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Cross Country:
Anteater Women's Team Wins Title of Asics/UCI Invitational
Sept. 6, 2008
IRVINE, Calif. --- The UC Irvine women's cross country team, led by senior Laura Olvera's first-place finish, won the title of the Asics/UCI Invitational for the second straight year at the Anteater Recreation Center Fields Saturday. UCI, in its season opener, finished with 51 points, followed by UCLA (84) and Loyola Marymount (109) in the 14-team race. Olvera covered the 5,000-meter course in 17:24.00. Senior teammate Candice Chavez placed third in 17:43.80 as Tara Erdmann of Loyola Marymount was second in 17:36.60. A trio of seniors rounded out UCI's top five as Samantha Costantini was sixth (17:53.90), Erinn Kim 19th (18:37.60) and Lauren Chramosta 22nd (18:42.20). Sophomore Katherine Nielsen placed 24th (18:44.50), senior Kendall Bruton was 37th (19:00.80), junior Emily Romo 42nd (19:04.60) and senior Megan Fairley 46th (19:07.50) in the 155-runner field. Senior Nick Mosey and junior Colin Hacker of UCI finished 1-2 in the men's race. Mosey recorded a time of 25:14.30 and Hacker 25:21.50 over the 8,000-meter course.
Senior Rusty Whisman placed 12th in 25:53.90, freshman Rex Nelson was 19th (26:07.50), and freshmen Chris Proffitt (26:37.90) and Danny Kalinowski (26:40.80) were 35th and 36th, respectively. Senior Solomon Tesfaye finished 50th in 27:11.90, freshman Nick Osborne was 54th (27:16.40) and sophomore Victor Bonilla 57th (27:23.00) in the 135-runner field. UCLA won the men's team title with 29 points, UCI was second with 61 and Cal Poly third with 70. Both Anteater teams will train at Mammoth this next week and return to action Sept. 27 at the Stanford University Invitational. |
