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Cross Country:
UC Irvine Competes at Stanford Invitational Saturday
Sept. 24, 2007
BACK IN ACTION AT STANFORD: The UC Irvine cross country teams return to action this Saturday (Sept. 29) in the 34th Stanford University Invitational at the Stanford Golf Course. The men's 8,000-meter race is scheduled to start at 4:15 p.m. with the women's 6,000 meters at 4:48 p.m. UCI WOMEN 9TH IN WEST REGION: The Anteater women's team is ninth in this week's West Region rankings. ANTEATER WOMEN'S TEAM WINS ASICS/UCI INVITATIONAL: The UC Irvine women's team opened the 2007 season by winning the title of the Asics / UCI Invitational Sept. 8 at the Anteater Recreation Center Fields. UCI finished with 41 points, Loyola Marymount was second with 82 and Cal Poly third with 84 in the 12-school field. Anteater junior Laura Olvera finished second of 123 runners with a time of 17:51.50 over 5,000 meters and was named Big West Conference Athlete of the Week. Candice Proctor was fourth (18:02.20), Samantha Costantini sixth (18:14.50) and Sara Mickelson placed 13th (18:32.90). Amber Gordon finished 16th in 18:45.20, Kendall Bruton was 20th (18:54.60) and Katherine Nelson 22nd (18:55.60) to round out UCI's top seven. The UCI men's team finished eighth with 206 points as Cal Poly was first with 39, Southern Utah second (101) and Loyola Marymount third (119). UCI's Colin Hacker finished 15th of 195 runners with a time of 25:08.40 over 8,000 meters. Sky Johnston was 23rd (25:33.40), Rusty Whisman 48th (26:20.20) and Adrian Doty placed 67th (26:47.30). Brian Brierly finished 68th (26:48.70), Aman Bhatia 71st (26:49.40) and George Morris 78th (26:56.20) to complete the Anteaters' top seven runners.
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