Brittany Sasser of Amherst College twice lowered her own record in the 100-yard backstroke, and Kenyon College continued to run away with the team scoring after day two of the 26th annual NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships at the University of Houston's Campus Recreation and Wellness Center Natatorium on Friday.

Sasser clocked a :55.16 in the preliminaries and won the championship in :54.72. She had won the 2006 event in :55.20 to set the old record.

Kenyon, going for its 21st national team title, holds a 113-point lead over second-place Amherst through 13 events. The Ladies, who last won the national title in 2004, have scored 363 points to 250 for Amherst, 214 for Calvin College and 191 for Emory University, the defending national champion.

Kenyon added to its scoring with the title in the 200-yard medley relay, and Tracy Menzel took the win in the 100-yard breaststroke.

Emily Lesher of Nazareth College set the night's first record with her 4:22.75 clocking in the 400-yard individual medley, mainly on the strength of her :57.99 freestyle split. The previous mark of 4:23.30 by Kenyon's Kathryn Petrock in 1997 had been the oldest record in the championships.

Becky Weima of Calvin successfully defended her 2006 title in the 200-yard freestyle in 1:49.79.

Amherst capped the night's events with a 7:29.50 clocking in the 800-yard freestyle relay, topping Kenyon's old record of 7:33.38 set in 2004.

The Division III women's championships, hosted by the University of Houston and the Harris Country-Houston Sports Authority, continues through Saturday. The Division III men's championships will be held March 15-17, also at the UH Campus Recreation and Wellness Center.

                                Women - Team Scores                             
              Place School                                          Points
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                 1 Kenyon College                     KEN             363  
                 2 Amherst College                    AMH             250  
                 3 Calvin College                     CALV            214  
                 4 Emory University                   EMORY           191  
                 5 Denison University                 DEN             188  
                 6 Williams College                   WILL            147  
                 7 Washington University (Mo)         WASH            124  
                 8 Middlebury College                 MIDD            110  
                 9 Johns Hopkins University           JHU             103  
                10 Hope College                       HOPE             85  
                11 Wheaton College (Il)               WH-IL            67  
                12 Mary Washington, University of     UMW              63  
                13 Colby College                      COLBY            62  
                14 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps             CMS              55  
                15 UW Stevens Point                   UWSP             44  
                16 Suny New Paltz                     SNP              43  
                17 Whitworth College                  WHIT             41  
                18 Washington and Jefferson           W & J            36  
                19 Nazareth College                   NAZ              34  
                20 Case Western Reserve               CWRU             32  
                21 Franklin & Marshall                F&M              28  
                22 UC Santa Cruz                      UCSC             27  
                23 UW La Crosse                       UWL              26  
                24 Redlands, University of            REDL             24  
                24 Gustavus Adolphus College          GAC              24  
                26 M.I.T.                             MIT              23  
                27 Tufts University                   TUFTS            20  
                28 Wesleyan University                WES              18  
                29 Depauw University                  DEP              17  
                30 Suny Fredonia                      FRED             16  
                30 Springfield College                SPFLD            16  
                32 Kalamazoo College                  KZOO             14  
                32 Bates College                      BATES            14  
                34 Lake Forest College                LFC              13  
                34 Vassar College                     VASS             13  
                36 St. Olaf College                   OLAF             12  
                37 New Jersey, The College of         TCNJ             11  
                38 St. Marys College (Md)             SMCM              9  
                39 Albion College                     ALB               7  
                40 Hiram College                      HIRAM             5  
                40 Carleton College                   CARL              5  
                40 Trinity University (Tx)            TRIN              5  
                43 Allegheny College                  ALLEG             3  
                43 Centre College                     CENTR             3  
                45 Linfield College                   LINF              2  
                45 Swarthmore College                 SWAR              2  
                45 Carnegie Mellon                    CMU               2  
                48 Rochester, University of           UR                1  
                48 New York University                NYU               1