Bloomington's Monica Drake and Normal Community's Caitlin Hamilton each will swim in two finals today at the IHSA girls swimming and diving state meet at Evanston.

Both girls, who are competing for their high school teams for the first time as seniors, qualified during Friday's preliminaries. The top six in swimming events advance to today's finals. The second six swim in the consolation finals.

Hamilton was third in the 200-yard freestyle in 1 minute, 51.11 seconds, edging Drake by .03 seconds.

Drake was third in the 100 freestyle with a Pantagraph area record 50.88, and Hamilton was second in her other event, clocking 4:53.93 in the 500 freestyle, the No. 2 time in area history as was her 200 freestyle time.

University High's Emily Hovren was 12th in the 100 freestyle and is in today's consolation finals. She was 16th in the 200 freestyle.

Intercity divers Shelby Brown of NCHS and Kelly Steffen of Bloomington qualified from the eight-dive preliminaries to today's three-dive finals. Brown compiled a score of 276.70 for seventh, while Steffen was 11th with 265.50 points.

Other area qualifiers who did not advance include U High's Kathleen Knight (43rd in 200 IM; 20th in 100 butterfly), NCHS' Morgan Buechele (32nd in 100 breaststroke) and U High's 400 freestyle relay, which was 21st.