SWARTHMORE, Pa. — Tim Schoch raced past the NCAA national championship's automatic qualifying standard in the 800 meter run Friday night at the Tuppany Twilight Last Chance Meet, leading a quartet of Haverford College track & field athletes who surpassed qualifying standards for the national meet.

Schoch's time of 1 minute, 50.45 seconds from Friday night is the third-fastest time in the country for Division III men and is a new personal best for the junior who had already posted an NCAA provisional time in the event earlier in the outdoor season. He also owns an automatic qualifying time in the 1,500.

Three other Fords, Eric Arnold and Lucas Fuentes for the men and Emily Lipman for the women, achieved provisional times in their respective events at the Tuppany meet.

Arnold clocked a personal-best time of 3:50.73 in the 1,500 streaking to the sixth-fastest D-III time in the country, and Fuentes posted the nation's 15th-fastest time in the 3,000 meter steeplechase by crossing the finish line Friday night at Swarthmore College in a time of 9:12.77, also a personal best.

Lipman ran to her NCAA provisional cut in the 10,000 with a season-best time of 36:41.62 which is the 22nd-best time among D-III women in the event this spring.

The 2011 NCAA Division III men's and women's outdoor track & field national championship meet is scheduled to run from May 26-28 at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio.