Division 2 Review: Oct 22-23

The Adams State Women joined their Male counterparts atop the Division 2 Cross Country Rankings. Some teams ran some regular season non-traditional races this past weekend (10ks, 3 milers) with some impressive marks. The Western State Men had an intrasquad meet and showed again they have some depth.

Bison Stampede  Harding #10

Daniel Kirwa, first in 14:51, led his team to a dominating victory by placing 8 in the top 10.  Philip Biwott placed number 2 for Harding in a time of 15:10. According to the Harding website the course was 3 miles in length.

Division 2 Cross Country Challenge Men | Women  Shippensburg: Men #6 Women #3

Patrick Fullerton of Stonehill took the individual honors in 25:35 over Shippensburg’s Matt Gillette. The rest of the Raiders top five-followed Gillette across the line to contribute to the team’s low score of 20 points.

Neely Spence of Shippensburg won in impressive fashion, 20:57, and led her Lady Raiders to an impressive finish. Mary Dell, of Shippensburg, was the next finisher in 22:00. The Lady Raiders scored an impressive 20 points to mirror the men.

UW-Eau Claire Lake Wissota Cross Country Invitational Minnesota Duluth #7

Minnesota Duluth’s Taylor Marble finished 8^th overall in 19:29 to lead her team to a 3^rd place finish. Kayla Johnson, a freshmen, placed 2^nd on the team and 13^th overall in 19:38 to contribute to the Lady Bulldogs finish.

Lock Haven River Run  LockHaven #8

 Nick Hilton ran 25:02 to take the individual honors and lead 4 fellow Bald Eagles across the finish to secure a 16-75 win over the nearest team finisher, Indiana University of PA.  Nathan Zondlo placed second in 25:06 and the Bald Eagles put 7 under 25:30 with a split 1-7 pack time of 28 seconds.

Marauder Open University of Mary #10

Melissa Agnew placed first running 21:44 and lead 6 fellow U-Mary ladies across the finish. The U-Mary women not only had a perfect score but also had a 1:44 1-7 pack time capturing the first 7 spots.

Mountaineer Open Men| Women Western State Men #2 Women #6

 The men had an intrasquad meet splitting into three teams. Wsc Slate, Crimson and freshmen. There were also a few unattached runners I presume to be athletes on the team. Gabe Proctor lead Wsc Slate to the team victory covering the 8425-meter course at altitude in 27:50 (26:30 through 8k) Sean Brown fellow Wsc Slate member placed 2^nd in 27:57.

Western State women faced off against Mesa State. Alexis Skarda of Mesa took the individual honors in 18:22. Lauren Kleppin of Western State took second in 18:38 and led 3 other women across the line to capture the team title 20-44

Highlands Cross Country Jam Men| Women Adams State: Men #1 Women#1

Univeristy of New Mexico’s Moses Kirui took the individual honors in 25:02. Brandon Birdsong ran #1 for the Grizzlies in 25:35. Steady #1 Ryan McNiff ran #3 finishing in 25;47. The Grizzlies narrowly beat the New Mexico Highlands Men, 24-32.

The Grizzly women ran strong in their first week at #1. Ashley Quintana who placed 1st in 22:10 led them. Fellow teammate Cassie Mitchell was 3^rd in 23:31

Western Washington Invitational

Western Washington: Women #8 Men #11 Alaska Anchorage: Women #4 Men #9

The men covered 10 kilometers and Marko Cheseto of Alaska Anchorage won in 30:41. Fellow teammate Micah Chelimo placed second in 31:15 to help lead the Alaska Anchorage team to a win over Western Washington (33-65). Western Washington’s Jordan Welling was 3^rd overall in 31:25

Western Washington’s Sarah Porter took the win in 20:59. Miriam Kipng’eno and Ruth Keino of Alasak Anchorage both running 21:10 and 21:13 followed her closely finishing 2^nd and 3^rd. The Alaska Anchorage Women took a narrow win over Club Northwest (42-49) and the Western Washington Women placed 4^th overall with 88 points.

Conference Action

There was only one conference that took place this past week. The other 21 conferences take place the weekend of Nov 6/7^th. We will have a Conference Wrap up that week in place of the D2 Review.

Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association

Women: Brittney Killebrew and team mate Manuela Rigaud  of Winston Salen University went 1-2 in the Conference Championship running 19:40 and 20:01 respectively. The Winston Salem Women won a very narrow race over Virginia State University (34-35)

Men: Andrew Chebii and Aron Barnes of Winston Salem went 1-2 and ran 24:33 and 25:57 respectively. The Winston Salem Men took the team title with 26 points