Tigers Post Top Times on Day Two of OEC Championship

Riverside City College kept pace on the second day of the Orange Empire Conference Championship on Friday and saw a meet and three school records broken.   

The Tigers still sit in third with 425 points, while Orange Coast College is holding onto first place with 558 team points.

Lennon Franklin posted the fastest time in the 100-yard backstroke, beating his opposition by three full seconds (50.85 seconds) and setting a new RCC record.

Zekiah Serrano won the 100-yard butterfly by over a second, clocking in at 48.75 seconds, which is the fastest time in RCC history.

RCC (Franklin, Jared Ladinez, Serrano, Yousef Nahali) won the 200-yard medley relay, clocking in at 1:30.68, which set a new meet record and a new RCC program record. The Tigers took second in the 800-yard free relay with a time of 6:57.86.

Ladinez won the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 55.42 seconds, more than a second faster than his opposition. Davis DeAnda also finished in the top five, touching the wall in 58.44 seconds.

Zachary McDonald took second on the 1-meter diving board after posting 187.00 points.

Nahali finished in sixth in the 200-yard free with a time of 1:47.92, while Alejandro Mondragon followed in seventh (1:49.48), beating out the eighth-place swimmer by less than .5 seconds.

The Tigers close out the OEC Championship on Saturday with the day's prelims starting at 9:30 a.m. back at Orange Coast College.