LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Izzy Doud captured the three-meter dive by just two points and the 200-yard medley relay team won by just .15 in program-record time, as the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps women's swimming and diving team opened with a couple of first-place finishes to take a 41-point after the first of four days at the SCIAC Swimming and Diving Championships on Wednesday at the East Los Angeles College Swim Center. 

CMS has 147 points after the first day, with Caltech second with 106, Chapman third with 103 and Pomona-Pitzer fourth with 102. 

The Athenas earned a victory in the 200-yard medley relay, with Annika Sharma, Milan Manfredi, Mackenzie Mayfield and Madeleine Kan edging out Pomona-Pitzer's quartet 1:42.21 to 1:42.36. Sharma won the opening backstroke leg by just .12, and Mayfield won the butterfly leg by just over a half-second to enable CMS to hold on for the narrow win.  

The final time of 1:42.21 took .7 seconds off the program record of 1:42.91, which was set a year ago at the SCIAC Championships. Sharma also swam the backstroke leg last year, while Mayfield swam the breaststroke, with Sun Young Byun and Annette Chang swimming the final two legs. 

Doud finished with 430.85 points to edge Jana Woo of Caltech with 428.85 in a battle that came right down to the final dive. Alexis Romero finished fourth and Meilan Uyeno was fifth for the Athenas, which picked up 49 key points to start the meet. 

The 800-yard freestyle relay team of Byun, Avalon Sanders, Allison Nguyen and Katy Shaw had the fifth-fastest time in CMS history with a 7:34.53, but earned second behind the Sagehens.

Day two will get underway tomorrow morning with prelims in the 500 free, the 50 free and the 200 IM, with the 200-yard freestyle relay also taking place in the finals session in the evening.