a time of 6:53.15, with Birnbaum's lead-off split of 1:40.36 leading the way.