Johnson City, Tenn---The women's indoor track and field team from Wayland Baptist won its second straight NAIA Indoor Title, edging out Azusa Pacific University, 68-67, on Saturday at the campus of East Tennessee State University. The championship is the fifth for the WBU women's program, a NAIA record.

A year ago, the Pioneer women held the chance for a championship in their own hands, needing at least a second place finish in the meet's final event, the 4x400-meter relay to capture the crown. The relay picked up the needed eight points and the national crown. This year, WBU had to watch from the sidelines and hope Azusa would finish no better than fourth in the relay event. Oklahoma Baptist took the relay victory, and APU placed fourth, giving Wayland its second straight one point victory over the school from Southern California.

Kimberly Smith, a sophomore, made it back-to-back national championships with wins in both the 60- and 200-meter dashes. Smith's time of 7.37 in the 60 was .05 seconds slower than her winning time of a year ago, but she bettered her mark in the 200 with a school-record time of 24.34, .01 second faster than in 2008.

Also on Saturday, sophomore Caroline Karunde captured the national crown in the 3,000-meters with a time of 9:42.60.

Other Pioneers to score points on the national meet's final day were sophomores Purity Biwott and Latanya Nation, senior Erin Britton, and freshman Bianca Grant. Biwott captured second place in the Mile Run with a time of 4:53.72. while Nation finished in a tie for second in the 60-meter hurdles with a school-record time of 8.86.

Britton picked up two points and earned All-American honors in the 1000-meters (2:57.55) and Grant scored a point and earned All-American honors with a sixth place finish in the triple jump (11.84m).

The WBU women had the lead after the first two days of competition with a win in in the 4x800-meter relay and two All-American finishes in the long jump.

The 4x800 team of Elva Pedroza, Erin Britton, Caroline Karunde and Purity Biwott captured its second straight title on Friday evening. The winning time of 8:58.54 broke the school-record of 9:05.27 the foursome established in February at Texas Tech and was a full 13 seconds in front of the second place team.

Nation and Grant finshed third and fourth in Friday's long jump competition with jumps of 5.82m (19-01.25) and 5.8m (19-00.5).

The Oklahoma Baptist women finished third in the team competition with 54 points and Simon Fraser University was fourth with 52 points.

On the men's side, the Pioneers accumulated 10 points on the final day of competition. Junior Kirby Dunn broke his own school-record in the 1000-meters with a time of 2:26.80 to place second, while the 4x400-meter relay team of Stanley Smith, Jerry-Lee Davis, Mario Scott and Caleb McLean finished fifth with a time of 3:15.82.